There are few CVs out there quite like Robert Spano’s.

The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner, who works across the firm’s London and Paris offices, was the former President of the European Court of Human Rights, is currently a board member on the International Damage Registry for Ukraine, a visiting professor at the University of Oxford, and a tenured professor at the University of Iceland. To boot, he’s also a member of the all-male choir Fóstbræður, or ‘Brotherhood’.