Dr. Maximilian Clasmeier

Maximilian is an international associate in White & Case's International Arbitration Practice Group. He represents corporates and states in national and international commercial and investment arbitration as well as litigation proceedings and has experience working under the ICC, ICSID, DIS, UNCITRAL, and SIAC Rules. Maximilian regularly works with the Firm's Frankfurt office where he started his career before later relocating to Washington, DC after an almost two-year long secondment.

Prior to joining White & Case, Maximilian gained international commercial and investment arbitration experience with law firms in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Singapore. He has particular expertise in public international law, international investment law and dealing with matters of state sovereignty, having worked with a think-tank in Singapore, a state representation to the European Union in Brussels and the World Bank in Washington, DC. He is author of "Arbitral Awards as Investments – Treaty Interpretation and the Dynamics of International Investment Law" (Wolters Kluwer – 2017) and an active supporter of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition with judging experience at its international rounds. Since 2019, he has been serving as a peer reviewer for the ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal.

Maximilian has a particular interest in arbitration matters relating to East and Southeast Asia and understands the regional particularities. He is an active member of the Firm's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Group and in 2019 was admitted to the Panel of Arbitrators of the Thailand Arbitration Center (THAC).

Maximilian has studied law in Münster, Barcelona, Singapore and Düsseldorf, regularly publishes on international arbitration and has taught international investment law at Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf and at Thammasat University in Bangkok. He currently serves as Associated Expert at Leiden University's Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and its Tracing Inherent Powers project aiming to improve efficiency in states' treaty negotiations on the constitution and reform of international courts and tribunals.