The American Review of International Arbitration at Columbia Law School

?? Hot off the press! We are thrilled to announce our brand new special issue, ?? Vol. 35 Issue 2. https://lnkd.in/evN-q-tK ? Included are the Articles: 1. "A New Era for Investment Arbitration: A World Before and After the Achmea Decision?" by Marta Boura. 2. "Advocating a Hybrid Framework for the Multilateral Investment Court: Operationalizing the Rule of Law" by Nicolette Butler and Jasem Tarawneh. 3. "Redefining Jurisdiction in the EU: National Courts and the Achmea Judgement's Impact on Investment Arbitration" by Julien Chaisse. 4. "The Road Ahead for the Enforceability Of Intra-EU Awards Outside the EU: The Achmea Defense and the Rise of Domestic Law?Considerations" by Agata Daszko and Cristian Gallorini. 5. "A Significant Break with the Past? The European Union and the Reform of International Investment Law and Arbitration" by Eric De Brabandere. 6. "The Controversy Continues:?Blasket‘s Anti-Enforcement Decision Creates Complications for EU Investors in US Courts" by Anuraag Mitra. 7. "The Investment Court System of the CETA: The Panacea for Criticism of ISDS or Ineffective Pick-Me-Up?" by Kevin Xhebexhia. ?? Have you published with us? Do send us your submission. You can read our submission guidelines here: https://lnkd.in/eDmzbFGk Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Center for International Commercial & Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School, Columbia Arbitration Day

??The American Review of International Arbitration at Columbia Law School is delighted to support this incredible program for our students: "Borders and Barriers: Insights into International Legal Negotiations: ??April 10 ??12:00-1:10 pm ??WJWH 310 ??This interactive session explores the evolving trends and challenges in international legal negotiation and dispute resolution. ??General counsel from outside the U.S. will share their unique perspectives on working with U.S.-based counsel and navigating the U.S. legal system. ??With practical case studies and actionable advice, attendees will gain valuable insights into cross-border legal interactions and negotiation strategies. Moderators: ??Jeff Senger Columbia Law School Negotiations Lecturer and Arbitrator/Mediator with JAMS, CIArb, SIAC, and CPR ??Giuseppe De Palo Mediator and Arbitrator at JAMS Speakers: ??Ehab Elsonbaty (PhD) Elsonbaty Partner at DLA Piper, Ehab specializes in international commercial law and dispute resolution, offering extensive experience in cross-border negotiations and legal risk management. ??Alexander Galanos General Counsel at Vesparum Capital, an investment firm specializing in data science-driven capital raising solutions. ??Pietro Galizzi General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Eni Plenitude, Pietro specializes in corporate governance and sustainability with extensive experience in international energy negotiations. ??Mary (Meg) Utterback Partner at King & Wood Mallesons, Meg is an experienced litigator and arbitrator with a focus on cross-border disputes, regulatory compliance, and international commercial negotiations. ??Join us for a fantastic and rich discussion with this incredible panel.?? Kabir Duggal, Ph.D. II John Melendez II The American Review of International Arbitration at Columbia Law School II Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA) II Columbia Arbitration Day

?? We have a great new blog post written by Ketan Gaur,?Neil Chatterjee,?and Nidhisha Garg on the topic "To Incorporate or Not? Arbitration Clauses in Indian Government and Public Notifications Intended to Be a Part of an Existing or Future Contract". ?? Ketan Gaur?is a Partner at Trilegal in the dispute resolution practice. He is based out of the Delhi office and specialises in international commercial arbitration and general commercial litigation. Ketan is registered as a foreign lawyer in Singapore and has acted as Indian law counsel before the Singapore International Commercial Court and the Singapore Court of Appeal in arbitration related proceedings. ?? Neil Chatterjee?is a Senior Associate at Trilegal in the dispute resolution practice. He is based out of the Delhi office. He holds a Masters in International Dispute Settlement from the University of Geneva and the Geneva Graduate Institute. ?? Nidhisha Garg is an Associate at Trilegal in the dispute resolution practice. She is based out of the Delhi office. She earned her Bachelor of Laws degree from the National Law Institute University, Bhopal. ?? Check out their post here: https://lnkd.in/eghY3BP9 Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Columbia Arbitration Day, Center for International Commercial & Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School

