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Thomas Clay is both a professor at the Sorbonne Law School, where he teaches international arbitration law, and a lawyer at the Paris Bar, where he is the founding partner of Clay Arbitration, one of leading firms in international arbitration. He was a visiting professor at Columbia University last year. Thomas Clay has participated in over a hundred arbitration proceedings, as an arbitrator or lawyer, in commercial, investment, sports, and other types of arbitration. He is the author of numerous publications, books, articles, and columns, and has participated in many international arbitration conferences and congresses around the world. He was closely involved in drafting the 2011 French Arbitration Law, and is co-chaired of the working group on the 2026 French arbitration law reform. Thomas Clay holds a pre-eminent place in the French legal landscape, where he is one of the best-known and most respected specialists in arbitration, as well as practitioner and academic. He works in French, Spanish, English, and Italian.