The American Review of International Arbitration at Columbia Law School

🎊 We have a fantastic new blog post written by Layan Al Fatayri on the topic "AI in International Arbitration: What Is the Big Deal?". 📌 Layan Al Fatayri holds both an LL.B. and an LL.M. with honors from Université La Sagesse - ULS. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Debrecen, Géza Marton Doctoral School of Legal Studies in Hungary. Layan’s experience includes roles at prominent organizations such as UNHCR, participation in various international legal conferences, and published works. She is also a member of Young ICCA, which operates under the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, a mentee in the current 11th cycle of the Young ICCA Mentoring Programme, and a member of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA). 🔎 Check out her post here: https://lnkd.in/eSrXMA9U Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Columbia Arbitration Day, Center for International Commercial & Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School

🎊 We have a fantastic new blog post written by Alexander Grimm on the topic "How to Limit the Risk of Overlong Post-M&A Arbitrations & Disputes". 📌 Alexander Grimm is a Principal Associate in the International Arbitration Group at Freshfields in Frankfurt (Germany). He has experience as party representative in highly complex and technically demanding international arbitration proceedings (such as disputes in the pharmaceutical industry, the aviation industry and infrastructure projects), as well as in post-M&A and investor-state arbitration proceedings. 🔎 Check out his post here: https://lnkd.in/gW-95AD9 Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Columbia Arbitration Day, Center for International Commercial & Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School

🎊 We have a great new blog post written by Urvashi Misra and Natasha Singh on the topic "Subject Bias – The Blurring Lines Between Practitioners and Arbitrators". 📌 Urvashi Misra is a Counsel in the Dispute Resolution team of AZB & Partners, based out of the New Delhi office. She advises and represents multinational clients in domestic/cross-border disputes before various courts, including the Supreme Court of India and in a variety of arbitral forums. 📌 Natasha Singh is an Associate in the Dispute Resolution team of AZB & Partners, based out of the New Delhi office. She is interested in international arbitration and investment law & policy. 🔎 Check out their post here: https://lnkd.in/eAChJGmX Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Columbia Arbitration Day, Center for International Commercial & Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School

🎊 We have a new blog post written by Flávio Yarshell, Michael A. Fernandez, and Gustavo Favero Vaughn on the fascinating topic "A Pathway to Obtaining Discovery in the United States in Mandatory Arbitrations". 📌 Flávio Luiz Yarshell is a Full Professor of Procedural Law at the School of Law of the USP - Universidade de São Paulo Paulo. He is the Founding Partner of Yarshell Advogados and frequently sits as arbitrator. 📌 Michael A. Fernández is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and Member at Cozen O'Connor O’Connor whose practice is focused on complex and cross-border commercial litigation, international commercial and investor-state arbitration, and corporate internal investigations. 📌 Gustavo Favero Vaughn is a Partner at Cesar Asfor Rocha Advogados, in Brazil, where he focuses on complex litigation and commercial arbitration. He has an LL.M. at Columbia Law School and a master’s degree on Procedural Law at the School of Law of the USP - Universidade de São Paulo. He is also an Alumni Advisor at the The American Review of International Arbitration at Columbia Law School. 🔎 Check out their post here: https://lnkd.in/e7-R-tdn Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Center for International Commercial & Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School, Columbia Arbitration Day

🎊 We have a new blog post written by Saloni Jaiswal and Kabir Duggal, Ph.D. on the intriguing and timely topic "The Way Forward: An Analysis of India’s New Guidelines for Arbitration and Mediation in Contracts of Domestic Public Procurement". 📌 Kabir Duggal, Ph.D. is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Commercial & Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School, a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School, and an attorney in Arnold & Porter’s New York office focusing on international arbitration and public international law matters, serving as both as arbitrator and mediator. He is also a Course Director and Faculty Member for the Columbia Law School-Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArbNY) Comprehensive Course on International Arbitration 📌 Saloni Jaiswal is a third-year law student at the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to law school, she obtained her MPhil in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge, an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations from the University of Chicago. 🔎 Check out their post here: https://lnkd.in/e7s986xN Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA), Columbia Arbitration Day

🎊 We have a new blog post written by Rana Sajjad on the fascinating topic "Arbitrators vs Bot-rators: Can AI Make International Arbitration Fairer and More Just?" 📌 Rana Sajjad is a dual-qualified lawyer (licensed in New York and Pakistan). He is the Managing Partner of Triage Law, a Lahore-based commercial and arbitration law firm, and the Founder & President of the Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA), Pakistan’s first international arbitration center. 🔎 Check out his post here: https://lnkd.in/enpekPz2 Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA), Columbia Arbitration Day

Meet ARIA’s 2024-2029 Senior Arbitration Board! ⚖️📗🗺️ 📍Timothy Nelson | Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates 🚀 Timothy Nelson is an experienced advocate in international commercial and investment disputes, including arbitration before ICSID, ICC, ICDR-AAA, LCIA. JAMS, SIAC, HKIAC and UNCITRAL tribunals. Lead counsel in wide variety of arbitration disputes -- oil and gas/LNG, solar/renewables, nuclear, banking, M&A, telecommunications/satellites, private equity, hotel/hospitality, tax indemnities, retail and sports/motor racing. Has argued numerous large Bilateral Investment Treaty/Energy Charter Treaty arbitrations involving expropriation and allegedly unfair investor treatment by host states; he also acts as counsel for private companies and sovereigns in U.S. cross-border litigation, sovereign bond and arbitral award enforcement disputes under the New York Convention and ICSID Convention – as well as cases involving the Hague Conventions on Service and Evidence, the Alien Tort Claims Act, "Section 1782" (cross-border discovery) and diplomatic/consular immunity.  He is experienced also in cases involving alleged misappropriation of artwork and cultural artifacts. Admitted in both New York and England, he is a Council Member of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) as well as a member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL).  He is frequently published and quoted on issues concerning international arbitration, public international law and space law, and is the co-editor of “Take the Witness:  Cross Examination in International Arbitration.” 😄 Fun Fact: Timothy once argued a case in Darwin, in Australia’s Northern Territory (which is literally the home of Crocodile Dundee). 👉 For further information, please see https://lnkd.in/eewbXyQW and for our blog, please see https://lnkd.in/e3897azc. Kabir Duggal, Ph.D., Olga Krasnenkova, Alexandra Desmedt, Ziz Zhou, Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA), Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Columbia Arbitration Day, JURIS Legal Information

