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Center on International Commercial Arbitration

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. Registration is required.

day 1 -Wednesday, November 10, 2021

9:00 – 9:30a.m.:
Opening Remarks

  • Prof. Dr. Horacio A. Grigera Naón, 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– 11:00a.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

    • Björn Arp, Fellow, Center on International Commercial Arbitration

Communicating between Courts: The influence of foreign “leading cases” in domestic jurisdictions

    • , Professor (Maître de conférences) at the University of Burgundy (Bourgogne)

Some Thoughts on the Arbitral Legal Order Concept

11:15 – 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

    • , Lawyer, Universidad Nacional de Asunción

Who is liable? The good, the bad and the ugly in the Interim Measures of International Commercial Arbitration

    • , Ph.D. Candidate, Queen Mary University of London

Transnational Legal Order in International Arbitration: The Case of Corruption

    • , PhD candidate at Tilburg University

Arbitration in FRAND-related disputes: challenges and issues

12:45pm: End of first day

DAY 2 - Thursday, November 11, 2021

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.:
A Transnational Legal Order and Investment Arbitration

  • Panel Chair: , Conseiller Juridique, droits hispanophones,Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
  • Panelists:
    • Mary Mitsi, Lecturer in Commercial Law, Queen Mary university of London

Transnational decision-making: Dialogue between legal systems, arbitrators, and judges

    • , Legal Counsel at GE Renewable Energy, London, and PhD candidate at OU London

The Preliminary Ruling’s Role in the European Union’s Persistent Objection’ as to the Formation of a Transnational Legal Order

    • , Associate Professor and Chair of the Global Law Initiative, Sussex Law School

The Arbitrability of Antitrust Disputes: The Critics of the Chinese Supreme People’s Court in Shell v. Huili

    • , Full-time Professor, School of Law, Universidad del Pacífico, Perú

The Evolution of The Lex Mercatoria and the emergence of the Transnational Investment Treaty Lex (TRANSIT Lex)

10:45 a.m. – 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 – 12:30 p.m.:
Conclusions and Closing Remarks

  • Prof. Dr. Horacio A. Grigera Naón, Director, Center on International Commercial Arbitration, AUWCL
  • Prof. Dr. , Co-Director, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law

Event Organizers

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Institut Suisse de Droit Comparé

Co-Sponsors

UNIDROIT
Hague Conference on Private International Law
Bucerius Law School
Escuela Libre de México
Tsinghua University School of Law (Beijing)
African Arbitration Academy

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