The Center hosts a two-day arbitration conference in Santiago

The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law is glad to announce that it will host, together with the School of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and SciencesPo Law School, an arbitration conference focusing on current issues and future challenges. The event, to take place on the campus of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago on Nov. 16th and 17th, 2023, will be divided in various parts, focusing on transparency in international arbitration, the importance of case management conferences in complex arbitrations, the scope of arbitrability, economic hardship in international arbitration, the law applicable to the merits and the impact of non-State rules, the New York Convention’s interpretation, the clean hands doctrine, ESG principles in arbitration, and the State as claimant in international arbitration, respectively.

On the occasion of the conference, Professor Franco Ferrari, the Center’s Director, will give one of 35 talks to be given over the course of the two-day conference. Specifically, Professor Ferrari’s talk will address “Transnationalism and Its Impact on the Law Applicable to the Merits”. Professor Friedrich Rosenfeld, Global Adjunct Professor at NYU Paris, will speak on “The New York Convention as an Instrument of Uniform Law”.

For the full program, please click here.