Brian Hutchinson is Associate Professor in the School of Law, University College Dublin where he specialises in Commercial Law, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution. He is Editor of the Commercial Law Practitioner Law Journal (ISSN 0791-895X), former Editor of Irish Business Law Journal (ISSN 1393-6220), and he is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Irish Jurist. (ISSN 0021-1273) and the International Journal of Online Dispute Resolution (Eleven International Publishing, The Hague, Netherlands).

Brian was a member of the advisory board of e-Resolution, one of the first bodies accredited ICANN to provide online arbitration for the resolution of domain name disputes. He was project leader of the pilot phase of the ECODIR (Electronic Consumer Dispute Resolution) project ((www.ecodir.org) which pioneered online consumer dispute resolution in Europe. He chaired the EU Commission supported “CCForm” EU IST Thematic Network (IST-2001-34908) Topic Panel 5 – «CCForm and ADR» - and was Legal Expert and Editor for the European Committee for Standardization’s Workshop Agreement on the Standardization of Online Dispute Resolution Tools (CEN/ISS – WS/Stand-ODR). He has acted as consultant to the Irish Attorney general on aspects of the Irish Arbitration Bill, 2008, and the Irish Law Reform Commission with regard to the development and use of ADR in Ireland. He is currently a ministerially appointed member of the Irish statutory Company Law Review Group.

A chartered arbitrator and accredited mediator, Brian has served as arbitrator, as arbitrator's legal advisor, and as party counsel in a number of domestic and international arbitrations and conciliations with total amounts in dispute in excess of Eur 50,000,000; and he has served as expert witness in multi-million pound UK litigation. He is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) arbitrators panel. He is a fellow of the National Centre for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution.