On the occasion of the seminar on “The New French Law on International Arbitration”, Professor Catherine Kessedjian will give an overview of the salient features of the new French law. Professor Kessedjian, who is currently a Global Visiting Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, is Director of a Master in European Law and Professor of European Business Law, Private International Law, International Dispute Resolution and International Commercial Arbitration at the University of Panthéon-Assas, Paris II, France. She is regularly invited to teach, in different countries, either at regular programs or as a visiting. She currently acts as mediator or arbitrator in a selected number of transnational disputes either ad hoc or under the auspices of, among others, ICSID, the ICC, LCIA and the AAA. Before joining Paris II, she was Deputy Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (1996-2000), on secondment from the Université de Bourgogne in France.
