Anita Garnuszek

Education

• Ph.D. in law obtained in 2022; Graduate of the University of Warsaw, the Hague Academy of Private International Law and the International Academy for Arbitration Law in Paris.

Professional career

• Managing Associate in the dispute resolution team of the law firm WKB Wierciński Kwieciński Baehr, she has been working with the firm since 2018; previously, she worked as an associate with the law firm Łaszczuk & Partners for 5 years.
• Long-time coach of the teams of the WPiA UW in international arbitration competitions.

Arbitration experience

• She represents entrepreneurs in commercial disputes before arbitration courts such as the Arbitration Court at the ICC, LCIA, SCC, the Arbitration Court at the Polish Confederation of Lewiatan, SAKIG, the Court of Arbitration for Sport at the Polish Olympic Committee and ad hoc arbitration tribunals, both in investment, commercial and sports arbitration.
• Previously, she served for 5 years as secretary of one of the most recognised and respected arbitrators in Poland.

Membership in organizations

• Member of AIJA, Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration and Young International Arbitration Group.

Publications

1. author of a doctoral dissertation entitled „The state in international commercial arbitration”;
2. A. Garnuszek, Public law in international commercial arbitration with state participation, in Problems of Private International Law, vol. 20, Katowice 2017;
3. A. Garnuszek, A. Orzeł, EU proposals to reform the investor-to-State dispute settlement system – a critical analysis of selected issues addressed in the concept paper 'Investment in TTIP and beyond the path for reform’, in: Wroclaw Review of Law, Administration & Economics, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2015): Issue 2;
4. A. Garnuszek, The Law Applicable to the Contractual Assignment of an Arbitration Agreement, in Arbitration. The International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management, Vol. 82, Issue 4;
5. A. Garnuszek, A. Orzeł, Enforceability of Multi-tiered Dispute Resolution Clauses under Polish Law, in Arbitration Bulletin – Young Arbitration, 24/2016;
6. A. Garnuszek, Amendments to Polish law regarding the dispute resolution system in sport, in Law. Sport. Finance. Regulacje Prawne jako Instrument Optymalizujący Zarzadzanie Sportem, eds K. Wróbel, M. Walczak, Warsaw 2017.