The 2004 Lecture, "Apes, Neanderthals and Missing Links: Evolution in International Business Arbitration", was given by William (Rusty) Park, Professor of Law at Boston University and Vice President at the London Court of International Arbitration.

Professor Park is Editor of Arbitration International, Chair of the ABA Committee on International Commercial Dispute Resolution, and a member of the NAFTA Financial Services Roster. He sits on the Appeals Tribunal for the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, and served as Arbitrator on the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland, resolving claims to Swiss bank accounts of Holocaust victims.