Joshua Karton Q.Arb. is an independent arbitrator and Associate Professor at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law. As an academic, he teaches and writes about commercial dispute resolution (especially international arbitration), international and comparative contract law, and globalization and law. He has written or edited four books and dozens of articles about arbitration and related topics, and presents his research regularly at events around the world. Professor Karton co-founded and remains Managing Editor of the Canadian Journal of Commercial Arbitration, is a member of the core faculty of the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society’s “Gold Standard” course in commercial arbitration, and is a member of ADRIC’s Arbitration Modernization Project committee. He holds a BA in International Relations and Humanities from Yale, a JD from Columbia, and a PhD in International Law from Cambridge. Before commencing his academic career, he practiced in litigation and arbitration at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York.