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In celebration of Women’s month, the Academy will host Celebrating Bright Minds: Important Conversations with Women Experts in the Human Rights Field, a two-discussion series addressing human rights violations against women capturing diverse global perspectives of reoccurring abuses.

Event co-sponsored by: Women's Link Worldwide, WCL's War Crimes Research Office and the Women and the Law Program

Alexis Early is a partner in King & Spalding’s International Trade Group, where she helps devise regulatory and policy solutions for clients. Alexis counsels companies, financial institutions, and individuals on economic sanctions, export controls, anti-money laundering, and CFIUS national security reviews of foreign investments. She represents clients in compliance and enforcement proceedings before the Treasury Department, State Department, Commerce Department, and Department of Homeland Security, and advocates for them on Capitol Hill.

Alexis counsels clients in the financial services and insurance, energy, aerospace and defense, IT/telecom, emerging technology, food and agriculture, shipping and logistics, and education/humanitarian sectors.

Alexis frequently conducts due diligence for M&A transactions and advises parties on whether to make CFIUS filings, how to navigate the CFIUS review process, and how to implement CFIUS mitigation. Often in parallel, she advises clients with classified operations on foreign ownership, control, and influence mitigation. She regularly counsels clients on licensing and compliance with the EAR, the ITAR, and OFAC sanctions regulations, including creating compliance programs and conducting trainings. Alexis also conducts internal investigations and assists clients in submitting disclosures of regulatory violations.

Alexis has advised foreign embassies, state-owned enterprises, and foreign sovereigns on their engagement with Capitol Hill and the federal government, and she counseled a pro-democracy opposition party in the Caucasus through its ultimately successful election campaigns.  She has implemented strategic advocacy campaigns related to economic sanctions, international trade and multilateral trade agreements, defense cooperation, energy security, foreign assistance, and immigration policy.

Alexis holds BAs in Political Science and Philosophy from Wellesley College and a JD from American University Washington College of Law. While in law school, Alexis was the founding editor-in-chief of the American University Business Law Review, the first comprehensive business law journal in Washington, DC. Prior to law school, she monitored multiple elections in Central America.

Please join Dr. Nitzberg for a wide-ranging mountain-peaks-tour of AI impacts, focusing on the dangers and negatives.

This event will feature comments by Professor Ken Anderson and will be moderated by Professor Padideh Ala'i.

Dr. Mark Nitzberg is a computer scientist and entrepreneur focused on the effects of AI and related technologies on our society, economy and democracy. Having worked with the founders of the field of AI, he brings business experience and a solid technology foundation to recent work engaging in broader debates. He is primarily concerned with tackling AI governance issues and the risk of social, economic, and political harms from the unchecked power of dominant digital platform companies.

Dr. Nitzberg is Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI, Head of Strategic Outreach at the Berkeley AI Research Lab, and Director of Technology Research at BRIE, the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. In industry, he has built technology ventures applying AI in health care, finance, education and data analytics for developing regions. He has worked at Bell Laboratories, Microsoft, and Amazon, and run operations of 300 persons on $30M annual budgets.

He is co-author of Solomon’s Code — an examination of AI and how it reshapes human values, trust, and power around the world — and has published a number of pieces on AI impacts and governance.

This webinar provides recent updates on jurisprudential developments in leading arbitration jurisdictions around the world. Each panelist will focus on the latest judgment or judgments that have an impact on arbitration, and provide comments on the trends that these judgments may represent. This includes issues directly involved with arbitrations seated in those jurisdictions, or with issues arising out of recognition and enforcement procedures. The panelists will focus on trends in Australia, China, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

The event provides an opportunity to celebrate the diverse and prominent alumni of AUWCL’s Center on International Commercial Arbitration. Since 2004, the Center has provided training through for-credit courses, summer courses, certificate courses, moot competitions, and most recently an LL.M. program, to various generations of arbitration practitioners. Today, the more than one thousand and five hundred alumni of the Center that work in arbitration-related fields span the entire world and all major jurisdictions and legal traditions.