International Commercial Arbitration: What You Can Learn from the ALI Restatement Project
Why Attend?
Resolving international business disputes fairly and expediently is especially critical today for companies negotiating cross-border contracts. The complexities are vast, and the stakes are huge. Business counsel improve their chances for success by learning from scholars and practitioners at the forefront of this dynamic and increasingly important practice area.
The American Law Institute invites you to learn about its Restatement project on the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration, to hear the Reporters’ thinking on the topics treated so far, to comment on the draft and ask questions of the Reporters. Via live video webcast, you can sit in on the Members Consultative group’s first meeting on those topics, including:
Challenges in sorting out even the fundamentals of recognition and enforcement of awards
Challenges in sorting out the grounds for denying recognition and enforcement
Drawing the interface between vacatur and enforcement of awards
What You Will Learn
Because the Restatement project is still at an early stage, viewers have the opportunity to gain state-of-the-art knowledge, as well as participate in its development.
Since the Institute initiated the new Restatement project on international arbitration in 2007, it has generated enormous interest. The project was started by Columbia Law Professor George Bermann, an outstanding scholar and experienced practitioner in international arbitration, who gathered a team of experts to serve as Associate Reporters.
The four Reporters have thus far produced a preliminary draft containing three chapters as well as a tentative outline of the entire Restatement. A revision of that draft will be available for download for this program. In revising the material, the Reporters will take into account the comments on the first draft, including those received at a small New York-based invitational conference in February.
The CLE program and meeting also will be available for later online viewing and download from the ALI-ABA website. For tips on Research Sources and Strategies in International Commercial Arbitration: An Insider’s Guide, click here for information on another timely webcast from ALI-ABA offered on April 13, 2009.
Faculty
George A. Bermann, Reporter; Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law and Director, European Legal Studies, Columbia University School of Law, New York, NY
Jack J. Coe, Jr. Associate Reporter; Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, CA
Christopher R. Drahozal, Associate Reporter; John M. Rounds Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, KS
Moderator
Lance Liebman, Director; William S. Beinecke Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law, New York, NY
(The project’s third Associate Reporter, Catherine A. Rogers, Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State and Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, is unable to participate.)
This program is available via ALI-ABA webcast for a fee of $199. For ALI members, the fee is $99; there is no additional fee for CLE credit. The special rate is available to ALI members when they register online or register by phone or mail (include coupon code, WAP648ALI).
The program takes place at the Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Ave., N.W., in Washington, D.C. There is no registration fee or tuition to attend the program in person, whether or not you are an ALI member. However, attendees seeking CLE credit must pay the ALI Annual Meeting’s $100 CLE fee (See the ALI staff in the Cabinet Room during registration hours to apply for CLE credit for this Meeting). All registrants admitted to the session will receive one set of the program materials and free future access to the online archived program.
Program Schedule
All Times Eastern Daylight
2:00 p.m. International Commercial Arbitration: What You Can Learn from the ALI Restatement Project – Professors Bermann, Coe, and Drahozal
Questions and Answers
4:30 p.m. Adjournment
Total 60-minute hours of instruction: 2.5; total 50-minute CLE hours: 3.0.
Times
Eastern 2 pm to 4:30 pm
Central 1 pm to 3:30 pm
Mountain 12 pm to 2:30 pm
Pacific & Arizona 11 am to 1:30 pm
Alaska 10 am to 12:30 pm
Hawaii 8 am to 10:30 am
