CATHERINE ROGERS

CATHERINE ROGERS

Courses a.y. 2024/2025

Biographical note

Professor Rogers is a scholar of international arbitration and professional ethics at Bocconi University, with an appointment as a Research Proessor at University of California Law, San Francisco. Her scholarship focuses on the convergence of the public and private in international adjudication, the intersection of markets and regulation in guiding professional conduct, and on the reconceptualization of the attorney as a global actor.  

Prior to Bocconi, Professor Rogers taught at many universities around the world, including as Professor of Ethics, Regulation, and the Rule of Law at Queen Mary, University of London, at Pennsylvania State University, and at the Masters International Dispute Settlement (MIDs) Program in Geneva. 

Professor Rogers was a Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration. Among other appointments, she sits on the International Advisory Board of the Vienna International Arbitration Centre and the Oxford University Press Investment Claims Advisory Board. She co-chaired the ICCA-Queen Mary Task Force on Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration, and regularly engages in capacity-building activities to promote international dispute resolution and the rule of law in developing and emerging economies.


Research interests

My scholarship focuses on the convergence of the public and private in international adjudication, the intersection of markets and regulation in guiding professional conduct, and on the reconceptualization of the attorney as a global actor. 


Selected Publications

Rogers, Catherine
The World Is Not Enough: ethics in arbitration seen through the world of film
Arbitration International, 2021

Rogers, Catherine; Brekoulakis, Stavros
Third-Party Funding in Investment Arbitration
Handbook of International Investment Law and Policy, 2020

Rogers, Catherine
Ethics Issues in Advising and Advocating Regarding Cross-Border Contracts, international commercial contracts
Oxford University Press, 2020

Rogers, Catherine
Apparent Dichotomies, Covert Similarities; A Response to Joost Pauwelyn
109 AJIL Unbound 294, 2016

Rogers, Catherine
Transparency in Arbitrator Selection
AUSTRIAN YEARBOOK OF ARBITRATION (Kluwer), 2015

Rogers, Catherine
International Arbitration, Judicial Education & Legal Elites
MO. J. OF DISP. RES. 71 (symposium contribution), 2015

Rogers, Catherine
Arbitrator Selection, Transparency and Stakeholder Interests
46 VICTORIA U. WELLINGTON L. REV. 1179, 2015

Rogers, Catherine
Ethics in international arbitration
Oxford University Press, 2014

Rogers, Catherine; Tumer, Idil
Arbitrator Challenges: Too Many, or Not Enough?,
Contemporary issues in international arbitration and mediation: the fordham papers, 2014

Rogers, Catherine; Park, William W.
Third-Party Funding In International Arbitration: The ICCA Queen-Mary Task Force
Austrian yearbook on international arbitration, 2014