Thomas E. Carbonneau is the Samuel P. Orlando Distinguished Professor of Law at Pennsylvania State University, and Faculty Director of the Institute of Arbitration Law and Practice. He was previously a faculty member at the Tulane University School of Law for more than twenty years, where he held the Moise S. Steeg, Jr. professorship. He has directed summer programs on arbitration at various universities, including McGill University in Quebec, Canada, and Queen Mary College in London. Professor Carbonneau is a scholar of international, comparative, and domestic arbitration. He has written many scholarly articles, and more than fifteen books, including casebooks on international litigation and arbitration. He holds degrees from Bowdoin College, University of Virginia, and Columbia University. He also holds an M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.