?? We have a wonderful and timely new blog post written by Raghunath Peter Doraisamy FCIArb and Pranav Kamnani on the topic "New Year, New Rules: Highlighting 10 Key Features of the 7th Edition of the SIAC Rules, 2025". ?? Peter Doraisamy?is the Founder and Managing Partner of PDLegal LLC. Peter is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and a non-practicing Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple. His practice has received recognition in various leading independent legal directories including the Legal 500, Chambers & Partners, Benchmark Litigation, and Asialaw. ?? Pranav V Kamnani is a Counsel (Registered Foreign Lawyer) at PDLegal LLC and a member of the firm’s International Arbitration and India Desk practice. He is a dual qualified lawyer and admitted to practice in India and the state of New York. He is an alumnus of Columbia Law School and graduated from the LLM Class of 2023. ?? Check out their post here: https://lnkd.in/efwmm4NC 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 Ata Turkfiliz on the topic "Devas-Antrix Saga: A New Hope – Amici Curiae Brief". ?? Ata Turkfiliz?is a doctoral scholarship holder in the field of judicial law and extrajudicial conflict resolution at the University of Antwerp, Faculty of Law, Law Enforcement Research Group. He is currently writing his PhD dissertation on the resolution of space disputes. He is also a registered attorney at the Istanbul Bar, Union of Turkish Bar Associations, and a researcher in the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) Working Group on the Future of the Moon Agreement. ?? Check out his post here: https://lnkd.in/eWYHaF99 Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Columbia Arbitration Day, Center for International Commercial & Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School

Meet ARIA’s Alumni Advisory Board!????? ?? ??Rana Sajjad | Managing Partner, Triage Law ?? Rana Sajjad, a Columbia Law School alum (LL.M. 2002), is the Managing Partner at 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. He is a dual-qualified lawyer (licensed in New York and Pakistan) having over 20 years’ experience of practicing law in Pakistan and the U.S. in practice areas including contracts, cross-border transactions, commercial litigation and domestic and international arbitration. Sajjad is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and an accredited mediator of the Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI). Sajjad is also a member of the panel of arbitrators of the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), the European Court of Arbitration (Irish branch), the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA) and an Arbitrator of the Hangzhou Arbitration Commission (HAC) and a member of the list of arbitrators of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). ?? Fun Fact: As a kid, one of Sajjad's favorite subjects was geography and he used to enjoy looking at maps of different continents in an atlas and play “find a city” on a map. Sometimes he thinks that his interest in international arbitration may have a connection with that childhood interest/activity since it involves the interplay between different jurisdictions and cultures and, of course, international travel. ?? For further information, please see https://lnkd.in/eGXrMCJm and for our blog, please see https://lnkd.in/e3897azc. Kabir Duggal, Ph.D., Olga Krasnenkova, Alexandra Desmedt, Ziz Z., Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA), Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Columbia Arbitration Day, JURIS Legal Information

Meet ARIA’s Alumni Advisory Board!????? ?? ??Eric Ives | Senior Counsel for Europe, U.S. Department of Commerce ?? Eric Ives?is Senior Counsel for Europe at the United States Department of Commerce, Office of the General Counsel’s Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP).?Mr. Ives leads a team of legal development professionals’ work bilaterally in Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania, and multilaterally across Europe.?Mr. Ives previously served as Attorney Advisor for the Central Asia and Pakistan team, where he led the agency’s bilateral legal development portfolio with Uzbekistan and the agency’s alternative dispute resolution portfolios bilaterally in Pakistan and across MENA. Mr. Ives received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar, Davis Polk Leadership Fellow, and editor of the Journal of Transnational Law. ?? Fun Fact: Eric is a avid rock climber, with notable sport, alpine, and traditional ascents around the world. ?? For further information, please see https://lnkd.in/eGXrMCJm and for our blog, please see https://lnkd.in/e3897azc. Kabir Duggal, Ph.D., Olga Krasnenkova, Alexandra Desmedt, Ziz Z., Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA), Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Columbia Arbitration Day, JURIS Legal Information

