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Robert Walters
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Robert Walters

Associate Professor Law - Managing Director

Melbourne, Australia · Oceania
Practice: mediation arbitration Sectors: Banking and Finance Healthcare Disputes Practice Group Technology / IP
Professional Biography
Robert is an expert in cross border international law pertaining to the digital and traditional economies. Robert has his own legal practice and is an Associate Professor Law. Dr Walters has been engaged by national governments and corporate entities to resolve transnational trade and investment, market access, security, AML, consumer protection, amongst many others across technology (smart contracts, data flows, cyber security, artificial intelligence, quantum, blockchain, algorithms) energy, resources, and Fintech-Digital Finance sectors. He has extensive experience in the Digital Economy, Cross-Border Payments, Digital Finance, Energy, FinTech, Health, Primary Industries, Renewable Energy and Resources sectors, establishing domestic and international markets, contracts [negotiating out], agreements, intellectual property, mergers-acquisitions, takeovers, and resolving complex international disputes and domestic civil litigation. Apart from the above, Dr Walters is an expert in Trade and Investment Agreements, and the newly established Digital Economy Agreements. With more than a decade experience as a Regulator, Robert assists clients to meet their licensing and regulatory obligations. He also assists clients to respond to Regulator demands and navigate complex legal frameworks, negotiating pathways to ensure markets are retained. Dr Walters is a Fellow of the Charter Institute of Arbitrators London, and has exceptional ability, both as a technical lawyer, strategic commercial thinker and legal scholar who is a highly effective negotiator.  Robert draws on his extensive expertise to resolve clients commercial and personal objectives. He also has a engineering background which enables him to understand and resolve complex technical issues related to consumer products and technology. Robert is a governance expert across developed and emerging technology such as blockchain, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, quantum and post quantum technology. He works with technology and manufacturers to commercialise their products.
Arbitration Panel Appointments:
  • World Intellectual Property Organisation
  • London Court of Arbitration
  • American Association Arbitrators ICDR Singapore
  • Member Silicon Valley Arbitration Centre
Dr Walters Teaches:
  • Civil Litigation
  • Evidence
  • Intellectual Property
Author of more than 8 books, 40 journals articles and 10 book chapters addressing commercial and private law along with dispute resolution across multiple countries. Robert has been cited by the World Intellectual Property Organisation and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.  
Overview
Dr Robert Walters is an International Arbitrator, Solicitor, Associate Professor Law.  Dr Walters has more than a decade experience providing advice and representation in domestic and international commercial disputes, and government inquiries across a wide variety of industry sectors. Robert holds an LLB, MPPM, PhD Law.
Qualifications & Education
  • Chartered Institute Arbitrators – CIARb Fellow
  • Graduate Diploma - Legal Practice • The College of Law • Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • Doctor of Philosophy – PhD, Law • Victoria University • Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • Bachelor of Laws - Victoria University • Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • Master of Public Policy - Public Policy & Management • Monash University, VIC, Australia
  • Diploma Science – Natural Resources Management/Agriculture, Frankston Polytechnic
  • Certificate - Structural Steel Fabrication-Engineering, Footscray Polytechnic Australia
  • URBRI – Ripple Fellow, United States
  • New York Law School - American Bar Association, Artificial Intelligence and Arbitration
Awards & Recognition
Affiliations
  • Adjunct Professor European Faculty of Law - Slovenia Europe
  • Senior Research Fellow, University Western Australia
  • Advisor, Corporate Insolvency Centre Gujarat National Law University India
  • Honorary Lecturer, Liverpool Law School, United Kingdom
  • Member American Bar Association
  • Member ASEAN Law Association
Services & Capabilities
Arbitration Expert Determination Standing Neutral Neutral Services Panels
Who this Neutral Serves
For Construction Industry
Industry Experience
Financial Services Technology Public Sector Energy
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