Background: Mr. Hanna is a member of prominent arbitration organizations such as CPR Institute of Conflict Prevention and Resolution, The Institute of Transnational Arbitration, Certified Institute of Arbitrators, National Arbitration Forum and also registered with such organizations as U.S. National Committee (USCIB) of the International Chamber of Commerce and the Chicago International Dispute Resolution Association.

He has been involved with the arbitration and mediation of a wide variety of environmental, commercial and labor disputes for over 30 years. He designed and negotiated the first grievance and arbitration procedures covering 180,000 New York State employees.

Mr. Hanna has spent over 30 years in most areas of environmental law as a government litigator and executive, a private lawyer and a law professor and also has a practice in complex commercial transactions.

He has litigated, and more importantly settled, some of the most complex environmental cases in New York State during the last twenty years. References can be provided. A list of those cases is found on this web site.

A more detailed resume is found on this web site.

Services: Mr. Hanna is willing to serve as a sole neutral arbitrator or on a panel as neutral president of the panel or a party appointed neutral arbitrator especially in the following areas:

• International commercial arbitration
  
• International environmental law
  
• Environmental law
  
• Redevelopment of contaminated industrial properties
  
• Privatizing government installations and services, particularly military
• Judicial and administrative trials
  
• Not-for-profit organization governance

Language: English

Ex Parte Communications

Contacting Mr. Hanna by only one of the parties to a dispute should be done consistently with best practices in international arbitration, which is to avoid contacts out of the presence of the other party or parties. Accordingly such ex parte contacts must be limited to requests of Mr. Hanna’s availability and absence of conflicts, the names and addresses of the parties, a general and limited description of the issues such as “a dispute arising out of a contract for the delivery of a [described] product or service” and questions generally of Mr. Hanna’s experience with a particular commercial, government or not-for-profit sector. If selected as a party appointed neutral he may also be consulted about candidates for the chair of the panel where the two party appointed neutrals are to select the chair.