Dr. Peter Kamminga    

Dr. Kamminga, is an international arbitrator & mediator, as well as a scholar and professor. For almost twenty years now, he has worked with public and private organizations to resolve complex disputes, improve contractual relations, and develop collaborative contracting strategies for multi-million dollar projects.

Over the last fifteen years, Peter has become a go-to dispute resolution professional for complex business disputes. As a business mediator, arbitrator, and dispute system designer, he has earned a reputation for helping to bring to resolution some of the most complex domestic and cross-border disputes in the U.S., Europe, and globally, involving millions and sometimes billions of dollars.

As a neutral at JAMS, the number one dispute resolution provider in the world, he has worked with Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 global companies, many of the top ten AmLaw 100 law firms, top National Trial Lawyer "Most Feared Plaintiff Firms', and virtually all of the largest insurance companies in the U.S. as well as many government organizations and non-profits in Europe.

ADR, collaborative strategies and advice

Dr. Kamminga mediates and arbitrates and helps multinationals and government organizations develop their contracting and collaboration strategies. He has advised parties involved in large construction projects and other long-term contractual relationships. He designs collaboration and contracting policies, drawing from his in-depth two decades of experience and know-how.

Research, speaking and Leadership

As a leading international scholar in contractual relations and dispute resolution, during the past twenty years, Dr. Kamminga has done a deep dive into contractual ties and developed a unique expertise on how to design collaboration effectively. He wrote a Ph.D. on the subject and completed his grant-winning research at Stanford and Harvard. He has taught students and professionals and regularly speaks as a contractual relations expert on the subject of negotiation, mediation, and contractual relationships around the world.

Dr. Peter Kamminga

Peter Kamminga, Ph.D., LL.M., is a mediator, scholar, speaker, and professor. He is an international expert in the field of dispute resolution and relational contracting. As a trained lawyer and behavioral scientist for the past twenty years, he developed unique expertise and experience in the fields of dispute resolution and contracts.

As a dispute resolution professional, Dr. Kamminga specializes in complex civil matters. In the past two decades, he has successfully (co)mediated many complex, multi-party civil disputes ranging from sophisticated financial disputes, large (cross-border) bankruptcies to complex insurance coverage cases, cybersecurity and merger & acquisition disputes, and high-stakes contractual matters related to construction, major developments, and oil & gas projects. Each of these matters with aggregate values of millions and sometimes billions of dollars or euro’s in claims. Dr. Kamminga was trained by and at times still teams up with one of the US preeminent (JAMS) mediators, Judge Weinstein (Ret.) (visit kammingamediation.com for more information or click here).

As a scholar and professor, he is appointed Associate Professor at  VU Amsterdam University and an affiliated scholar at the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation. He has addressed more than 10,000 professionals in more than a dozen countries on themes of collaboration and negotiation. He continues to lead discussions on topics of collaboration, complex contracts, contract law and theory, contract design, negotiation, and mediation. His collection of published works includes over fifty peer-reviewed articles in scholarly and practice journals and five books on subjects ranging from dispute resolution, contracts to collaboration, and claim handling. All of this work has earned him a variety of recognitions. He has conducted in-depth studies on numerous global firms and performed empirical research on organizational collaboration.

As a trusted advisor, Dr. Kamminga regularly consults with large public and private organizations. He helps with designing successful and collaborative contractual relations for some of the most complex projects and contractual matters around.

Dr. Kamminga started his legal career as in-house counsel and as a legal advisor at de Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (one of the Netherlands’ leading law firms) advising on arbitration cases and large complex disputes. He then embarked upon an academic career providing in-depth studies and counsel to clients on access to justice, claim handling, and dispute resolution policies. Clients included the European Commission, The Dutch Ministry of Justice, and Ministry of Infrastructure, various Dutch and US insurance companies, international financial institutions, and multiple clients and contractors in the European and US construction industry.

In 2011 he received a Veni-grant for his academic work. The prestigious grant awarded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)  to excellent, innovative, adventurous, and pioneering scholars. It allowed him to carry out studies into optimal contract regimes and procurement methods. The same year he was awarded a Weinstein Fellowship from the JAMS Foundation for his accomplishments in the field of the international ADR practice.  

Dr. Kamminga was Co-chair of the Committee on the Future of ADR of the International committee of the American Bar Association Section on Dispute Resolution, and is a director and scholar at the Global Infrastructure Institute, and member of the committee on the Future of Construction of the World Economic Forum. He has given presentations on his research findings at conferences around the world.

Dr. Kamminga graduated from Columbia University, Groningen University, and studied at Georg August University and followed a Master in Conflict Management at studied at Maastricht University. He wrote his Ph.D. while in residence at Stanford University, which he successfully defended at both Tilburg University and Brussels University. Next to his work carried out at Harvard University and VU Amsterdam, he has held academic affiliations at UC Hastings College of the Law and Stanford University (Gould Center).