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Columbia Law School to Host Conference on Complex Arbitrations

 

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New York, March 16, 2011—Some of the world’s leading experts on complex arbitrations will discuss the theoretical and practical challenges of such proceedings during a March 25 conference at Columbia Law School.
 
Columbia Arbitration Day will feature four panels that will discuss various aspects of arbitrations involving multiple parties, multiple contracts, and parallel proceedings.
 
“We hope to provide a platform for the mutually beneficial exchange of ideas and solutions to some of the most prominent and difficult issues this field faces today,” said David M. Schizer, Dean and the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law.
 
The conference is under the auspices of the Columbia International Arbitration Association.
 
Among the speakers is George Bermann ’75 LL.M., the Jean Monnet Professor in EU Law, Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law, who will provide delegates at the conference with an update on the U.S Restatement on International Commercial Arbitration project.
Bermann, a preeminent authority on international arbitration, is the reporter for the Restatement.
 
Bermann will also be part of a panel on the annulment, recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards with Gerard E. Lynch ‘75, the Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Several other panelists are also Law School alumni.
 
Horatia Muir Watt, the James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor of Law, will give the keynote address. The conference will run from 9 a.m.-8 p.m. on March 25. All sessions will be held in Jerome Greene Hall, 435 West 116th St.
 
For the complete program and to register, go to http://www.law.columbia.edu/columbiaarbitrationday-2011.
 
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