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Lawrence S. Schaner is the founder of Schaner Dispute Resolution LLC, in Chicago, and an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where he teaches international arbitration. Until April 2017, he was a partner at Jenner & Block LLP, at which he co-founded and co-chaired the firm’s international arbitration practice, serving for nearly three decades as counsel in a wide range of significant international and domestic disputes before arbitral tribunals and courts. He regularly sits as an arbitrator and serves on the panels of many of the world’s leading arbitral institutions. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, editor of Dispute Resolution International, the dispute resolution journal of the International Bar Association, and co-editor of International Arbitration in the United States (Wolters Kluwer 2018). He has been recognized for his work as both arbitrator and counsel in international and commercial arbitration by numerous publications including Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, Who’s Who Legal, The National Law Journal and Euromoney, among others. He earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1986 and A.B. from Duke University in 1982. He is a member of the Bars of the States of California, Illinois and New York.