Our programme will focus on the practical implications for participants in international arbitration of the evolving rule of law situations and challenges in the world today. We will discuss how current and anticipated rule of law issues are affecting, and may affect, arbitration internationally, particularly in light of recent and emerging policies and practices in the U.S. and elsewhere, and how those policies and practices are affecting, and may affect, arbitration, arbitration practitioners, arbitral institutions, and arbitration education and training.
We plan to address a wide range of issues, including topics such as how the situation is affecting, and may affect, leading arbitration jurisdictions as seats and venues; representation of parties; employment opportunities for foreign lawyers in, and implications for, law firms' arbitration groups; foreign student arbitration education and training; arbitral institutions; and so on.