Michael Devine
Overview
Call 1995 –Grays Inn
Michael Devine has practiced law as an attorney in Des Moines, Iowa, USA, and in New York, USA. He has practiced as a barrister in London before becoming a door tenant of Rougemont Chambers and subsequently Magdalen Chambers.
Expertise
Michael has appeared before the Iowa Supreme Court in Des Moines; the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, in Manhattan, New York City; the US International Trade Commission in Washington, DC; and the High Court of Justice of England and Wales in London.
Michael was part-time Lecturer in Law on the LLM in International Commercial Law degree program at Kent Law School, University of Kent at Canterbury, while he practiced in London. He then became a door tenant of Rougemont Chambers and was Lecturer in Law and Course Leader of the LLM in International Commercial Law degree at The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen Business School, Department of Law, in Aberdeen; then Assistant Professor of Business Law at the University of Wisconsin—La Crosse, College of Business Administration, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA; and then Senior Lecturer in Law and Deputy Program Leader of Full Time and Program Leader of Distance Learning LLM degrees in Commercial Law, International Commercial Law, and International Trade Law at Northumbria University Law School in Newcastle upon Tyne.
As a Fellow in International Commercial Arbitration of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, since 2008 Michael has been a volunteer judge/arbitrator at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna, Austria, and at the Skadden Arps Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot organized by the Center for International Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria, and held at various world-wide venues.
Michael accepts instructions to act as a sole arbitrator or on a three-member arbitral tribunal in domestic and international commercial matters, with special emphasis on alleged breach of contract matters, and to advise on the laws of those jurisdictions in which he is admitted as an attorney in the United States. He may conduct arbitration hearings by Zoom from Des Moines, Iowa, USA, or he may travel to conduct arbitration hearings live in person at a neutral location agreed by the parties.
Academic qualifications
- *BA Cum Laude in History, American Studies, and Urban Studies, Phi Alpha Theta
- St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA, May 1976
- Includes: St. Olaf Term Abroad as Affiliated Student, St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford, Michaelmas Term, 1975
- *MPA (Master of Public Administration), Pi Alpha Alpha
- Drake University School of Graduate Studies, Des Moines, Iowa, USA, May 1980
- *JD (Doctor of Jurisprudence)
- Drake University Law School, Des Moines, Iowa, USA, May 1980
- *Diploma in Advanced International Legal Studies
- University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, California, USA, in Cooperation with the Faculty of Law, University of Salzburg, Austria, December 1986
- *LLM in International Business Legal Studies with First Class Honours on Short Dissertation (Published by the International Law Section of the American Bar Association)
- University of Exeter Law School, July 1988
Professional Memberships
- Attorney-at-Law: District of Columbia; States of Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and New York; and US Supreme Court.
- Barrister-at-Law: England and Wales; Northern Ireland; and Ireland
- Fellow in International Commercial Arbitration, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (Chicago and Midwest Chapter, North America Branch)
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