INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

The International Arbitration Commission is comprised of lawyers practising in various jurisdictions who are engaged in international commercial arbitration and international investment arbitration.

The Commission’s focus primarily centres on the development of international arbitration law and, in particular, new trends in arbitration law and practice.

The Commission also pays particular attention to the interaction of its subject matter with other areas of law, working in co-operation with other commissions to that end.

The Commission’s work is directed by a Steering Committee with six members from different jurisdictions: Laurence Kiffer, Patricia Ann Peterson, Veit Oehlberger, Andrea Carlevaris, Jane Willems and Álvaro López de Argumedo Piñeiro.

In addition to an annual programme at each UIA Congress, the International Arbitration Commission frequently organizes and participates in UIA seminars on international arbitration and related topics.

The last congress took place in Luxembourg from 6 to 10 November 2019. The session of the commission took place on 7 November 2019 and dealt with the greater role of EU law on arbitration, both on commercial arbitration and investment arbitration.
The session was organized with two panels which deal respectively with issues in connection with each of these two types of arbitration.

In the panel on commercial arbitration the speakers discussed the following topics: Brussels regulation and arbitration, arbitration antisuit injunctions and EU law as well as mandatory EU provisions prevailing over arbitration conventions.

The panel on investment arbitration discussed the following topics: the new dispute resolution system chosen by Europe in its recent trade agreements, the enforceability of intra-EU investment awards and the reforms driven by Europe to address issues of consistency, coherence and predictability on investment arbitration awards. 

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The internal meeting of the commission took place on 7 November 2019 before the session and prepared the program of the UIA 2020 Congress in Guadalajara.

Next events:

20-22 February 2020 - Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Arbitration training: study of a mock case under the ICC Rules
Training organized jointly by the UIA and the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC with the support of the National Bar of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This training follows the previous editions organized in Dakar, Abidjan, Douala et Lomé.

- 21- 28 March 2020 - St Anton am Alberg  (Austria)
UIA winter seminar on « Recent Legal Developments and Soft Law
This seminar will deal among others with current arbitration issues:
"Recent developments and soft law in arbitration
- Battle of soft law in arbitration: IBA Rules vs. Prague Rules
- Arbitration of sport disputes after the ECHR’s Pechstein ruling
- Arbitration of Intellectual Property disputes: a growing field?
- Specialized institutions for sports and entertainment disputes: pros and cons"

- 8-9 May 2020 - Bilbao (Spain)
4th edition of the Spanish speaking seminar on « International arbitration, current perspectives.”
Seminar organized in cooperation with the Bilbao Bar with the support of the Civil and Commercial Court of Arbitration (CIMA).

- 28-29 May 2020 - Agadir (Morroco)
French speaking seminar on the enforcement of the foreign arbitral awards
This seminar is organized jointly by the UIA and the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC in cooperation with the Bars of Agadir and Laayoune, the Association of the Moroccan bars with the support of Lexis Nexis. 

- 19- 20 June 2020 – Santiago de Chile
Seminar on "Foreign investment and international arbitration"