Top Law Firms, Embassies, and U.S. Government Departments to Attend American University Washington College of Law's Annual Lecture on International Commercial Arbitration
Washington, DC - American University Washington College of Law's Fourth Annual Lecture on International Commercial Arbitration, taking place on Thursday, Nov. 5, will be attended by more than 100 representatives from top DC and International law firms, U.S. government, non-governmental organizations, the Embassies of Ecuador, Egypt, Pakistan, Poland, the Dominican Republic, Philippines, and Ukraine, law professors, and students.
Established in 2006, the annual lecture offers a platform for an eminent figure in international arbitration to share his or her ideas on current issues and trends in international arbitration. This year's lecture will feature Jan Paulsson, co-head of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP's international arbitration and public international law groups. Paulsson will sp
eak about "Three Reasons Why International Arbitration Will (Probably) Survive." The lecture will be followed by a reception sponsored by Arnold & Porter LLP.
Paulsson, Principal Consultant, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Paris, has acted as counsel or arbitrator in hundreds of international arbitrations and has conducted cases under the ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, LCIA, and AAA Rules, as well as before the International Court of Justice. Paulsson is president of the London Court of International Arbitration, the World Bank Administrative Tribunal, and the EBRD Administrative Tribunal; and is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. He holds degrees from Harvard, Yale, and the University of Paris.
Paulsson holds the Michael Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair at the University of Miami and is a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. He is a Profesor Honorario of the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. He is the author of several textbooks and numerous articles, in particular the standard reference work ICC Arbitration (3rd edition 2000) which he co-authors with Messrs WL Craig and WW Park. His monograph Denial of Justice in International Law was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005.
Please visit the Center on International Commercial Arbitration website to find out more about past annual lectures or to find out more about all of our CLE programs.
