The Freedom and Limits of International Choice of Forum: Asymmetric Jurisdiction and Arbitration Agreements
暫譯: 國際管轄選擇的自由與限制：不對稱管轄權與仲裁協議

Richard Schmidt is founding and managing partner of SMARTLEGAL Schmidt & Partners, a boutique law firm in Budapest (Hungary) focusing on commercial arbitration and litigation in international and domestic matters. He acted as counsel and arbitrator in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations, including under the ICC, UNCTIRAL, HKIAC rules and in front of the Hungarian Commercial Arbitration Court, and in complex domestic and international commercial litigations. Richard is enrolled as arbitrator at the Hungarian Commercial Arbitration Court and he is listed by the Vienna International Arbitration Centre. Richard is graduated from the Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) (Budapest, Hungary), acquired his LL.M degree at the Université Catholiuqe de Louvain (Belgium), and has been awarded a PhD by his Alma mater in Budapest. Believing that legal theory and practice are indivisible, besides being a university lecturer at PPCU, Richard is author and editor of several online and offline publications including more books on international arbitration and litigation.

理查德·施密特是位於匈牙利布達佩斯的SMARTLEGAL Schmidt & Partners律師事務所的創始合夥人及管理合夥人，該律師事務所專注於國際及國內商業仲裁和訴訟。他曾擔任臨時及機構仲裁的法律顧問和仲裁員，包括根據國際商會（ICC）、聯合國國際貿易法委員會（UNCITRAL）、香港國際仲裁中心（HKIAC）規則以及在匈牙利商業仲裁法院進行的仲裁，並參與複雜的國內和國際商業訴訟。理查德是匈牙利商業仲裁法院的仲裁員，並被維也納國際仲裁中心列名。理查德畢業於匈牙利布達佩斯的帕茲馬尼彼得天主教大學（PPCU），在比利時的魯汶天主教大學獲得法學碩士（LL.M）學位，並在其母校布達佩斯獲得博士學位。理查德相信法律理論與實踐是不可分割的，除了擔任PPCU的大學講師外，他還是多部有關國際仲裁和訴訟的線上及線下出版物的作者和編輯。