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 – 9:30 a.m.:
Opening Remarks

• Prof. Dr. Horacio A. Grigera Naón, Director, Center on International Commercial Arbitration, AUWCL
• Prof. Dr. Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer, Co-Director, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
• Prof. Dr. Ignacio Tirado, Secretary-General, UNIDROIT, Rome
• Prof. Dr. Christophe Bernasconi, Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), The Hague

9:30 – 11:00 a.m.:
The Application of UNIDROIT Principles in International Commercial Arbitration

• Panel Chair: Ignacio Tirado Secretary-General, UNIDROIT, Rome
• Panelists:
  • Michael Joachim Bonell, Professor Emeritus at the University of Rome I Sapienza; Consultant, Unidroit; Editor-in-Chief, UNILEX; and Eleonora Finazzi Agrò, 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

• • Sébastien Manciaux, 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: Jane Willems, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China
• Panelists:
  • Oluwaseun O. Ajayi, 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

• • Pedro Lacasa, Lawyer, Universidad Nacional de Asunción

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

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

Transnational Legal Order in International Arbitration: The Case of Corruption

• • Maryam Pourrahin, PhD candidate at Tilburg University

Arbitration in FRAND-related disputes: challenges and issues

12:45 pm: 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: Rodrigo Polanco Lazo, 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

• • Ioana Bratu, 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

• • Qingxiu Bu, 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

• • Andres Talavera, 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: Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer, Co-Director, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
• Panelists:
  • Aloysius Llamzon, Partner, King & Spalding, Washington, D.C.
  • Lucinda Low, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D.C.
  • Roberto Echandi, 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. Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer, Co-Director, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law