Our own Professor Bermann will deliver the keynote speech at Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA)'s 10th Anniversary in Islamabad, Pakistan on 12 and 13 April. This promises to be a spectacular event with a conference and a half day training. To register, please send an email at [email protected] Rana Sajjad, Saadia Bhatty, Daraab Wali Furqan, Shehzal Burki The American Review of International Arbitration at Columbia Law School II Center for International Commercial & Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School II Columbia Arbitration Day II Kabir Duggal, Ph.D. II John Melendez
We are thrilled to announce that Professor George Bermann will be joining us at CIICA's 10th anniversary conference to deliver the keynote speech! Professor Bermann is Chair of CIICA's Global Advisory Board and has been a source of invaluable guidance since CIICA's inception which is why it is fitting that he is the keynote speaker when CIICA's celebrates this significant 10-year milestone. Professor Bermann's brief bio is given below: Professor George Bermann is professor of law and director of the Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School. He has been arbitrator in scores of international commercial and investment cases since 1985 under the aegis of most leading international arbitral institutions. He is head of the global advisory board of the New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC), fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, founding member of the Governing Board of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (Paris), head of the advisory board of the Thai Arbitration Center (Bangkok) and Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (Lahore, Pakistan), and board member of both the Tehran?Regional Arbitration Center in Iran and the Japan Institute for International Arbitration Research and Training (Tokyo) . Professor George Bermann was Chief Reporter of the ALI Restatement of the US Law of International Commercial Arbitration, co-editor-in-chief American Review of International Arbitration and member of board of editors of Revue de l’Arbitrage. He co-authored (with E. Gaillard) the UNCITRAL Guide to the New York Convention and authored many books (most recently “Twilight Issues in International Arbitration”), book chapters and articles on international dispute resolution, notably international arbitration (most recently The Applicable Law in Investor-State Arbitration, in The Award in International Investment Arbitration (C. TiTi & K. Fach, eds.) (forthcoming 2024) and In the Cross-Fire between International Arbitration and E.U. Law, 2023 Paris J. Int’l Arb. 61 (2023). He serves regularly as expert witness on issues of international arbitration before both national courts and arbitral tribunals. He represents the American Arbitration Association as observer in UNCITRAL Working Group III. #CIICA10