Trade, Investment and Development Program

In 2012, the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) launched Preserving Perspectives, an effort to record the oral histories of the leading and most influential arbitrators in the world to chronicle the evolution of modern international arbitration.

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Saar Pauker, Visiting Scholar at WCL, faculty member from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and partner at the Israel based firm, Herzog, Fox & Neeman in their litigation and dispute resolution department.

This Symposium focuses on the duties, rights and powers of international arbitrators in investment arbitration disputes. Papers will be published in "The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals". The event is co-organized with Universidad Externado (Colombia) and Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain).

Brought to you by American University Washington College of Law (WCL) and sponsored by Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP.  The lecture will be presented by Pierre Mayer, and  will be held Thursday, October 5, 2017 in the Paul Porter Conference Room (11th Floor), Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, 601 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20001. 

This workshop will offer participants mini crash courses in international trade, investment, and arbitration law. We will have practitioners from each respective field teaching the basics, as well as upper level students providing their insight on relevant courses and internships.

The XIII Annual Symposium on International Trade will address current issues in a series of panels:  What is happening around the globe following the new mindset in Washington, including China, South American, and the EU;  the US is avoiding multilateral trade agreements, renegotiating NAFTA and engaging in one-to-one talks with specific trade partners, leveraging its own priorities: is the focus on bilateral agreements the answer?

Professor Rebecca Tushnet will deliver the 6th Annual Peter A. Jaszi Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property, hosted by the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University Washington College of Law.

The intellectual property and new digital trade chapters of the North American Free Trade Agreement are emerging as among the most contentious aspects of the NAFTA renegotiation.  For decades, consumers, advocates and technology companies have been stuck in a defensive posture, criticizing more restrictive trade provisions and efforts to impose domestic reforms through trade negotiations.