International ADR: Global Disputes Practicum (LAW-835-001)
Charles Kotuby, Luke Sobota
Meets: 03:00 PM - 05:50 PM (Th)
Enrolled: 9 / Limit: 22
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Description
This practicum provides students a unique opportunity to explore the evolving area of cross-border disputes with sovereign entities, while obtaining substantial stand-up advocacy experience that will translate into any dispute-resolution setting.
Based upon a realistic simulation of an international dispute between a U.S. company and a foreign country, students will prepare submissions that they will then argue to mock panels comprised of former U.S. judges, prominent arbitrators, and leading practitioners. Experiences will include mock U.S. litigation and investment and commercial arbitrations. Two classes are also dedicated to mediation. Students will leave with first-hand experience in the substantive and procedural aspects of international litigation and arbitration involving sovereign entities.
Every few weeks, the students will receive a detailed “case development” notice concerning some new facet of the case. After in-class discussion of the issues the relevant legal issues, the students will be divided into teams and tasked with preparing written and oral presentations. The practicums provide a great opportunity for students to hone their advocacy skills in ways that will be beneficial for all form of litigation.
The course thus offers a balance of lectures, written advocacy and stand-up experience before varied audiences; and students will be assessed on their written and oral performance. The class will also include a tour of the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investor Disputes (ICSID), one of the world’s leading facilities for resolving disputes with sovereign States—through multiple processes including conciliation, expert determination, mediation, and arbitration.
Textbooks and Other Materials
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First Class Readings
Jan Paulsson, International Arbitration is not Arbitration, STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION REVIEW (2008:2); NIGEL BLACKABY, CONSTANTINE PARTASIDES, ET AL., REDFERN AND HUNTER ON INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION (6th ed., 2015), Chapter 1; Karl P. Sauvant,
Syllabus
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