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ORGANIZER;CN="Bernice Jusino":MAILTO:bjusin@law.columbia.edu
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SUMMARY:CIAA Event\: What is International Arbitration?
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Columbia International Arbitration Association this Thursday for our inaugural event\:What is International Arbitration?Speakers\:George A. Bermann, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law, Columbia Law SchoolAnthea Roberts, Visiting Professor, Columbia Law SchoolProfessor George A. Bermann is Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law and Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law. He is also a visiting professor at the Ecole de droit, Institut des Sciences Politiques in Paris and Collège d’Europe in Bruges, Belgium.  He is currently Chief Reporter of the ALI’s Restatement (Third) of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration, and the author of numerous books and articles on transnational litigation, international arbitration, European Union law, comparative law and WTO dispute resolution. He is currently President of the International Academy of Comparative Law.  In terms of arbitration, he has served as Chair or party-appointed arbitrator in scores of international commercial arbitrations, both institutional and ad hoc, as counsel or advisor to counsel and as foreign law expert witness in many arbitrations. He is editor-in-chiefof the American Review of International Arbitration and founder of the Columbia Journal of European Law.  He received his B.A. (summa cum laude) and J.D. from Yale. He served as editor of the Yale Law Journal.Anthea Roberts is a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics who is a Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School for 2012-13. Her field of expertise is public international law with a particular focus on investment treaty law and arbitration, international dispute resolution, comparativeinternational law, international law before national courts, and the sources of international law. She studied at the Australian National University, the University of Oxford and NYU School of Law. She served as a Clerk for Chief Justice Murray Gleeson at the High Court of Australia and as an Intern for Judge Bruno Simma at the International Court of Justice before spending five years as an Associate in the International Dispute Resolution Group at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York and London. Anthea has twice been awarded the Francis Deak Prize by the American Society of International Law, once in 2002 for her article 'Traditional and Modern Approaches to CustomaryInternational Law' 95 AJIL 757 (2001) and again in 2011 for her article 'Power and Persuasion in Investment Treaty Interpretation\: The Dual Role of States' 104 AJIL 179 (2010). She is currently participating in the ILA Study Group on the Principles on the Application of International Law by Domestic Courts and she has previously served as a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, as a Co-Chair of the ASIL Annual Meeting and as the Rapporteur for the International Bar Association's Task Force on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction. In 2011-2012, she was a Visiting Professor of Law and the John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization at Harvard Law School. Contact\: Jeanne Zelmati, jz2414@columbia.edu
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