INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF 14 SEPTEMBER 2021
THE IMPACT OF COVID ON INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES
Steven G. Shapiro and Dr. Shaheeza Lalani
PROGRAM
| Hours | Conferences |
|---|---|
| 14.00 | Welcome |
| 14.20 | The Rise and Impact of the Zoom Negotiation: Cross-Cultural Variations in Virtual Negotiations and Lessons from Covid by Professor Edoardo Agamennone, ChinaMed Business Program |
| 14.40 | The Impact of Covid on the Legal Services Industry by Liz Roberts, General Counsel at Arbitration Place |
| 15.00 | Salient Considerations for Virtual International Arbitration Hearings in a Post-Pandemic Global Economy |
| by Karthik Nagarajan, Senior Associate, White & Case LLP, Washington, D.C., USA and James J. East, Jr., Associate at Baker Hostetler LLP, Washington, D.C., USA | |
| 15.20 | Technology as a Vehicle to Enhance Arbitration: The Impact of Covid on Using Online Dispute Resolution by Aichell Alvarado, Counsel at Ministry of Economy and Finance of Panama |
| 15.40 | New Landscape of Arbitration in View of Digitalization Process by Dr. Magdalena Łągiewska, University of Gdańsk, Poland |
| 16.00 | Break |
| 16.20 | Lessons Learned in Arbitration During the Pandemic |
| by Bjorn Arp, Fellow, Center on International Commercial Arbitration, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., USA | |
| and Edwin Nemesio, Attorney in Mexico, Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)-North America Branch | |
| 16.40 | An Institutional View of Online ADR by Helena Tavares Erikson, Senior Vice-President, CPR: The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, Inc. |
| 17.00 | The Impact of COVID on the Use of International Arbitration: Challenges and Opportunities of Remote Hearings by Bahar Hatami Alamdari, Senior Lecturer, St. Mary’s University, London, UK |
| 17.20 | Covid-19 and the Changes to the Arbitration Landscape: Making a Case to Review the Fees of Arbitral Institutions for the New Normal by Bamikole Martins Aduloju, Partner, Kayode Ajulo & Co. Castle of Law, Abuja, Nigeria |
| 17.40 | Discussion |
| 18.00 | End of Conference |
UNIL & WCL.
The UNIL LL.M. in International Business Law takes an interdisciplinary, comparative, and practice-oriented approach to enable young lawyers to face legal challenges in today’s global business environment. Offering the highest quality of teaching in small group settings and 5 specialisations, the Programme is taught by an international team of distinguished academics and practitioners. For more information, see http://www.unil.ch/llm.
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