Dispute Resolution Discussions

  • New Book on The Culture of International Arbitration

    New from Oxford UP, "The Culture of International Arbitration" by Won Kidane, an associate professor at Seattle University School of Law and a partner at Addis Law Group LLP. Here's the blurb from the publisher's website:

    Provides a definition of legal culture and its role in modern day arbitral proceedings
    Contains a detailed analysis of how cultural miscommunication affects commercial and investment arbitration
    Documents the history of the relationship between courts and arbitral tribunals in various legal traditions
    Contains interviews with leading international jurists from diverse legal traditions who have first-hand experience with the effects of culture on legal proceedings
    Offers a unique and useful perspective to practitioners, academics, policy makers, and students of international arbitration

    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-culture-of-international-arb...

  • Discussions on International Mediation and Denial of Justice Claims in BIT Arbitrations

    Dear DRIG Members:

    Please join our friends at the Center on International Commercial Arbitration of American University Washington College of Law on 6 April 2016, as they welcome the LL.M. students competing in the Center's Fifth LL.M. International Commercial Moot Court Competition. The opening event will consist of two panel discussions, focused on international mediation (panel 1) and denial of justice claims in BIT arbitration (panel 2).

    Details below, and at the following link: https://www.wcl.american.edu/arbitration/. The venue is the Claudio Grossman Hall of the new AU-WCL campus, on 4300 Nebraska Avenue, NW.

    FIRST DISCUSSION - International Mediation: Status, Challenges and Latest Developments (3:30 P.M. – 4:45 P.M.)
    Speakers: David H Burt, Attorney and former Corporate Counsel to the DuPont Company; Harold Himmelman, Beveridge Diamond PC; Iván Illescas, MIGA, World Bank; Hernando Otero, WCL Center on International Commercial Arbitration; and Tomás Solís, Of Counsel, Squire Patton Boggs LLP. This conference is sponsored by ICC YAF.

    SECOND DISCUSSION - Roundtable: Denial of Justice Claims in BIT Arbitration (5:15 P.M. – 7:00 P.M.)
    Speakers: Arif H. Ali, Dechert LLP; Claudia Frutos-Peterson, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP; Victoria Shannon Sahani, Washington and Lee University School of Law; and Luke Sobota, Three Crowns.

    Lorena Perez McGill