International and Comparative Law

Disruptive technologies and innovative applications challenge traditional legal frameworks which are often unable to adjust quickly enough to technological innovations, territorial disconnection, and increased speed and mobility of goods, services, money, people and data. This year’s Law, Justice and Development week will be devoted to exploring the different legal aspects of these technologies in the global development context.

In 2012, the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) and its Academic Council launched a program—Preserving Perspectives—to record the oral histories of the leading and most influential arbitrators in the world to provide a record for the future about the evolution of modern international arbitration. The American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) and our Internationally recognized Center on International Commercial Arbitration are delighted to partner with the ITA and offer the first of its kind programming in the United States, namely a forum for a series of interviews with the world’s most prestigious international arbitrators.

Please join us for a day-long symposium with policymakers and academics to discuss current opportunities and challenges in strengthening international labor standards through trade.

Spanning a diverse array of industries and practiced across varied legal systems, international commercial arbitration has wide reaching implications as it helps to create the foundation in which international transactions can thrive. The Symposium on Salient Issues in International Commercial Arbitration is organized biannually by the Center on International Commercial Arbitration with the purpose of presenting a global perspective of current developments in international arbitration throughout the world. The symposium hosts prominent speakers and generates a dialogue for salient issues in BIT and ICSID arbitration, as well as current developments in international commercial arbitration in the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and East Asia.