Center on International Commercial Arbitration Summer Program

The three-week intensive program is designed to provide practitioners with critical skills training in international commercial arbitration. The session brings together world-renowned practitioners and arbitrators presenting five seminars in English and three in Spanish.

Investor-State Arbitration

Provides an overview of arbitration under Investment Treaties – including NAFTA (chapter 11) arbitration – and ICSID Arbitration of Disputes under Investment Treaties. The course will also address “hot topics” in Investor-State Arbitration including transparency and third party participation, denial of justice and resort to local courts, provisional measures, parallel proceedings and diplomatic protection, substantive issues in annulment proceedings, proposals for appeal mechanisms, and enforcement of awards. The class will include a representative from ICSID and presentations by several guest speakers experienced in treaty arbitration.