Program Agenda
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. | Registration and Pastries with IMI and the Speakers
Please join us for breakfast and a meet and greet with IMI’s Executive Director and board members and the day’s speakers before the conference begins, sponsored by the International Mediation Institute
9:30 – 9:40 a.m. | Welcome Remarks
Edna R. Sussman, Independent Arbitrator; Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, Fordham Law School
Louis B. Kimmelman, Independent Arbitrator |Professor of Practice, Brooklyn Law School
9:40 – 11:00 a.m. | Pre-Panel Session: Ethics for Mediators and Counsel: Mediating under the Singapore Convention
(1.5 Ethics CLE)
With the widespread adoption of the Singapore Convention, it is anticipated that there will be a significant increase in the use of mediation across the globe. While much attention has been paid to the ethics of arbitration, our arbitration community is less familiar with the ethical issues raised in mediation. Through a discussion of a series of provocative scenarios, this panel will review those issues from the perspective of both the mediator and counsel.
Bruce A. Green, Louis Stein Chair at Fordham Law School, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics
Linda Gerstel, Adjunct Professor of Law, Fordham Law School; Arbitrator and Mediator, GerstelAdr
Tat Lim, Partner, Aequitas Law LLP; Maxwell Mediators
Omer Shapira, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Ono Academic College (virtually)
Ellen Waldman, Mediator, Vice President CPR
Moderator: Ivana Ninčić Österle, Executive Director of the International Mediation Institute
11:00 – 11:15 a.m. | Break
11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. |Efficient, Effective and Expeditious Resolution of Technology Disputes
(1.5 Professional Practice CLE)
This interactive panel will consider the current efforts to address the needs of technology disputes, including AI. In response to this need, the ICDR created a Global Working Group which undertook a global survey of more than 500 participants to study how arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution can best assist parties in resolving such disputes. The Working Group will publish a consultation draft of its White Paper addressing its findings immediately before the conference. The panel will be joined by those involved in the efforts by UNCITRAL and SVAMC to address technology disputes to share their perspectives.
Shai Sharvit, Partner, Gornitzky (virtually)
Patricia Shaughnessy, Professor, Stockholm University
Steve Smith, Arbitrator, Steve Smith ADR LLC
Gretta L. Walters, Partner, Chaffetz Lindsey
Moderator: Kathleen Paisley, Arbitrator, Ambos Law
Moderator: Maria Chedid, Partner Arnold & Porter
12:45 – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch
1:30 – 2:15 p.m. | Keynote Address: Truth, efficiency, and arbitral justice in the space between Spock and Hal by
José Astigarraga, Partner, Reed Smith
2:15 - 2:30 p.m. | Break
2:30 – 4:00 p.m. | Panel 2: Empirical Research and International Arbitration: What Does the Data Show?
(1.5 Professional Practice CLE)
The body of empirical research on international commercial arbitration continues to grow. Scholars and practitioners have focused particular attention on the role of national courts in vacating or confirming, or recognizing and enforcing, international arbitral awards. This panel considers recent studies on post-award actions and also considers the role that empirical research should play in the practice of international arbitration generally.
Catherine Rogers, Professor of Law, Bocconi University; Affiliated Scholar at the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, UC College of Law, SF
Maxi Scherer, Professor of Law, Queen Mary, University of London Special Counsel, WilmerHale (virtually)
Jason Yackee, Foley & Lardner-Bascom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
Trey Childress, Professor of Law, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law, Of Counsel, Three Crowns
4:00 – 4:10 p.m. | Closing and Invitation to Reception
4:10 p.m. | Reception Honoring George A. Bermann, Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law; Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law, Columbia Law School
