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The five-day Düsseldorf International Arbitration School aims at providing young practitioners, post graduates and advanced students – especially Moot Court participants – with the requisite specific knowledge. The School is based on a highly practical, inter-active teaching concept. Participants get the rare opportunity to improve their skills and knowledge in both the law and practice of international commercial arbitration.

The American Law Institute has begun work on the Restatement (Third) of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration. In drafting an American restatement of an international subject, "fault lines" may appear - unresolved or controversial issues that are not viewed the same way in all cultures or legal systems. This conference will examine such issues under two broad headings: How national is international arbitration? And what are the limits of party autonomy?

The UIA is proud to present its first international seminar organised in Syria, jointly with the Syrian Bar Association.

If a company or client has a dispute arising out of a contract with a foreign party, international arbitration represents the best method of resolving that dispute in a neutral forum and enforcing any subsequent award. However, the resolution of international business disputes through arbitration raises issues that are simply not present in the litigation context. In many ways, arbitration offers more choices than litigation. What is the appropriate place of arbitration? Under which rules should you arbitrate? How many arbitrators should you have? Which arbitrator should you choose? How can you make the proceeding more efficient? This program will address these and other critical issues and give the information needed to successfully navigate the international arbitration process.

This year's program will cover Perspectives on Arbitration in the Middle East, a timely topic in light of the anticipated increase in disputes in the region following the world's economic crisis and the opening of the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution (BCDR-AAA). The keynote speaker will be John Townsend, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP. The program will take the form of a moderated panel discussion.

Birgit Kurtz and Baiju Vasani are invited to sit as mock arbitrators at this event.

The featured speaker is John Beechey, Chairman of the ICC International Court of Arbitration.

The ArbitralWomen Association and the American Bar Association’s Women’s Interest Network (WIN) are supporting this event.

The Arab countries are experiencing a remarkable economic growth. This applies not only to the oil rich countries in the region, but also generally to the Arab World. Along with economic growth, however, there is a rapid increase in disputes. The Arab World will thus play a major role in international arbitration in the coming years. The Conference will deal with critical issues in international arbitration involving parties from the Arab World. • What are the options in the Arab countries and outside of them? • How do courts in the Arab countries deal with arbitral agreements, arbitrability issues, and enforcement of awards? • What are the arbitral procedures? • How is investment arbitration dealt with? • Which are the favoured venues outside the Arab countries and what factors determine the choice of arbitration.

An exciting mix of a large number of cutting-edge programs with world class experts in a wide array of international law subjects providing valuable insights on important current developments. These programs will be organized into special tracks to assure that there is substantial content readily accessible to your specific area(s) of interest. These tracks include international dispute resolution, international business law, and public international law, among others. Three top flight evening networking receptions so that you can discuss the latest legal, ethical and international issues with contemporaries from across the United States and around the world. The meeting will also have special programming for young lawyers.

A half-day symposium preceding the second LCIA European Users’ Council Symposium for 2008.

The conference will explore cross-cultural issues that play an important role in international arbitration, and provide arbitration users and counsel with practical insights into how these differences should be understood and managed in order to ensure an efficient, functional, and successful international arbitration.

This conference aims to explore the many different faces of “international economic law” in order to reflect critically on its past, present and future paths. It will seek to explore issues concerning the content of the discipline, its evolution as a distinct field, and its relation with other fields of study.

The Forum is an invited gathering of professionals with an active interest in arbitration of competition law/anti-trust disputes. The meeting has the usual structured form with presentations and discussions. In 2008 there will be three strands - developments in the EU merger control, developments in the USA and enforcement.

With over a century of tradition and experience behind it, ASIL's Annual Meeting has become the most important gathering in the field of international law. More than 1,000 practitioners, academics, and students travel to Washington, D.C. each spring from all over the world to debate and discuss the latest developments in their field.

Dan Vielleville, a counsel with Crowell & Moring's International Dispute Resolution group, will moderate a panel entitled "The Latest Developments In The Region On The Law Of Arbitration."

In an ever more globalised world, increasingly based on private sector investments in foreign economies, the issue of investment protection is becoming increasingly important. Over recent decades, the business and legal communities have seen legal protection through arbitration based on bilateral and multilateral investment treaties gaining importance. This conference will offer a framework within which to address many of the issues surrounding modern investment arbitration, both with regard to jurisdictional issues and substantive standards of protection available to an investor. Over fifteen high profile panelists from law firms, universities and international organizations in Switzerland and abroad will present topics of particular interest to practising lawyers, corporate counsel, interested business persons, arbitrators and academics. The conference will be chaired by Professors Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler and Pierre Tercier.