VI Symposium on Salient Issues in International Arbitration: "Does a Transnational Legal Order Exist in International Arbitration?"
NOVEMBER 10 AND 11, 2021, FROM 9:00AM TO 12:30 PM
AGENDA
All panels will take place on Zoom
The event is free and open to the public. 听Registration is required.听听
day 1 -Wednesday, November 10, 2021
9:00 鈥 9:30听a.m.:
Opening Remarks
- Prof. Dr. Horacio A. Grigera Na贸n, Director, Center on International Commercial Arbitration, AUWCL
- Prof. , Co-Director, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
- Prof. , Secretary-General, UNIDROIT, Rome
- Prof. , Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), The Hague
9:30听鈥 11:00听a.m.:
The Application of UNIDROIT Principles in International Commercial Arbitration
- Panel Chair: Secretary-General, UNIDROIT, Rome
- Panelists:
- Professor Emeritus at the University of Rome I Sapienza; Consultant, Unidroit; Editor-in-Chief, UNILEX; and PhD, University of Rome I Sapienza; Attorney at law (Rome, Italy); Co-Editor-in-Chief, UNILEX (Section Unidroit Principles)
Does a Transnational Legal Order Exist in International Arbitration? The Case of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts
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- Bj枚rn Arp, Fellow, Center on International Commercial Arbitration
Communicating between Courts: The influence of foreign 鈥渓eading cases鈥 in domestic jurisdictions
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- , Professor (Ma卯tre de conf茅rences) at the University of Burgundy (Bourgogne)
Some Thoughts on the Arbitral Legal Order Concept
11:15 鈥 12:45 a.m.:
A Transnational Legal Order and International Commercial Arbitration
- Panel Chair: , Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China
- Panelists:
- , Senior Attorney, Office of General Counsel, Government Accountability Office (GAO), Washington, D.C.
Recognition of Foreign Arbitral Awards: The Success of the New York Convention in U.S. Courts and its Signal Contribution to International Arbitration
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- , Lawyer, Universidad Nacional de Asunci贸n
Who is liable? The good, the bad and the ugly in the Interim Measures of International Commercial Arbitration
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- , Ph.D. Candidate, Queen Mary University of London
Transnational Legal Order in International Arbitration: The Case of Corruption
Arbitration in FRAND-related disputes: challenges and issues
12:45听pm: End of first day
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DAY 2 - Thursday, November 11, 2021
9:00 鈥 10:30 a.m.:
A Transnational Legal Order and Investment Arbitration
- Panel Chair: , Conseiller Juridique, droits hispanophones,听Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
听 - Panelists:
- Mary Mitsi, Lecturer in Commercial Law, Queen Mary university of London
Transnational decision-making: Dialogue between legal systems, arbitrators, and judges
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- , Legal Counsel at GE Renewable Energy, London, and PhD candidate at OU London
The Preliminary Ruling鈥檚 Role in the European Union鈥檚 Persistent Objection鈥 as to the Formation of a Transnational Legal Order
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- , Associate Professor and Chair of the Global Law Initiative, Sussex Law School
The Arbitrability of Antitrust Disputes: The Critics of the Chinese Supreme People鈥檚 Court in Shell v. Huili
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- , Full-time Professor, School of Law, Universidad del Pac铆fico, Per煤
The Evolution of The Lex Mercatoria and the emergence of the Transnational Investment Treaty Lex (TRANSIT Lex)
10:45 a.m. 鈥 12:15 p.m.:
Transnationalism in Action: Preventing Disputes, Allegations of Corruption and International Arbitration
- Panel Chair: , Co-Director, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
- Panelists:
- , Partner, King & Spalding, Washington, D.C.
- , Partner, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D.C.
- , The World Bank Group
12:15 鈥 12:30 p.m.:
Conclusions and Closing Remarks
- Prof. Dr. Horacio A. Grigera Na贸n, Director, Center on International Commercial Arbitration, AUWCL
- Prof. Dr. , Co-Director, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law