Hendrik Puschmann was a student at Clare Hall from 2004 to 2006 and is now a Fellow Commoner.
A commercial lawyer, he provides legal advice to the College when needed (thankfully, not very often), was one of the chairs of the 2016 Campaign – the fundraising campaign for the College’s 50th anniversary – and has served on the Development Advisory Council.
Hendrik’s main interest as both a researcher and a practicing lawyer lies in international arbitration. As a researcher, he is currently finishing a book on the LMAA Terms 2021, the most widely used arbitral rules for resolving maritime disputes. Longer-term projects include a commentary of the arbitration rules of the principal London-based commodities trading associations and an inquiry into the use of arbitration clauses by states as parties to commercial contracts.
As a practitioner, Hendrik is co-head of the international arbitration group at Trowers & Hamlins, based in the firm’s London office. He regularly acts as lead advocate in a wide variety of disputes – on subjects ranging from oil pipelines to oil paintings – under a number of different arbitral rules. He also sits as an arbitrator. Hendrik moreover chairs Trowers & Hamlins’ pro-bono practice. His proudest professional achievement has been setting up a legal clinic at the Whitechapel Mission homeless shelter in London.
Hendrik is admitted to practice as a Solicitor-Advocate in England and Wales, a Rechtsanwalt in Germany and a Solicitor in both Ireland and Northern Ireland. He is also a sworn legal translator for English and German.
Aside from his work at Clare Hall and Trowers & Hamlins, Hendrik is (among other things) an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, member of the Consulting Editorial Board of Lexis®PSL Arbitration, member of the Academic Advisory Council (wissenschaftlicher Beirat) of the Institute of Applied Commercial Law (Institut für angewandtes Wirtschaftsrecht) at the Hamburg School of Business Administration (HSBA), and member of the Advisory Council of the Institute of Professional Conduct Law (Institut für Anwaltsrecht) at Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria), where he is also a teaching fellow in international law and commerce. He was previously a Marie-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre of International Studies (now part of POLIS).
Select publications and conference papers
- H Puschmann, J Clanchy and K Wandowicz, Butterworths Handbook to the LMAA Terms 2021 (London: LexisNexis Butterworths, forthcoming 2025)
- H Puschmann and T Makato, “The Publication of Arbitration-Related Court Judgments”, 8th Annual Conference on the Future of the Commercial Contract, London Centre for Commercial and Financial Law (25 October 2024)
- M Beham and H Puschmann, “Public Interest in the Publicity of Arbitral Proceedings”, in C Klausegger et al (eds), Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration (Vienna: Manz, 2021), pp. 306-310
- A Geroldinger and H Puschmann, “Ausgewählte Fragen zu Gerichtsstands- und Schiedsvereinbarungen im Gesellschaftsrecht”, in E Artmann, F Rüffler and U Torggler (eds), Gesellschaftsrecht und IPR (Vienna: Manz, 2020) pp. 37–53
- H Puschmann (ed.), Butterworths Challenges in Arbitration: Challenges Against Arbitrators, Awards and Enforcement in England and Wales (London: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2019)
- H Puschmann, “The Echo Chamber: Arbitration as a Social Network”, 6th Cambridge Arbitration Day, University of Cambridge (16 March 2019)
- H Puschmann and A Geroldinger, “ICSID Arbitration Clauses in Contracts: Time for a Revival?”, in M Heidemann and J Lee (eds), The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform (Berlin: Springer, 2018), pp. 389-405. (Based on a paper delivered at the 1st Annual Conference on the Future of the Commercial Contract, a joint conference of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and the University of Exeter, London, 22 September 2016)
- H Puschmann and A Geroldinger, “Multi-Contract References under the LCIA Rules: Case Closed?” [2018] Int. A.L.R. 2 (Sweet & Maxwell), pp. 37-45
- M Nueber and H Puschmann, “Arbitration of Foundation and Trust Disputes in Liechtenstein and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Analysis”, Trusts & Trustees (Oxford University Press), Vol. 24 Issue 5 (2018), pp. 418-426
- H Puschmann, “Arbitration at all Costs?”, 5th Cambridge Arbitration Day, University of Cambridge (3 March 2018)
- I Meredith and H Puschmann, “Notes on the Cultural Dimension of International Commercial Arbitration”, Slovenian Arbitration Review, Vol. 6 Issue 1 (2016), pp. 29-35
