March 22, 2011: The Impact of BIT Arbitration on Latin American Commercial Arbitration: Good or Bad News?
This conference which will take place at American University Washington College of Law in Washington and is co-organized with the Inter-American Bar Association (IABA), will discuss the way Bilateral Investment Treaty Arbitration has influenced commercial arbitration in Latin America with a special emphasis on the interaction between national courts and arbitral tribunals and the relationship of national and non-national sources of law in the region. CLE credit is available. Faculty experts include: Fernando Cantuarias Salaverry, Universidad Del Pacífico School of Law; Paolo Di Rosa, Arnold & Porter LLP; Claudia Frutos-Peterson, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP; Alvaro Galindo, Office of the Attorney General, Republic of Ecuador; Oscar Garibaldi, Covington & Burling LLP; Francisco González de Cossío, González de Cossío Abogados, S.C.; Horacio Grigera Naón, Center on International Commercial Arbitration; Lorena Perez, International Arbitration Law Committee, IABA; John H. Rooney, International Arbitration Law Committee, IABA and Shutts & Bowen LLP; Fernando Mantilla-Serrano, Shearman & Sterling LLP; Lluis Paradell Trius, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.

  May 31 – June 17, 2011: 2011 Specialized Summer Program.
Taught by leading practitioners and arbitrators, the International Arbitration Summer program is a unique and concentrated three-week program that addresses fundamental issues of commercial arbitration from a theoretical and a practical point of view. The Program is designed to provide practitioners with critical skills training in international commercial arbitration as well as CLE credit (12 CLE credits per course, 14 in NY). Course offerings in English include: Nuts and Bolts of International Commercial Arbitration; Investor-State Arbitration: Current Developments; International Arbitration and Choice-of-Law Issues; Advanced Seminar: Practical Skills and Cross-Examination in International Arbitration and Contributions of the ICC Court of Arbitration to the Practice of International Commercial Arbitration. The Session also includes a program in Spanish.

  Seventh Annual Leading Arbitrators’ Symposium On The Conduct of International Arbitration – Vienna, April 18, 2011

  Fifth Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference: A Debate and Discussion. Investment Arbitration in the Asia-Pacific Region. Washington,  D.C. -  April 5, 2011 



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