Abstract
The sudden and painfully premature death of Dr J. Gillis Wetter on 6 January, 1995, at the age of 63, is a source of grief to his many friends in the international arbitral community. A leading Swedish international lawyer, and one of the world's experts on international arbitration, Wetter had a notable career as a lawyer, arbitrator and scholar. Wetter was born in Stockholm in 1931, into a family distinguished for its intellectual and social attainments. His father, Sune Wetter, was for decades one of the most eminent Swedish lawyers, the senior partner of Wetter & Swartling, Solicitor Royal of the King, and chairman of many boards, commercial and civic. Gillis Wetter graduated in law from the University of Stockholm in 1954 with the highest honours awarded since the inception of the Law Faculty in 1905. He did post-graduate work at King's College of the University of London, took a master's degree and doctorate of jurisprudence at the University of Chicago – where the reigning American jurisprudentialist of the time, Karl Llewellyn, described Wetter …
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