Professor Eric E. Bergsten (Professor Emeritus; Deputy Director of the Institute of International Commercial Law; and Administrator of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot) has had a distinguished sixteen-year career with the United Nations where he served the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), first as Senior Legal Officer and then as Secretary of the Commission. From 1985-1991 he was Chief of the International Trade Law Branch of the Office of Legal Affairs. This branch serves as secretariat of UNCITRAL. During his fifteen years of law school teaching he taught a number of commercial law and international law courses at Fordham University, the University of Iowa, and Northwestern University. His numerous writings and teaching focus on commercial law and international trade law. Professor Bergsten developed and administers Pace's Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot held annually in Vienna, Austria.
Professor Bergsten has been awarded a "Special Award" by the International Law and Practice Section of the New York State Bar Association, a "Special Commendation" for his achievements as Director of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot by the Section on Dispute Resolution of the American Bar Association, and the Silver Medal of Honor (Silberne Ehrenzeichen) by the City of Vienna, Austria.