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GAR Live Singapore - in pictures
December 17, 2019
Pictures of the 5th annual GAR Live Singapore can be found here. GAR Live Singapore was held at Maxwell Chambers on 27 August and was co-chaired by Wade Coriell of King & Spalding and Chiann Bao of Arbitration Chambers. Conference supporters were Profile Investment, Debevoise & Plimpton, Morrison & Foerster and Reed Smith. Supporting organisations were the International Chamber of Commerce, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration. A drinks reception was hosted by Blackrock Expert Services and the speakers' dinner was hosted by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer....
Douglas warns against "siege mentality"
December 16, 2019
In a keynote speech in Prague, Australian arbitrator Zachary Douglas QC of Matrix Chambers argued that although investment arbitration is under constant attack, the arbitration community should not focus on external threats to the system but rather deal with the serious problems of its own making. Jaroslav Kudrna and Anna Bilanová of the Czech Ministry of Finance report. Entitling his speech "The perils of a siege mentality," Douglas remarked that arbitrators and counsel are generally not...
How can women secure leading roles?
December 06, 2019
At the inaugural GAR Live Women in Arbitration, panellists discussed what steps women can take to secure lead counsel and arbitrator roles. Yesterday during a session at Butchers' Hall in London, moderator Rena Scott of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe sought the panel members' advice on building a reputation in the field - looking at key factors for success, how to develop advocacy skills, maintaining a work-life balance and smarter networking. Building a practice Scott asked the panel, composed of...
GAR Live Women in Arbitration - in pictures
December 06, 2019
GAR Live Women in Arbitration took place at Butchers' Hall in London on 5 December. The event was co-chaired by Sylvia Noury, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and Annette Magnusson, Secretary General of the SCC Arbitration Institute. It was supported by 3 Verulam Bulidings, Allen & Overy, AlixPartners and Bentham IMF, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Squire Patton Boggs and Betto Perben Pradel Filhol. The refreshments break was sponsored by White & Case. The GAR Live Women in Arbitration conference exhibitor was JAMS and King & Spalding were the associate sponsor. Supporting organisations were Arbitral Women, ERA and the New York International Arbitration Centre....
The pendulum has swung back
December 06, 2019
In the latest Freshfields lecture, French arbitrator Brigitte Stern has warned that the pendulum has swung back from international dispute resolution to state sovereignty - posing an existential threat to investor-state dispute settlement as we know it. Stern, a professor of international law and one of the world's most prolific arbitrators, said that states have reacted to increasing globalisation by clawing back the sovereignty that they diluted to create an international dispute resolution mechanism...
GAR Live Frankfurt - in pictures
December 05, 2019
Photos for the 6th annual GAR Live Frankfurt can be found here. The 6th annual GAR Live Frankfurt took place on 28 May and was chaired by Anke Meier of Noerr and Daniel Busse of Busse Disputes. The conference was sponsored by Busse Disputes and Burford Capital with the Netherlands Arbitration Institute and Swiss Chambers' Arbitration Institution as supporting organisations. The drinks reception was hosted by Berkeley Research Group....
Bermann on commercial arbitration and its critics
December 04, 2019
In a keynote address at GAR Live Atlanta, Columbia Law School professor George A Bermann argued that international commercial arbitration is well-placed to answer attacks from its critics - while suggesting that its claims to various forms of autonomy may be excessive. Bermann said that appraising international commercial arbitration had led him to conclude that "its hopes have been mostly realised and its fears mostly averted". However, he called on practitioners to recognize that certain developments...
GAR Live Atlanta: in pictures
December 04, 2019
Photos for the 2nd GAR Live Atlanta, held at the Atlanta Centre for Mediation and Arbitration at Georgia State University College of Law, are now available. Chaired by Orrick's global head of international arbitration Charles Adams, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton partner Randall Hafer and White & Case partner Ank Santens, the event was sponsored by Arnall Golden Gregory, Alston & Bird, Kilpatrick Townsend, Orrick, Miller & Martin, King & Spalding, Womble Bond Dickinson, FTI Consulting, Secretariat International and BakerHostetler. Supporting organisations included AtLAS, the Boston International Arbitration Council, the Miami International Arbitration Society and the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution. The event took place as part of a series of events from 8 to 10 September, including the 8th annual AtlAS conference, the Young Arbitrators Forum Organized by ICC YAF and AtlAS Young Practitioners, and the first AtlAS Forum....Author: Tom Jones...
GAR Live Vienna - in pictures
December 02, 2019
Photos from the 3rd Annual GAR Live Vienna can be found here. GAR Live Vienna was co-chaired by Eliane Fischer of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Alice Fremuth-Wolf, secretary general of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC) and Stefan Riegler of Wolf Theiss and the Austrian Arbitration Association. It was held at the VIAC's Sky Lounge, Wiedner Hauptstraße 63, Vienna. The conference was in association with the VIAC, the Austrian Arbitration Association and Yong Austrian Arbitration...
How to deal with economic sanctions
December 02, 2019
A panel at GAR Live Vienna considered the impact of economic sanctions on international arbitration, including whether arbitrators have a duty to enforce sanctions, defences based on force majeure and the difficulties faced by institutions in taking payment of fees. Panel moderator Eliane Fischer of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer asked independent expert Delphine Wietek to provide an overview of the current climate for sanctions. Wietek noted that there are now hundreds of sanctions programmes around...
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