Law-Related Positions

  • For many years, Steve was a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, where he taught the course in international commercial arbitration. He has taught classes and otherwise spoke on numerous occasions at Stanford, Berkeley and UCLA on the law and practice of international dispute resolution.

  • Steve has been a member of the ICC’s Leaders Group in the United States since 2002 and currently serves as Co-Chair of the ICC’s California Subcommittee.

  • He is a founding and current member of the Board of Directors of California Arbitration (“CalArb”), the voice of California’s international arbitration community.

  • Steve was a U.S. delegate to the ICC Commission on Arbitration in Paris from 2006 to 2022.

  • He is also a former member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre Users Council.

  • He is a past Chair and Vice-Chair of the International Law Section of the State Bar of California.

  • He is also a former Chair of the ABA’s International Arbitration Committee and a past-President of the Northern California International Arbitration Club.

  • Steve served as Co-Chair of the 2003 Annual Meeting of the ABA’s Section of International Law and Practice.

  • He is an honorary member of the Commercial Bar Association of London.

  • He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the U.C. Berkeley School of Law’s international law journal, initially named the International Tax & Business Lawyer, now the Berkeley Journal of International Law, and was a member of the journal’s Board of Overseers for many years.

  • At the request of the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, Steve served as a member of the Court-appointed working group that proposed and drafted the statute (Senate Bill No. 766) that authorized out-of-state and foreign attorneys to participate in international arbitrations taking place in California. Once passed by the California legislature and signed by Governor Brown, the legislation became part of California’s International Commercial Arbitration Act, thereby overcoming a major impediment to California’s acceptance as a welcoming venue for international arbitration.