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May 26-29
Tuesday-Friday
6-9pm
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Investor-State Arbitration: Current Developments
(1 credit)
Professor: Jean Kalicki
Guest Speakers:
Stanimir Alexandrov; Marinn Carlson, Jennifer Haworth McCandless and
James Mendenhall; and Suzana Medeiros Blades.
Provides an overview of arbitration
under Investment Treaties – including NAFTA (chapter 11) arbitration – and ICSID
Arbitration of Disputes under Investment Treaties. The course will also address
“hot topics” in Investor-State Arbitration including transparency and third party
participation, denial of justice and resort to local courts, provisional measures, parallel
proceedings and diplomatic protection, substantive issues in annulment proceedings,
proposals for appeal mechanisms, and enforcement of awards. |
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May 26-29
Tuesday-Friday,
1-4pm
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Arbitraje Comercial Internacional (Spanish only)
(1 crédito)
Profesores: Horacio Grigera Naón y Claudia Frutos Peterson
El curso tiene por objeto brindar una introducción general
al arbitraje comercial internacional e incluye los siguientes temas: elementos básicos
del arbitraje internacional, el acuerdo arbitral, cómo redactar una cláusula de arbitraje,
el derecho aplicable, inicio del arbitraje, la constitución y organización del
tribunal arbitral, imparcialidad e independencia de los árbitros, conducción del proceso,
audiencias arbitrales y reconocimiento y ejecución de los laudos arbitrales.
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May 26-29
Tuesday-Friday,
2-5pm
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Nuts and Bolts of International Commercial Arbitration
(1 credit)
Professors: Ronald Goodman and Loukas Mistelis.
Provides a general overview of international commercial arbitration focusing on the following key issues: general explanation of the different institutions and rules of arbitration, institutional and ad-hoc arbitration, when to arbitrate and when to litigate, how to draft an arbitration clause. |
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June 1-5
Mo, Tu, We and Fr,
6-8pm
Th, 5-9pm
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Advanced Seminar: Practical Skills and Cross-Examination in International
Arbitration
(1 credit)
Professors: David Wagoner and Jose Astigarraga
Offers a practical view of the international
arbitration process from the constitution of the arbitral tribunal to the preparation
of the award. Lectures on key aspects of the process will be followed by
role playing.
Registration deadline: June 1, 2009
Note:
This course includes the Advanced Seminar: Cross-Examination in International Arbitration
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June 8-11
Monday-Thursday
2-5pm
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International Arbitration and Choice-of-Law Issues
(1 credit)
Professor: Horacio Grigera Naón
Deals with practical aspects of choice-of-law problems in international arbitration cases concerning both the procedure and the merits.
Registration deadline: June 8, 2009 |
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June 8-11
Monday-Thursday
6-9pm |
Salient Issues in ICC Arbitration
(1 credit)
Professor: Eduardo Silva Romero
Guest Speakers:
Nigel Blackaby and Horacio Grigera Naon
The course will address organization of the ICC Court and its Secretariat; main aspects of the ICC rules of Arbitration; selection, confirmation, challenge and replacement of arbitrators; multi-party and complex arbitration issues; granting of interim and conservatory measures; organization of the procedure; ICC’s Terms of Reference; parallel arbitration proceedings; and, will analyze specific ICC cases to illustrate how procedural and substantive law issues are dealt with in practice in ICC arbitration.
Registration deadline: June 8, 2009
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Monday June 1
10:00 am to 12:00 pm and
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
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Independent Study: The Federal Arbitration Act
(1 credit)
Professor: Janis Brennan
This course offering will follow guidelines for credit determined by WCL’s independent study guidelines and will be introduced by four hours of class time that will take place June 1, 2009, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. The lectures will be presented by Janis Brennan, Partner, Foley Hoag, and cover the structure of the FAA, how it works in practice, and current "hot topics" in the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in the United States. The course will conclude with a brief case study of the U.S. courts role in an international commercial arbitration dispute betweenU.S. andLatin American companies involving a commodities shipment from a third country."
To earn one credit, students will be required to write a 20 to 25 page paper (see wcl.american.edu/studentaffairs/independentstudy.cfm for details) which will be due on July 20, 2009.
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