S.I. Strong is the Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri School of Law. She is a leading authority on class, mass and collective arbitration, having published over twenty-five articles on large-scale and multiparty procedures in Europe and the Americas in addition to numerous other books and articles on international dispute resolution and comparative law. Professor Strong has extensive experience as a dual-qualified practitioner (U.S.-England), having acted as Counsel at Baker & McKenzie after working in the New York and London offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Professor Strong has taught at Georgetown Law Center in Washington, D.C. as well as the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Professor Strong has provided expert assistance to state agencies in various jurisdictions and is the author of International Commercial Arbitration: A Guide for U.S. Judges (2012). Professor Strong's scholarly work has won numerous awards and has been cited as authority to the U.S. Supreme Court and in ICSID awards. Professor Strong, who holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Cambridge, a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, a J.D. from Duke University, an M.P.W. from the University of Southern California and a B.A. from the University of California, sits as an arbitrator on a variety of commercial matters.