Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to share with you the most recent information regarding our 2011 activities. As you know, we go to great lengths to secure the participation of leading practitioners in the field of international arbitration. We hope that you will join us to contribute to the discussion – beginning with our event on April 26 on “Current Trends of Investment Arbitration in Latin America and Annulment Proceedings” which has been organized in cooperation with the New York-DC Chapter of the Spanish Arbitration Club. Details regarding this and our other activities are provided below.

I look forward to seeing you soon.

Kind regards,

Horacio A. Grigera Naón
Director, Center on International Commercial Arbitration

Arbitration in Latin America and Annulment Proceedings
April 26, 2011 - 2:30 P.M. - 5:30 P.M.

This conference, co-organized by the Center on International Commercial
Arbitration and the New York-DC Chapter of the Spanish Arbitration Club, will discuss the past, present and future of investment arbitration in Latin America and annulment proceedings. Speakers include: Bernardo Cremades, Jr., Curtis,
Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle; Claudia Frutos- Peterson, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost,
Colt & Mosle; Patricio Grané, Arnold & Porter; Grant Hanessian, Baker & McKenzie; Gonzalo Flores, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes; Michael Nolan, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; Judd Kessler, Porter Wright Morris & Arthur; and Andres Rigo Sureda, International Arbitrator.

The conference is free and open to the public, however, registration is required.
To register, please go to https://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/cle_form.cfm. In addition, 2.5 CLE credits will be available for $55. For more information please
click here.

2011 International Arbitration Summer Program
May 31 – June 16, 2011

As you know, American University Washington College of Law offers a summer session on international commercial arbitration in Washington, DC. Our three-week intensive program is designed to provide practitioners critical skills training in international commercial arbitration -- and you can also earn CLE credits (12 CLE credits per course, 14 if NY).

Course offerings in English Include: Nuts and Bolts of International Commercial Arbitration; Investor-State Arbitration; Advanced Seminar: Practical Skills and Cross-Examination in International Arbitration; International Arbitration and Choice-of-Law Issues; and Contributions of the ICC Court of Arbitration to the Practice of International Commercial Arbitration.

Course offerings in Spanish include: Arbitraje Comercial International;  Arbitraje Inversionista – Estado; and  Aspectos Prácticos del Proceso Arbitral.

Featured Seminars: Cross-Examination in International Arbitration and The U.S. Federal Arbitration Act in Practice: Overview, Selected Issues, and a Case Study.

All courses are taught by leading practitioners in the field, including: Jose I. Astigarraga, Partner, Astigarraga Davis; Janis Brennan, Partner, Foley Hoag LLP; Gonzalo Flores, Senior Counsel, ICSID; Claudia Frutos-Peterson, Senior Counsel, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle; Michael Evan Jaffe, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman; Mark Kantor, Independent Arbitrator; Jean Kalicki, Partner, Arnold & Porter; Louis B. Kimmelman, Partner, Allen & Overy; Dana MacGrath, Senior Counsel, Allen & Overy; Fernando Mantilla Serrano, Shearman & Sterling; Loukas Mistelis, Director, School of International Arbitration at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies; Queen Mary University of London; Eduardo Silva Romero, Partner, Dechert; Laurence Shore, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; and Anne Marie Whitesell, Of Counsel, Dechert.

For more information, please visit www.wcl.american.edu/arbitration or call 202-274-4321.

Eighth Annual Seminar: How to Handle Agency and Distribution Issues in International Commercial Arbitration
October 11– 13, 2011

This seminar will feature a mock case that will be discussed principally from the perspective of the Rules of Arbitration of the American Arbitration Association's International Centre for Dispute Resolution. Through dynamic interactive lectures and scenario-based exercises, participants will be taught skills, strategies, and tactics for successfully conducting international arbitration cases on various factual and legal bases.  Co-sponsors:  American Arbitration Association, International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes. More

Sixth Annual Lecture on International Commercial Arbitration
November 8, 2011

The annual lecture offers an eminent figure in international arbitration a platform on which to share his or her ideas on novel issues and current trends in international arbitration. This year's
lecture will be presented by Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, Partner, Lévy- Kaufmann-Kohler.

Symposium: Salient Issues in International Commercial Arbitration
November 16, 2011

Leading practitioners and academics will analyze salient issues in BIT and ICSID arbitration and current developments in international commercial arbitration in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Middle and Far East. Speakers include: Henry Alvarez QC, Partner, Fasken Martineau; George A. Bermann, Gelhorn Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law,  Columbia University School of Law; Nigel Blackaby, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Bernardo Cremades, Partner, Cremades and Associates; Ahmed Sadek El-Kosheri, Senior Partner, Kosheri, Rashed & Riad;  Juan Fernandez-Armesto, Attorney-at-Law, Armesto & Asociados; Paul Friedland, Partner, White & Case; Dominique Hascher, Presiding Judge, Court of Appeal, Reims; Alastair Henderson, Partner, Herbert Smith; Pierre Mayer, Partner, Dechert; Michael J. Moser, International Arbitrator, Mediator and Attorney-at-Law; and William Park, Professor of Law and  R. Gordon Butler Scholar in International Law, Boston University School of Law. More

News from the Center on International Commercial Arbitration

International Commercial Arbitration Brief
We are happy to announce the first issue of the International Commercial Arbitration Brief. The Brief is a student publication of the Washington College of Law produced
with the assistance of the Center for International Commercial Arbitration. The
purpose of the Brief is to provide timely insights into developments in the field and to highlight trends and practices occurring around the globe. The Brief welcomes pieces from both practitioners and students.

The Brief will publish one issue per semester with a general focus on international commercial arbitration, but will also encompass related areas.  The brief seeks to provide practitioners, academics, and WCL students, an opportunity to collaborate
on and publish articles and resource materials on international arbitration.

Read Commercial Arbitration Brief

2011 Moot Competitions

Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court Competition

Third-year law students Katie Coniglio, Brian Kotick, Willa Obel, and Joe Schlingbaum represented the Washington College of Law at the Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Competition which took place March 14-18, 2011. Twenty-seven teams from countries all over the world participated in the moot.  After the general rounds, WCL advanced to the round of sixteen and was ranked third in the competition.  Ultimately, WCL placed
fifth overall in the competition. 

Coaches included: Danielle Morris of Baker Botts and Neale Bergman of the Office
of International Claims and Investment Disputes, United States Department of State. At
WCL, Bjorn Arp (Visiting Scholar) Sana Onayeva (SJD student) and Visiting Professor Tamara Takacs, supported the team.

Willem C. Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition

Adam Burrowbridge, Diana Pak, Melissa Roca, and David Teslicko represented WCL in the Willem C. Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition which took place in Hong-Kong April 4-10, 2011. David Teslicko received the Neil Kaplan Award for Best
Oralist and Melissa Roca received an Honorable Mention for Best Oralist. The team made it to the “Sweet Sixteen” out of a total of 87 teams from around the world.

The Vis (East) Moot is the sister competition to the Vis Moot, which takes place in Vienna this week. Both competitions are based on the same problem, which this year concerns a contract for the supply of squid, providing for arbitration under the rules of the Chamber of Arbitration of Milan.

Coaches include: James Boykin, attorney at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP; Jennifer Toole,
attorney-adviser at the U.S. Department of State in the Office of the Legal Adviser and WCL alumna (2001); and J. Hess, associate at DLA Piper, WCL alumni (2009) and former student participant in the Willem C. Vis Competition.

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