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Prof Janet Walker
Position
Professor Janet Walker is a leading international commercial arbitrator based in London, Toronto, and Sydney.
Recipient of the CIArb Canada Award for Distinguished Service to Arbitration in 2018, she has been recognised regularly in the legal directories for her skill as an arbitrator since 2010, including in Who’s Who Legal and Chambers & Partners.
She is founding co-chair of CanArbWeek and she was a member of the ICCA2018 Sydney executive organising committee. She is chair of the ICC Canada Arbitration Committee, and a member of the boards of CIArb Canada and the International Construction Law Association. Janet is a founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Commercial Arbitration and she authors the main private international law text in Canada, the most cited private law work in the Canadian courts. For more than 20 years, she served as consulting and testifying expert on questions of judicial jurisdiction, the enforcement of judgments and applicable law in cross-border litigation.
Career
CURRENT POSITIONS
- ICC Canada Arbitration Committee Chair ICC Commission Member
- CanArbWeek Co-Chair
- Osgoode Hall Law School Distinguished Research Professor
- International Association of Procedural Law Hon Secretary General
- CIArb Canada Executive Board Member
- Max Planck Institute Luxembourg Scientific Advisory Board Member
- International Construction Law Association Board Member
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
- Arbitralwomen
- Asociación Latinoamericano Arbitraje
- Canadian Bar Association
- International Bar Association
- International Construction Law Association
- ICC Commission
- Juris Roster
- Society of Construction Law North America
- The Advocates’ Society
- Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society (formerly Arb Roundtable of Toronto)
- Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Arbitrator (former coach)
- Worshipful Company of Arbitrators, Freeman of the City of London
Languages
Janet has a good working knowledge of Spanish and French.
Education
2017 CIArb Chartered Arbitrator
2015 Legal Consultant, New York State Bar
2002 DPhil, Oxford University (Law) (MA, 2010)
1998 Bar of Ontario, Law Society of Upper Canada
1993 JD, Osgoode Hall Law School
1982 MA, York University
1979 BA (Hons), York University
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > International arbitration: arbitrators
Atkin Chambers is ‘first-class, a superb construction set’, many of whose members receive frequent arbitration appointments for their expertise in disputes concerning major energy projects across exploration and extraction, power plant construction and infrastructure as well as mining and major commercial and leisure developments, IT and transport infrastructure. Full-time arbitrators include Sir Robert Akenhead and Doug Jones 
. In addition to his counsel practice, Martin Bowdery KC is also a Deputy High Court Judge and was appointed to the ADGM Arbitration Centre’s Panel of Arbitrators. Janet Walker has over 20 years’ experience as sole, presiding and co-arbitrator in commercial and treaty investment arbitrations. In 2022, Stuart Catchpole KC was appointed to the panel of arbitrators of the BVI International Arbitration Centre.