Meet ARIA’s 2024-2029 Senior Arbitration Board! ⚖️📗🗺️ 📍Tai-Heng Cheng | Partner, Sidley Austin LLP 🚀 Tai-Heng Cheng is global co-head of international arbitration and trade at Sidley. Clients turn to him to solve their most significant legal problems. He has won and collected nine-figure awards for clients both in commercial and investment-treaty arbitrations. With over 20 years of experience, he is also a trusted advisor to companies, boards, and governments on issues beyond business disputes. He uses the full range of subject matter specialists at Sidley to devise and execute strategies that efficiently achieve his clients’ goals. Often this has involved a multi-pronged approach before courts, tribunals, regulators, and directly with counter-parties, in multiple countries. His clients span many industries, including energy and infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, real estate, manufacturing and financial services. While he is resident in the New York and Singapore offices, he also spends substantial time in Europe and Latin America representing clients. Tai is ranked as one of the top 10 arbitration practitioners in North and South America under 45 by Who’s Who Legal, and has also been recognized in Chambers Global and Chambers USA for international arbitration, Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration, Benchmark Litigation’s Rising Stars and Benchmark Litigation’s Under 40 Hot List. 😄 Fun Fact: Tai is bilingual in English and Mandarin. 👉 For further information, please see https://lnkd.in/eewbXyQW and for our blog, please see https://lnkd.in/e3897azc. Kabir Duggal, Ph.D., Olga Krasnenkova, Alexandra Desmedt, Ziz Zhou, Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA), Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Columbia Arbitration Day, JURIS Legal Information

Meet ARIA’s 2024-2029 Senior Arbitration Board! ⚖️📗🗺️ 📍Sherina Petit | Partner, Stewarts 🚀 Based in London, Sherina is a partner, Head of International Arbitration and Head of India Practice at Stewarts. She is also on the managing committee of the firm.    She specialises in international commercial arbitration, investor-state arbitration, litigation and alternative dispute resolutions (ADR). Described as a “powerhouse in the international arbitration world, particularly as regards India-related work”, Sherina has a wide range of experience in all key aspects of international arbitration across all the major arbitral institutions and also sits as an arbitrator.   Sherina is on the board of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and the European Federation of Investment Law and Arbitration (EFILA). She is on the City of London Law Society (CLLS) Arbitration Committee, the ICC Indian Arbitration Group and the SIAC Users Counsel, a member of the Chamber of Arbitration of the India International Arbitration Centre (IIAC), the advisory council of the School of International Arbitration of the Queen Mary University of London and the Steering Committee of the Pledge for Equal Representation for Women as well as the Chair of the India Pledge Committee. She is a member of the Task Force of the IBA Arbitration Guidelines and Rules Subcommittee for the revision of the 2014 IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest.   Sherina is widely recognised as an expert in international arbitration having won numerous awards and maintaining rankings across several leading industry directories. 😄 Fun Fact: If she weren’t a lawyer, Sherina would likely be a travel and food writer. 👉 For further information, please see https://lnkd.in/eewbXyQW and for our blog, please see https://lnkd.in/e3897azc. Kabir Duggal, Ph.D., Olga Krasnenkova, Alexandra Desmedt, Ziz Zhou, Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA), Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Columbia Arbitration Day, JURIS Legal Information

Meet ARIA’s 2024-2029 Senior Arbitration Board! ⚖️📗🗺️ 📍Samira Sulejmanovic | Head of Department for Bilateral Trade Relations, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina 🚀 Samira Sulejmanovic is a Head of the Department for Bilateral Trade Relations in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Even though originally a trade negotiator, the investment treaties became part of her portfolio ever since she had taken over Department at the end of 2010. She has been very active in the investment treaties’ reform process and advocated the need to rethink the policy objectives particularly on a national level. Special emphasis of her effort were out on establishing a critical level of awareness and pursuing joint action among countries in the Western Balkans region and contributing multilateral work and debate under the auspices of various international fora. Almost a decade long process of reform of the national policy reflected in investment treaties of Bosnia and Herzegovina is among Samira’s major professional achievements in the recent time. She has published a number of professional articles related to the most recent developments in investment and trade policies in the world, reflecting the position of Bosnia and Herzegovina, co-authored studies/commentaries, and delivered many lectures. 😄 Fun Fact: In an effort to establish and maintain a balance in life, Samira has planted a small botanical garden in her office. 👉 For further information, please see https://lnkd.in/eewbXyQW and for our blog, please see https://lnkd.in/e3897azc. Kabir Duggal, Ph.D., Olga Krasnenkova, Alexandra Desmedt, Ziz Zhou, Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA), Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Columbia Arbitration Day, JURIS Legal Information