The Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law is very proud to have its first visiting junior scholar from the University of Bonn, Dominik Zilsdorf. Dominik is a doctoral research student under Prof. Dr. Moritz Brinkmann, LL.M. (McGill) at the Institute of German and International Civil Procedure Law. His dissertation focuses on the third-party binding effect of arbitration agreements. Analysing the current approach in Germany, Dominik systematizes the German jurisprudence with the objective of facilitating the determination of whether a third party is bound by an arbitration agreement. Dominik received his law degree from the University of Bonn, has been a student assistant at the Institute of Private International and Comparative Law, a research assistant in the Disputes Resolution team of a mid-sized Cologne-based law firm, and is a member of the DIS40, the Moot Alumni Association and the Bonn Moot Association. Dominik will be at the SCCL from 15 March – 11 June 2025. During his stay at the SCCL, Dominik will be doing research on the arbitration agreement’s third-party binding effect in Swedish arbitration law, comparing it to the German approach. Please feel free to contact Dominik at dzilsdor@uni-bonn.de to discuss arbitration, comparative law, international private law or any other matter of interest, legal or otherwise.