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2016

The 8th Transnational Commercial Law Teachers Meeting will be held in Washington, D.C. on 17 and 18 November 2016. It will be co-sponsored by the International Law Institute and the Center on Transnational Business and the Law, part of Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute on International Economic Law.

This year’s meeting will be devoted to ‘State of Affairs and Recent Developments in International Commercial Arbitration: New York Convention, UNCITRAL Rules 2010 and Current Work on Settlement of Commercial Disputes’.

The programme of the conference

Thursday

8:30	Morning coffee and pastries/fruit
9:00	Welcome and Introduction to the Conference (15 min)
9:15	Opening Presentation: Mark A. Cymrot (BakerHostetler), “Recent Developments in the Law of International Commercial Arbitration” (30 min)
9:45	Panel Discussion: Herbert Kronke (Heidelberg Univ.), Patricia Nacimiento (Herbert Smith Freehills), Dirk Otto (Gobbers & Denk), Nicola C. Port (Debevoise & Plimpton), “The 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: Update on Global Case Law and the Way Forward” (60 min with discussion)
10:45	Morning Break
11:00	Roundtable Discussions (1) Arbitral Institutions, Roles and Activities (45 min) Anne Marie Whitesell, moderator (Georgetown University Law Center) Andrea Carlevaris (Secretary General, ICC International Court of Arbitration) Gretta Walters (Chaffetz Lindsay New York, formerly Stockholm Chamber) Eloïse Obadia (Derains & Gharavi; prior Senior Counsel ICSID) (2) Perspectives of the parties and practitioners (45 min) Elliot Polebaum (Fried Frank), moderator Roland G. Schroeder (Global Executive Litigation Counsel, General Electric Company) Mark Kantor (Georgetown Law) Caroline Richard (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer)
12:30	Luncheon speaker: John M. Townsend (Hughes Hubbard Reed), “Between Scylla and Charybdis: How International Commercial Arbitration Steers a Course between Common Law and Civil Law Procedures”
1:30	Presentations (1) Bruno Zeller (Univ. Western Australia): “How to Introduce Students to Arbitration” (30 min) (2) Lee M. Caplan (Arent Fox), “Update on UNCITRAL Rules” (30 min) (3) Henry Gabriel (Elon Univ. School of Law): “Using the Model Clauses for the UNIDROIT Principles as the basis for getting the Principles in arbitrations” (30 min)
3:00	Afternoon Break
3:30	Presentations (1) Caslav Pejovic (Kyushu University), “Validity of Defective Arbitration Clauses: How Far Should Flexibility Go?” (30 min) (2) Student Presentations: (60 min) Won Kidane (Georgetown University Law Center) Hadir Khalifa (American University Washington College of Law) Kate McNulty (George Washington University Law School)
5:00	Open Discussion (30 min)
5:30	Reception On-Site
7:00	Dinner At Will (no host) (list of nearby restaurants available)

Friday

8:30	Morning coffee with pastries/fruit
9:00	Presentations (1) Antonio Perez (Catholic Univ.), “Issues of Public Policy and the Utility of Article 34” (30 min) (2) Panel Discussion: Peter Winship (Dedman School of Law), Tim Schnabel (U.S. Dept. State), Hal Abramson (Touro Law): “Report on the UNCITRAL Project on the Enforcement of Settlements of Commercial Disputes” (45 min) (3) John Coyle (UNC Law), “Role of the CISG in U.S. Contract Practice” (30 min)
10:45	Morning break
11:00	Faculty Discussion: “Updates on the Curriculum for Teaching Transnational Commercial Law" (90 min) Moderator: Louise Ellen Teitz (Roger Williams Law) Participants: David Gantz, Don DeAmicis, Marcia Wiss (Georgetown Law)
12:30	Luncheon Speaker: Prof. Symeon Symeonides (Willamette Univ.), "Party Autonomy: A Comparative Look"
1:30	Presentations (1) Ulrich Schroeter (Univ. Mannheim), “Party Autonomy in Institutional Arbitration: the Difficult Case of ‘Mix and Match’ Agreements” (30 min) (2) Charles N. Brower (20 Essex Street), "The Future Shape Of International Arbitration" (30 min)
3:00	Afternoon break
3:30	Presentations (1) Miklós Király (Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest), “Application of Soft Law Instruments in Arbitration in Central Europe” (30 min) (2) Risham Garg (National Law University, Delhi), “Choice of Law & Choice of Courts Issues in India” (30 min) (3) Alvaro Galindo (Dechert LLP), “Developments in International Investment Arbitration” (30 min)
5:00	Closing Discussion. Invitation to the 9^th Conference. (60 min)
7:00	Farewell Reception and Dinner

Saturday

Optional Program on the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts

8:30	Morning Coffee with Pastries/Fruit
9:00	Introduction: Origins, Objectives, Structure and Key Features of the Principles
9:30	The EU and the Convention
10:00	Impact on “Third Countries” (non-EU European States and OAS Member States)
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Relevance of ALI’s work on Restatement of Conflict of Laws
11:30	Open Discussion
1:00	Conclusion

Responsible: Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Herbert Kronke

Latest Revision: 2017-01-19