14/04/2014

International Academy for Arbitration Law

An initiative of the French Arbitration Committee (Comité Français de l’Arbitrage (“CFA”), the first session of the International Academy for Arbitration Law will be take place in Paris from 4-22 July 2011.  The Academy will offer three-week courses to students and young practitioners interested in the field, covering both international commercial arbitration and international investment arbitration.

The program of the Academy 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.
 

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.