Nov 13 Wed
2019

A Conversation with Congressman Gil Cisneros

06:30PM - 07:30PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom

The Program on Law and Government and LaLSA present: A Conversation with Congressman Gil Cisneros. Cisneros (D-CA) is a Congressman for California’s 39th Congressional District, and previously served as Lt. Commander in the U.S. Navy. He is a founding member of the bipartisan “For Our Country” Caucus of members who have served in our nation’s military and put country above politics. He is also a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus working to address issues of concern to our nation’s largest demographic group. The conversation will be moderated by Professor Louis Caldera.

  • Information Session
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Nov 13 Wed
2019

Legally Blonde Movie Night

07:00PM - 09:00PM

Come de-stress with the Women's Law Association before finals begin with snacks, coloring, and Elle Woods! We'll be in the second side of Claudio Grossman Hall (YT01-02) from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm on Wednesday, November 13. This event is organized in collaboration with the Women and the Law Program, the Office of Student Affairs, and the Office of Academic Excellence. We are also grateful to the Library for their support!

  • Performance
  • Open To Students
Nov 14 Thu
2019

Arbitration in Times of Economic Nationalism

09:00AM - 05:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom

This event includes five panels featuring speakers whose works were selected and based on a call for papers.  Authors will share the panel with an expert in the field who will act as chairs:

Economic crises, financial volatility, social transformations, and political instability around the world have created a favorable environment for economic nationalism and other movements that may prove disruptive of the global economic world order that arose after the Cold War. International commercial and investment arbitration are particularly sensitive to such trends. The symposium seeks to critically assess the current status quo and the various options that lay ahead for international arbitration in times of  nationalism

 The final papers will be published as a hard copy in book format and in electronic format by the online journal Transnational Dispute Management (TDM), the media partner of this Symposium. Please click here to read more. 

The event is free and open to the public. Advanced registration is required. Please click here to register.

Program:

9:00 A.M. – 9:15 A.M.    Opening Remarks and Symposium Introduction

Horacio A. Grigera Naón
Director, Center on International Commercial Arbitration
American University Washington College of Law                                

9:15 A.M. – 10:30 A.M.  Panel I:  Public Policy Considerations in International Arbitration

Panel Chair:
Jingzhou Tao, Managing Partner, Dechert LLP, Beijing, China.

10:30 A.M. – 10:40 A.M.  Break

10:40 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. Panel II: Policy Trends Regarding International Commercial Arbitration: a Global Comparison

Panel Chair: Jane Y. Willems, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing.

12:00 P.M. –1:00 P.M.   Light Lunch

1:00 P.M. – 2:10 P.M. Panel III: Trends in the Regulation of International Commercial Arbitration                               

Panel Chair: Bjorn Arp, Adjunct Professor. American University Washington College of Law

2:10 P.M. – 2:20 P.M.     Break

2:20 P.M. – 3:40 P.M.     Panel IV: Nationalistic Trends in Investment Arbitration.                                      

Panel Chair: Arif H. Ali, Partner, Dechert LLP.

3:40 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.     Break

4:00 P.M. – 5:20 P.M.     Panel VI
Regional Trends in International Investment Arbitration: Fragmentation vs. a Global Approach.

Panel Chair: Nigel Blackaby, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

5:20 P. M. – 5:30 P.M.    Closing remarks
Horacio A. Grigera Naón

This symposium is organized with the institutional sponsorship of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS) in Bonn (Germany), the World Trade Institute in Bern (Switzerland), and the Externado University in Bogotá (Colombia).  Sponsors include ASIL and Dechert LLP. Media Partner: TDM.

  • Seminar
  • Open To Alumni AND Students
Nov 14 Thu
2019

Symposium on Salient Issues in International Commercial Arbitration

09:00AM - 05:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom

Economic crises, financial volatility, social transformations, and political instability around the world have created a favorable environment for economic nationalism and other movements that may prove disruptive of the global economic world order that arose after the Cold War. International commercial and investment arbitration are particularly sensitive to such trends. The symposium seeks to critically assess the current status quo through five panels featuring speakers whose works have been selected based on a call for papers.  Panel chairs include: Jingzhou Tao, Managing Partner, Dechert LLP, Beijing, China; Jane Y. Willems, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing; Bjorn Arp, Adjunct Professor. American University Washington College of Law;  Arif H. Ali, Partner, Dechert LLP; and Nigel Blackaby, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.

This symposium is organized with the institutional sponsorship of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS) in Bonn (Germany), the World Trade Institute in Bern (Switzerland), the Sharjah International Commercial Arbitration Centre (United Arab Emirates), the School of Law of the Tsinghua University (China), the Externado University in Bogotá (Colombia), and the World Trade Institute.  Sponsors include ASIL and Dechert LLP.  Selected papers will be published by Transnational Dispute Management (TDM), media partner of this Symposium.

The event is free and open to the public and will take place at WCL located 4300 Nebraska Ave. N.W., Washington DC.

CLE credit will be available for the Symposium at the registration desk upon payment.

  • Conference
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Nov 14 Thu
2019

Regulatory Aspects of the US-China Trade War

06:00PM - 08:00PM Tenley Campus - Capital C116 Weinstein Courtroom

Roiling financial markets for the past year, the U.S.-China trade war may be nearing a preliminary truce. Nonetheless, structural factors in the economic relationship between the two countries will continue to be sources of tension for the foreseeable future. This panel, featuring experts from the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, will delve into two of the more difficult issues that have confronted trade negotiators and will likely remain sticking points, namely, the rules around foreign investment and market access in China, and competition in the area of technology.

Speakers:

• Zhou Hanhua, Professor of Law and Deputy Director in the Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
• Liao Fan, Senior Fellow and Professor at the Institute of International Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
• Jennifer Daskal, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law (tentative)
• Jamie Horsley, Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Visiting Lecturer-in-law at Yale Law School and Visiting Fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at The Brookings Institution.
• Neysun Mahboubi, Research Scholar, University of Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Contemporary China
Moderator:
• Padideh Ala'i, Professor of Law and Director of the International and Comparative Legal Studies Program, American University Washington College of Law

  • Lecture
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff