Ethical Issues in Commercial and Investment Arbitration
March 8, 2012
American University Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
Mooers-Morella Ceremonial Courtroom (Room 603)
Online Registration
Program aproved for 3
Ethics CLE in
Virginia and Pennsylvania (reciprocity with New York).
Credits are available for $165 ($55.00 per hour/credit)
Agenda
2:00 P.M. - 2:15 P.M. Opening Remarks
Horacio Grigera Naón
Director, Center on International Commercial Arbitration
2:15 P.M. - 3:15 P.M.
Panel I: Ethical issues and conflicts of interest from the arbitrator’s perspective.
Moderator:
Lorena Perez McGill
International Arbitration Law Committee, Inter-American Bar Association
Attorney, Department of Legal Services, General Secretariat of the Organization of American States
Panelists:
Jean Kalicki
Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP
Luis M. Martínez
Vice President, International Centre for Dispute Resolution
Andrés Rigo
Arbitrator
DC and NY Chapter, Spanish Arbitration Club
3:15 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. Coffee Break
3:30 P.M. - 4:30 P.M.
Panel II: Ethical issues from the practitioner’s perspective.
Moderator:
Jeffrey F. Pryce
Of Counsel, Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Panelists:
Marinn Carlson
Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Caroline Richard
Associate,
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Ignacio Torterola
Head of Legal Section, Embassy of Argentina
4:30 P.M. - 4:45P.M. Coffee Break
4:45 P.M. - 5:45 P.M.
Panel III: Recusing Arbitrators: The Interaction between Arbitral Institutions and National Courts.
Moderator:
Borzu Sabahi
Associate, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, LLP
Panelists:
Christian Albanesi
Counsel, ICC International Court of Arbitration
Catherine A. Rogers
Professor of Law, Penn State Dickinson School of Law
Eduardo Siqueiros Twomey
Partner, Barrera, Siqueiros y Torres Landa SC
5:45 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Closing Remarks
Horacio Grigera Naón
Director, Center on International Commercial Arbitration




