Category: Lectures

Lectures

Selected Lectures and Presentations on International Arbitration

  • 2012 “Class Arbitration,” Penn State University Law School.
  • 2012 “Convergence in International Arbitration,” Miami International Arbitration Society
  • 2012 “Transparency and Publication of Awards in International Arbitration,” University of Miami Law School.
  • 2009 “Cost Concerns in the Drafting of Arbitral Awards – An Issue of Ethics”, presentation to the Fourth Annual Fordham Law School Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation.
  • 2009 Investor-state arbitration under NAFTA, presentation to the 21st Annual Institute of the Texas State Bar Association International Law Section
  • 2004 The Case for Publication of International Commercial Arbitration Awards, presentation to the International Commercial Dispute Resolution Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. New York.
  • 2004 Chair of the panel on Issues in Integrated Dispute Resolution Systems at the 17th Conference of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration. Beijing.
  • 2004 The Enforcement in the United States of Foreign Judgments, presentation at the Baker & McKenzie North American Litigation Practice Group, Toronto.
  • 2004 Presentation in panel on Parallel proceedings, arbitration and litigation, ABA Section on International Law and Practice, New York.
  • 2004 Chaired Law School Deans/Practitioners Roundtable on Legal education for an international law practice, ABA Section on International Law and Practice, New York.
  • 2004 The Judicialization of the Arbitral Process, address at the Yale Law School, New Haven.
  • 2004 The Conduct of the Hearing in International Commercial Arbitration, City Bar Center for Continuing Legal Education, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York.
  • 2003 The Judicialization of the Arbitral Process, Arbitration Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York.
  • 2003 The Arbitral Panel: Selection, Challenges and Processes for Removal, Baker & McKenzie Seminar, New York.
  • 2003 Iran Hostage Claims, Hardball Program with Chris Matthews, New York.
  • 2001 International Law in U.S. Courts, International Law Association, California.
  • 2000 Role of the American Society of International Law, Canadian Council on International Law, Ottawa.
  • 2000 International Law in U.S. Courts, International Law Association, New York.
  • 2000 International Law in U.S. Courts, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judicial Conference, Santa Fe.
  • 2000 Ethics in International Arbitration, Baker & McKenzie Seminar, New York.
  • 1997 The Internet: Avoiding and Dealing with Disputes, Baker & McKenzie Seminar, New York.
  • 1997 Gulf War Claims, Baker & McKenzie Seminar, New York.
  • 1997 Enforcement in the United States under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of Judicial Judgments, Arbitration Awards, and Prejudgment Attachments, Baker & McKenzie Seminar, New York.
  • 1996 Drafting Effective Dispute Resolution Clauses, Baker & McKenzie Seminar, New York.
  • 1996 Efficient Organization of International Arbitrations, New York.
  • 1995 Litigation Versus Arbitration, Baker & McKenzie Seminar, New York.
  • 1995 Drafting Effective Dispute Resolution Clauses, Baker & McKenzie Seminar, New York.
  • 1995 The Process of International Arbitration, Baker & McKenzie Conference on Intellectual Property, Palo Alto; and 41st Institute of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Sun Valley, Idaho.
  • 1995 Fast-Track Arbitration, Annual Meeting, Baker & McKenzie, Chicago
  • 1995 Gulf War Claims, Baker & McKenzie Seminar, New York.
  • 1994 Multi-Party Arbitration, Baker & McKenzie Seminar, New York
  • 1994 Fast-Track Arbitration, Baker & McKenzie Seminars, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo
  • 1994 U.S. Discovery For Cases in Foreign Tribunals, Baker & McKenzie Seminar, New York
  • 1994 Litigation versus Arbitration, Tulane Law School.
  • 1993 International Arbitration, Baker & McKenzie Seminar, New York
  • 1992 Fast Track Arbitration, Sokol Colloquium, University of Virginia Law School
  • 1991 Iran U.S. Claims Tribunal, Yale Law School
  • 1991 Claims Against Iraq, Baker & McKenzie Symposium, Vienna
  • 1990 International Arbitration, Cornell Law School
  • 1990 Claims Against Iraq, Baker & McKenzie Symposium, New York
  • 1990 The UN Response to Iraq’s Invasion of Kuwait, Chatham House, London.
  • 1989 U.S. Law and International Arbitration, Baker & McKenzie Symposia in Singapore and Paris.
  • 1988 The Process of International Arbitration, Tulane Law School, New Orleans, LA; International Legal Symposium, Budapest, Hungary; New York State Bar Association, New York, N.Y.
  • 1987 Evidence and Standards of Proof in International Arbitration, Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Boston
  • 1987 The Process of International Arbitration, American Corporate Counsel Association, Washington, D.C.
  • 1985 International Arbitration, Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, New York
  • 1984 Expropriation of Property and International Law American Arbitration Association, New York
  • 1981-1985 Iran U.S. Claims Tribunal Addresses in Washington, London, Rotterdam, The Hague, New York, Cambridge, Aspen, Chicago

Other Lectures and Presentations

  • 1987 Diplomatic Immunity, Testimony on Proposed Legislation, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Washington, D.C.
  • 1987 Diplomatic Immunity, Testimony on Proposed Legislation, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Washington, D.C.
  • 1987 Diplomatic Immunity, “Crossfire” program Washington, D.C.
  • 1987 Rules of Treaty Interpretation, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Washington, D.C.
  • 1986 International Law Practice, University of Michigan Law School; NYU Law School
  • 1985 U.S. Acceptance of I.C.J. Compulsory Jurisdiction Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, New York
  • 1985 Human Rights Treaties, American Bar Association Annual Meeting, London
  • 1984 Expropriation of Property and International Law American Arbitration Association, New York
  • 1980 Human Rights, Bonn, The Hague, University of South Carolina
  • 1980 Congressional Executive Relations and U.S. foreign policy, University of Virginia Law School, Cornell Law School, ABA meeting at Portland, Oregon, Vanderbilt Law School, Foreign Service Institute
  • 1979 Human Rights, American Bar Association, Washington, and Johns Hopkins University (SAIS)
  • 1979 China Recognition and Termination of Defense Treaty with Taiwan, New York University Law School
  • 1978 Human Rights, Northwestern Law School
  • 1977 Treaties and Executive Agreements, St. Louis University, Annual Meeting of American Society of International Law, Conference on National Treaty Law and Procedure, Bellagio, University of Virginia Law School, University of South Carolina
  • 1977 Human Rights Treaties, Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law; International Commission of Jurists, Ottawa, Canada
  • 1976 Treaties and Executive Agreements, Albany Law School, Christian Science Monitor, National War College, Council on Foreign Relations
  • 1975 Treaties and Executive Agreements, Cornell Law School
  • 1974 Legal Practitioners and Global Law Making, Princeton University
  • 1973 Southern Africa, Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association
  • 1973 Role of the Legal Adviser’s Office, American University
  • 1972 The South West Africa Cases, State University of New York at Purchase
  • 1972 The Secretary General, Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law
  • 1971 South West Africa, New School for Social Research
  • 1971 U.S. and Latin America; expropriation of property in international law, New School for Social Research
  • 1971 The Secretary General in World Politics, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
  • 1970 Nuclear Weapons Control, Cornell Alumni University
  • 1969 Middle East, Cornell University Convocation, Boston
  • 1969 Role of International Law, American Political Science Association Convention, New York
  • 1968 International Law and South West Africa, Barnard College
  • 1968 International Law, Wellesley College
  • 1967 United Nations, Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia
  • 1966 United Nations, Carnegie Endowment Center, Geneva