Meet ARIA’s Alumni Advisory Board!????? ?? ??Wendy Cai | Associate, Gibson Dunn ?? Wendy Cai is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.?Her practice focuses on patent litigation and international arbitration in a wide range of fields, including telecommunications, software, green energy, security networks, robotics, logistics, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals.?She has represented clients in a variety of international arbitration proceedings, including those before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC).? ? She received her Juris Doctor in 2018 from Columbia Law School, where she was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the student Editor-in-Chief of the American Review of International Arbitration.? She argued on behalf of the Columbia team in all 9 rounds of the 24th Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, ultimately placing 3rd internationally.? She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology with distinction in the major from Yale University in 2015.? ? She is the co-author of “Principles of Evidence in Public International Law as Applied by Investor-State Tribunals: Burden and Standard of Proof”, Brill Publications (January 2019). ?? Fun Fact: She makes a pizza from scratch at least once a week! ?? For further information, please see https://lnkd.in/eGXrMCJm and for our blog, please see https://lnkd.in/e3897azc. Kabir Duggal, Ph.D., Olga Krasnenkova, Alexandra Desmedt, Ziz Z., Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA), Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Columbia Arbitration Day, JURIS Legal Information

Meet ARIA’s Alumni Advisory Board!????? ?? ??Gustavo Favero Vaughn | Partner, Cesar Asfor Rocha Advogados ?? Gustavo Favero Vaughn is a partner at Cesar Asfor Rocha Advogados, in S?o Paulo, Brazil, where he focuses his practice on complex litigation, especially disputes before Brazil’s highest courts, and commercial arbitration. Gustavo worked for nine months as an international lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, in New York City, after he secured his LL.M. degree at Columbia Law School, in 2022. He has also a Master’s degree from the USP - Universidade de S?o Paulo School of Law, and regularly teaches arbitration at the Brazilian Institute of Capital Markets (Ibmec). An Alumni Advisor at ARIA, Gustavo is one of the editors of “Pro-Arbitration Revisited: A Tribute to Professor George Bermann from His Students Over the Years”. ?? Fun Fact: Gustavo pursued graduation in Law because he wanted to be a judge (and still does). ?? For further information, please see https://lnkd.in/eGXrMCJm and for our blog, please see https://lnkd.in/e3897azc. Kabir Duggal, Ph.D., Olga Krasnenkova, Alexandra Desmedt, Ziz Z., Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA), Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Columbia Arbitration Day, JURIS Legal Information

Meet ARIA’s Alumni Advisory Board!????? ?? ??Alessandra Mistura | Policy Analyst, OECD - OCDE ?? Alessandra?is a Policy Analyst in the Sustainable Investment Unit of the OECD’s Investment Division. Her research is focused on ensuring alignment between international and domestic investment law and policy frameworks with sustainable development objectives. Prior to joining the OECD, she worked as a Programme Lead for Inclusive Economic Development with the IDLO - International Development Law Organization, where she managed the Investment Support Programme for Least Developed Countries, and as a Programme Officer with the International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP), providing technical assistance and capacity building to governments on international investment law and policy. She was also a research assistant with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), conducting extensive research on investment treaties and sustainable development. Alessandra?holds a law degree from the Università degli Studi di Parma, a LL.M. from Columbia Law School, and a Ph.D. in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute. ?? Fun Fact: In her free time,?Alessandra?enjoys cooking for friends and family – she has been told her ragù Bolognese is incredible.? ?? For further information, please see https://lnkd.in/eGXrMCJm and for our blog, please see https://lnkd.in/e3897azc. Kabir Duggal, Ph.D., Olga Krasnenkova, Alexandra Desmedt, Ziz Z., Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA), Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA), Columbia Arbitration Day, JURIS Legal Information