Troy Harris is counsel on King & Spalding’s Business Litigation Practice Group. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, an adjunct professor of law at Emory Law School in Atlanta, and a lecturer in business law at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Mr. Harris came to the firm from Cornell Law School where he taught from 1998 until 2000.  Mr. Harris currently serves as Vice-Chair Southeastern Chapter of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (North America Branch), Co-chair of the International Litigation Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation and as a member of the Steering Committee for Division 8 (International Construction) of the American Bar Association's Forum on the Construction Industry.  He is a Registered Neutral (Arbitration) with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution and has served as an arbitrator and panel chair at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria.

Mr. Harris has experience in a range of complex dispute resolution matters, particularly in the energy and construction industry.

Mr. Harris graduated Phi Beta Kappa with an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Kansas and received his law degree from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). After clerking for a United States District Judge in Kansas City for two years, Mr. Harris practiced law with a construction law firm in Atlanta for three years. Mr. Harris taught at Cornell Law School from 1998 until 2000, while completing a Ph.D. in European legal history at the University of Chicago, where he was awarded a University Fellowship and a Mellon Summer Fellowship.

• “Ethics” in International Construction Law (American Bar Association, forthcoming 2009).
  
  
• Review of Jeffrey Delmon, Private Sector Investment in Infrastructure: Project Finance PPP Projects and Risk (2d ed. 2009), Construction Law International (forthcoming 2009).
  
  
• “Disclosure of Electronic Documents in International Construction Arbitration,” 26 Int’l Construction L. Rev. 161 (2009).
  
  
• International Construction Arbitration Handbook with Annual Supplements (Thomson West, 2008). More details »
  
  
• “International Corruption Laws,” Construction Checklists: A Guide to Frequently Encountered Construction Issues (American Bar Association, 2008).
  
  
• “Performance Security—Owner,” Construction Checklists: A Guide to Frequently Encountered Construction Issues (American Bar Association, 2008).
  
  
• “Payment Security—Contractor,” Construction Checklists: A Guide to Frequently Encountered Construction Issues (American Bar Association, 2008).
  
  
• “The ‘Public Policy’ Exception to Enforcement of International Arbitration Awards Under the New York Convention, With Particular Reference to Construction Disputes,” 24 J. Int’l. Arb. 9 (2007).
  
  
• “Equitable Remedies for Breach of Contract in Georgia,” Contract Litigation (Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, 2005).
  
  
• “Good Faith, Suretyship, and the Ius Commune,” 53 Mercer L. Rev. 581 (2002) (cited in PSE Consulting, Inc. v. Frank Mercede and Sons, Inc., 838 A.2d 135 (Conn. 2004)).

• Commercial Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association
  
  
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  
  
• Society of Construction Law
  
  
• American Bar Association