Kim von Arx

Email:	kim [at] vonarx.ca

Kim is currently offering consulting services to numerous organizations on domain name and ICANN.

Kim was the General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and Director of Policy Development and he was part of the senior management team and worked closely with CIRA's Board of Directors. Kim's overall responsibility, as the head of the legal department, was to ensure CIRA complies with applicable legislation and that it is well served in regard to all legal matters. As the head of the policy department, Kim was entasked to ensure that all of CIRA's policies are developed in an open, accountable, and transparent manner and in conjunction with the relevant input from all of CIRA's stakeholders.

He is a member of the Executive Board of CENTR since 2006 and has been a member of ccNSO working groups as well as CENTR working groups.

Kim also guest lectures, occasionally when time permits, at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and the University of Calgary Faculty of Law on the subject matter of trade-marks and domain names.

Kim also regularly presents at various conferences on domain names, whois, privacy, and other related matters.

Kim is called to the Bar of Ontario and Nova Scotia. Before coming to CIRA, he practiced law as a complex commercial litigator at Cox Hanson O'Reilly Matheson in Halifax, representing a wide variety of companies from Canada and abroad. He also provided legal services to German-speaking clients in all matters ranging from litigation, immigration, real estate, and general corporate/commercial matters.

Originally from Pusan (now Busan), South-Korea and a citizen of Switzerland and Canada, Kim was educated in Switzerland, Germany, Scotland, and Canada. He attended Schule Schloss Salem, Lakefield College School, University of Dalhousie, University of Edinburgh, University of New Brunswick, and University of Ottawa.

Finally, Kim enjoys classical singing, various sports, and is an avid reader of philosophy. He enjoys mostly pre-socratic philosophy. Kim is also a certified volleyball referee and fire brigade troop commander. Kim is also an accomplished athlete in gymnastics, track and field, and martial arts.

Publications

Kim wrote three articles on the ICANN:

• The Patriation of .ca
• Sovereign Domains: A Declaration of Independence of ccTLDs from Foreign Control
• ICANN - Now and Then: ICANN's Reform and Its Problems

He also wrote an article on online defamation law. For anyone who is interested here is the link:

• LitOral: A New Form of Defamation Consciouness