Joseph E Neuhaus

Practice Areas

Litigation; Africa; Antitrust; Energy & Natural Resources; Intellectual Property & Technology Litigation; International Arbitration and Global Dispute Resolution; Latin America; Mining & Metals; Oil & Gas; Project Development & Finance; Supreme Court and Appellate

Career

Joe Neuhaus joined Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in 1987 and became a partner in 1992. His practice is focused on international commercial litigation in both arbitral and court settings. His practice is focused on international commercial litigation in both arbitral and court settings. He is the former coordinator of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s arbitration practice and has served as counsel and arbitrator in numerous arbitral proceedings, including ad hoc proceedings, arbitrations administered under the rules of most international arbitral institutions and arbitrations involving sovereign entities. He also has served as counsel in a variety of arbitration-related disputes in court, as well as other commercial litigation and regulatory investigations.

Professional Memberships

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; International Bar Association Arbitration Guidelines and Rules Subcommittee, Co-Chair, 2020-2022 (responsible for revision of IBA Rules of Evidence); Private Sector Adviser on the United States Delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group on Arbitration, Vienna 2000, New York 2001, 2002 and 2006, Vienna 2010, New York and Vienna 2012-2016, New York 2018; Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Executive Committee member – current, Chair (June 2018 – June 2021),

Vice Chair (2005 – 2018), Program Co-Chair (2000-2005), Workshop Co-Chair (2000);

Board of Directors, CPR Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, 2016-2023;

Board of Directors, 2012-2016, Council, 2016-2023, American Arbitration Association;

Executive Committee, New York International Arbitration Center, 2012-2019;

Chair, International Commercial Dispute Committee of the New York City Bar Association (2013-2016), Member (2012-2013, 2016-present); Counsellor, American Society of International Law, 2016-2022; Member of the United States Delegation to UNCITRAL at its Eighteenth Session in Vienna at which the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration was adopted, 1985; Member of UNCITRAL Arbitration Expert Group, 2001; Adjunct Professor of Law, NYU Law School (teaching Professional Responsibility), January 2018-present; Chair, Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct (COSAC) of the New York State Bar Association (2010-2014), Member (2009-2010, 2014- present); Chair, Committee on Professional Ethics of the New York State Bar Association (2005-2008), Member (2001-2005, 2008-present); Member, Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics of the New York City Bar Association, 1996-1999, 2004-2007, 2009-2011; Member of the American Bar Association and American Society of International Law; Member, Columbia Law School Board of Visitors, 2013-present;

Member, American Law Institute, 2011-present.

Personal

Dartmouth College (AB, 1979); Columbia Law School (JD, 1982); Law Clerk to Hon. Carl McGowan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1982-1983); Hon. Lewis F. Powell, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court (1983-1984); Howard M. Holtzman, Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal (1984-1985).