Cambridge Arbitration Day

Tomorrow, Friday 1 April, we kickstart the 7th Cambridge Arbitration Days with an unmissable panel on sports arbitration!

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The construction arbitration panel will also be taking place on Saturday 2 April. We are grateful to our fantastic speakers and moderator and we look forward to hearing from them on some intriguing topics!

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We are thrilled to present the Keynote Debate(s) between The Honourable Judge Charles Brower and Dr. Daphna Kapeliuk, moderated by Paul Key QC, which will take place on Saturday 2 April as part of the 7th Cambridge Arbitration Days! We are honoured to have them on board and we are really looking forward to what promises to be an exciting debate.

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We are excited to present our stellar commercial arbitration panel!

Register now at https://tinyurl.com/457bw6u6, and join this extremely topical discussion on systemic issues in commercial arbitration this Saturday 2 April.

We are delighted to present the investor-State arbitration panel of this year's Cambridge Arbitration Days! We are grateful to our amazing speakers and moderator, and we are looking forward to discussing fascinating topical issues this Saturday 2 April.

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Stay tuned for more information about our sports, commercial and construction panels.

We are thrilled to invite you to the 7th Cambridge Arbitration Days, taking place in-person on 1-2 April 2022, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge.

We are extremely grateful to our sponsors and speakers.
More details about the CAD panels coming soon.

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After an intensive CAD weekend, we would like to thank everyone for attending the conference!

Without our supporters, speakers, attendees, and, of course, everyone at the organising committee, the event would not be a success!

All sessions will be uploaded soon on the Faculty’s website and we will upload here shortly pictures from the events.

Thank you all for coming and see you next year for the 7th CAD on March 13-14, 2020!

When Facebook outage gives you an example of how social media may affect arbitration and vice versa. Please, let us introduce our distinguished speakers on panel III.

The final panel of the conference will be devoted to an exciting debate on the proposition: Arbitral cases are won and lost on personae and not on the law.

Arguments against the proposition will be presented by Ms Emilie Gonin and Mr Patricio Grané Labat.

Emilie is a barrister in Doughty Street Chambers. She specialises in investment treaty arbitration, public international law, human rights and international commercial arbitration. She is ranked as a “Future Leader” and recognised as a leading arbitration junior by Who’s Who Legal. Emilie has experience of arbitrations conducted under the major arbitration rules (ICC, LCIA, ICSID, HKIAC, SCC, UNCITRAL) across a range of sectors, including energy, real estate, finance, mining and telecoms. She has also represented parties before a number of international courts, including the ICJ, the ECtHR and the CJEU. She is regularly instructed to advise on complex public international law issues, such as State responsibility, State immunity, Law of the Sea, International Human Rights Law and Interpol Red Notices.

Patricio is a partner at Arnold & Porter. He is a seasoned international law expert with 20 years of experience in international arbitration, international trade, and general public international law. He has represented claimant and respondent parties in investment arbitrations, including under NAFTA, CAFTA-DR, and various bilateral investment treaties. He has acted as counsel in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations under ICSID, UNCITRAL, SCC, LCIA, and ICC rules, as well as an arbitrator in international commercial arbitration. Patricio, who served as a trade diplomat and negotiator for a Latin American country in Geneva, Switzerland, before entering private practice in 2001, also represents developed and developing countries in WTO dispute settlement proceedings and argues cases before WTO panels and the Appellate Body.

We are pleased to introduce Mr Audley Sheppard QC who kindly accepted our invitation to preside over the final debate on the proposition: Arbitral cases are won and lost on personae and not on the law.

Audley has been a partner at Clifford Chance since 1995. In his practice, he specialises in the resolution of major disputes arising out of infrastructure and energy projects, and international trade and investment. Audley has represented investors and States in arbitrations under various bilateral investment treaties and the Energy Charter Treaty. He has also substantial experience sitting as an arbitrator. His successful engagements include, among others, representation of an Asian telecoms company in a SIAC arbitration concerning claims by an Indian company under a share purchase agreement or advising a NY based fund awarded over $110 million in an LCIA arbitration as compensation following the termination of a project to reduce methane gas emissions in Russia.

Cambridge Arbitration Day starts in three days! The end of the conference will be devoted to the final debate on the proposition: Arbitral cases are won and lost on personae and not on the law.

Arguments in favour of the proposition will be presented by Ms Wendy Miles QC and Mr Mark McNeill.

Wendy is a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton. Her practice focuses on international arbitration and public international law. She is recognised as one of the market’s foremost lawyers in the fields of arbitration and public international law. With over twenty years of experience, Wendy has conducted arbitrations under all the major institutions, as well as conducting ad hoc arbitrations and undertaking significant public international law cases. She has advised a wide range of multinationals, sovereign states and state entities. Wendy is a Vice President of the ICC Court of Arbitration and the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. She co-chaired the Task Force on Costs Allocation in Arbitration and currently co-chairs the ICC Task Force on Climate Change Related Disputes.

Mark is a partner in the International Arbitration practice of Shearman & Sterling. For two decades, he has acted as an advocate representing companies and States in numerous commercial and investment treaty arbitrations, including in matters involving intellectual property, technology, nuclear construction, pharmaceuticals, business combinations, oil & gas, taxation, mining, insurance and reinsurance. Before joining Shearman & Sterling, Mark was an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State, where he represented the United States in investor-State arbitrations under the investment chapter of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).