Legally Blonde Movie Night
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
Arbitration in Times of Economic Nationalism
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
- Seminar
- Open To Alumni AND Students
Symposium on Salient Issues in International Commercial Arbitration
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
Regulatory Aspects of the US-China Trade War
- Lecture
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Food Integrity Campaign - 10th Anniversary Event
November 15, 2019 – All-day Conference at American University Washington College of Law: This event will be held at Grossman Hall. Registration and continental breakfast begin at 8:30am. Join us for a full day of influential panelists and speakers discussing food integrity issue areas such as environmental impacts and climate change, worker rights, public health, and animal welfare. A climate-conscious lunch will be provided free of charge.
- Underrepresented Truth: Exploring inadequate and unequal access to environmental justice (unique challenges of low-wage workers, immigrants, undocumented workers and the rural poor.
- Overcoming legal bars to truth-telling: Legal professionals discuss industry tricks of the trade such as veggie libel, SLAPP suits, defamation threats, non-disclosure agreements, and sealing documents.
- Contract Farmers and the Growing Resistance in Rural America: Former whistleblowers and their allies who challenge corrupt corporate farming models.
- Fast Food: Impacts of USDA’s Increased Pork and Poultry Line Speeds. What does this mean for workers, animals, food safety and the environment?
- Food and Climate Change: The truth about how what we eat can affect the planet. Panelist discuss the role of agriculture in the mitigation of our climate crises.
- Conference
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff