Peter  Kamminga

Dr. Peter Kamminga is a mediator and arbitrator handling complex, high-stakes disputes in the United States, Europe, and cross-border matters involving parties from multiple jurisdictions. He is regularly engaged in cases involving significant commercial exposure, sophisticated counsel, and complex legal, technical, insurance, or organizational issues.

His work includes securities and investor disputes, class and collective actions, cybersecurity and privacy matters, insurance coverage disputes, professional liability, bankruptcy and insolvency, M&A and post-transaction disputes, antitrust, infrastructure, energy, healthcare, technology, and other complex commercial matters. He has mediated and arbitrated disputes with aggregate values in the millions and, at times, billions of dollars or euros.

Mr. Kamminga began his dispute-resolution career in Europe and later gained substantial hands-on experience in the United States working alongside Judge Daniel Weinstein (Ret.), one of the founders of JAMS and a leading figure in complex commercial mediation. That combination of European grounding and U.S. high-stakes mediation experience gives him a distinctive profile in matters involving multinational companies, institutional investors, insurers, public entities, and sophisticated plaintiff and defense counsel.

Counsel value Mr. Kamminga for his ability to move comfortably between legal systems, business cultures, and decision-making environments. He is particularly well suited to disputes involving international parties, parallel proceedings, layered insurance structures, and claims where legal, commercial, regulatory, and reputational risks overlap.

His approach is practical, prepared, and direct. He listens carefully, studies the record, asks hard questions, and works with parties to identify the legal and business realities that may allow a resolution to emerge. Clients appreciate his ability to understand complex contractual relationships quickly, pressure-test positions without grandstanding, and remain engaged when a matter is difficult to settle.

In addition to his work as a neutral, Mr. Kamminga is an associate professor of law and has written extensively on contracts, negotiation, and dispute resolution. His academic background informs his work, but does not define it. Parties hire him because he combines analytical depth with practical judgment, cross-border experience, and persistence in helping sophisticated parties resolve difficult disputes.

Mr. Kamminga grew up in the Netherlands and has lived, studied, and worked in Germany, France, the United States, and the Netherlands. He is at home in both European and U.S. legal and business settings and works with parties across jurisdictions, sectors, and legal traditions.

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Recognition

Mr. Kamminga's work reflects a rare combination of practical dispute-resolution experience, academic rigor, and international perspective.

His doctoral research on contracts and dispute resolution was recognized as exemplary multidisciplinary scholarship and was completed while serving as a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Gould Center for Conflict Resolution. Following completion of his doctorate, he was invited to join Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation, where he served as a postdoctoral fellow and later as affiliated faculty, contributing to research and executive education initiatives focused on negotiation and dispute resolution.

Over the course of his career, he has held academic affiliations with institutions including Harvard Law School, Stanford University, and UC Hastings College of the Law, and has taught and lectured internationally on negotiation, contracts, and dispute resolution.

In recognition of his contributions to the field, he received the Weinstein International Fellowship from the JAMS Foundation. He was also awarded a highly competitive research grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to study contracting strategies, procurement systems, and dispute-prevention mechanisms in complex projects.

Today, Mr. Kamminga's academic background informs his work as a mediator and arbitrator, particularly in disputes involving complex legal, commercial, technical, and organizational issues. His approach combines rigorous preparation and analytical depth with a practical focus on helping parties evaluate risk, make informed decisions, and reach durable resolutions.

Education and ADR credentials

Peter Kamminga combines extensive practical dispute-resolution experience with advanced training in negotiation, mediation, and dispute systems design.

He studied law and dispute resolution at leading universities in Europe and the United States, including Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, Maastricht University, Tilburg University, and KU Leuven. He holds a Ph.D. focused on contracts and dispute resolution and an LL.M. from Columbia University.

Throughout his career, he has continued to train with and learn from some of the most respected figures in the field, including Judge Daniel Weinstein (Ret.), one of the founders of JAMS, Gary Friedman, Professor Robert Mnookin (Harvard Law School), Professor Lawrence Susskind (MIT), and other leading practitioners and scholars.

In addition to his work as a mediator and arbitrator, Mr. Kamminga has taught negotiation, contracts, and dispute resolution at universities and professional institutes in the United States and Europe. He has published extensively on dispute resolution, negotiation, contracts, and conflict management, including books and numerous articles addressing the practical challenges of resolving complex disputes.