Anton Chaevitch, JD, PhD

Anton Chaevitch joined the faculty at Creighton University School of Law in January 2026. He teaches Contracts I and II, International Arbitration, International Law, and Secured Transactions.

His research examines arbitration and its interaction with other areas of law and policy. His work has appeared in, or is forthcoming in, The American Review of International Arbitration andThe Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, as well as in leading edited volumes on international arbitration. He has also contributed to The Learned and Lived Law: Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue (Legal History Library).

Professor Chaevitch has presented his scholarship at Harvard Law School and at the National Law School of India University. He has also served as a visiting professor at the latter.

Having grown up in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Professor Chaevitch came to the United States to pursue undergraduate studies at Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude. He remained at Harvard to earn a Ph.D. in German literature, with research that engaged extensively with legal questions. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar, and clerked for Juan R. Torruella on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit before practicing international arbitration in Washington, D.C.

He is fluent in Dutch, English, and Russian, and has taught German at Harvard University, where he also earned language citations in French and Spanish. He still retains some Latin and Ancient Greek from his days at the St. Ignatiusgymnasium in Amsterdam.