Interested in International Arbitration?
In response to the increasing demand for specialized courses in
international arbitration, an International Academy for Arbitration
Law will be launched in Paris in July 2011.
The Academy will offer three-week Summer Courses to students and
young practitioners interested in the field, covering both
international commercial arbitration and international
investment arbitration. The Summer Courses will be given in Paris
from 4 July to 22 July 2011, and will be offered in English. They
will include a 15-hour General Course, 5-hour Special Courses,
Workshops on institutional arbitration, as well as an Inaugural
Lecture and The Berthold Goldman Lecture on historic arbitration
stories.
The General Course will alternate between international commercial
arbitration and international investment arbitration. For the first
Session of the Academy in 2011, the General Course will be taught
by Professor Christoph Schreuer who will address "The Development
of Investment Arbitration". The 2011 Session will also offer seven
Special Courses taught by Professor George Bermann, Professor
Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Professor Diego Fernandez Arroyo, Professor
François Knoepfler, Professor Pierre Mayer, Dr. Klaus Sachs, and
Maître Michael Schneider. The 2011 Workshops will be offered by
ICSID (Eloise Obadia), ICC (Simon Greenberg) and the PCA (Brooks
Daly). The Inaugural Lecture will be delivered by Professor Pierre
Lalive on the topic "Is Arbitration a Form of International
Justice?". The Berthold Goldman Lecture on historic arbitration
stories will be given by V.V. Veeder QC on the Lena Goldfield
arbitration.
In 2012, the General Course on commercial arbitration will be
taught by Professor William Park. In 2013, the General Course
on investment arbitration will be taught by Professor David
Caron.
The Academy is an initiative of the French Arbitration Committee
(Comité Français de l'Arbitrage (CFA)) and is presided by Professor
Emmanuel Gaillard. The Board of Directors is composed of the
Academy's President, Alexandre Hory and Yas Banifatemi as
co-Secretary Generals, Jean-Georges Betto as Treasurer, Professor
Marie-Elodie Ancel and Professor Jean-Baptiste Racine as members of
the Selection Committee, and Maitre Philippe Leboulanger as Chair
of the CFA. The Academy also has a Board of Advisors which includes
Professor George Abi-Saab (Egypt), Professor Liza Chen (China),
Professor Eros Grau (Brazil), Professor Horacio Grigera Naon
(Argentina), Judge Gilbert Guillaume (France), Professor Gabrielle
Kaufmann-Kohler (Switzerland), Professor Alexander Komarov (Russian
Federation), Professor Pierre Mayer (France), Professor Michael
Reisman (USA), Professor Dorothé Sossa (Benin), Professor Christoph
Schreuer (Austria), and V.V. Veeder QC (UK).
Interested students and young practitioners are invited to apply to
the Academy by April 30, 2011. The Application Form and the
complete Program can be viewed on the Academy's Website
at .