This is to announce the February 2016 session of the Arbitration Forum of the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law, entitled “Arbitrator Power: The Transatlantic Divide”, which will take place on Monday, 29February 2016, from 6.00 – 8.00 pm, in the Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, Furman Hall 900 (245 Sullivan Street, New York, NY 10012).
It is a great pleasure to be able to announce that Professor Margaret Moses will give a talk on the aforementioned topic and that Dr. Monique Sasson and Mr. Christian Alberti agreed to act as commentators.
Margaret L. Moses is Professor of Law and Director of International Programs at Loyola University Chicago. A scholar in the field of international commercial arbitration, the second edition of her treatise on international commercial arbitration was published in May 2012 by Cambridge University Press. Her teaching and writings are informed by her participation as an arbitrator or advocate in arbitrations under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce, Court of Arbitration and the American Arbitration Association’s International Centre for Dispute Resolution, as well as in ad hoc arbitrations. In addition to arbitration, her areas of interest and research include international business transactions, international letters of credit, and international trade finance. Her articles on arbitration, international letters of credit, good faith, and other topics have appeared in many U.S. law reviews, as well as in foreign and international journals. She has been an invited speaker at national and international conferences in many different countries. Professor Moses heads Loyola Chicago’s Vis Moot Arbitration program, which sends students to compete in both Vienna and Hong Kong. She has a J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law and a Ph.D. degree from Indiana University.
Dr. Monique Sasson initially qualified as an Italian Avvocato and practiced in Rome (with Studio Legale Chiomenti), where she appeared before arbitral tribunals and Italian courts. In 2000, she joined Herbert Smith’s international litigation/arbitration practice group in London, qualified as an English solicitor (and subsequently as a solicitor advocate), and acted for clients in a number of international arbitration cases as well as litigation matters. In 2009, Monique obtained her Ph.D. degree from Cambridge University, and the following year Kluwer published a revised version of her doctoral thesis under the title Substantive Law in Investment Treaty Arbitration: The Unsettled Relationship Between International Law and Municipal Law. In 2015, Monique joined JAMS as a full time arbitrator, dividing her time between New York and London. Monique currently resides in New York City, is a member of the New York Bar, and serves on the New York City Bar Committee on Arbitration. She is an associate editor of Kluwer Arbitration Blog, and is the Co-Managing Editor of several ITA publications, including the ITA Arbitration Report and World Trade and Arbitration Materials. Monique is a Member at Large of the ITA Advisory Board and its Executive Committee.
Christian P. Alberti is the AVP/Director of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the international division of the American Arbitration Association (AAA). He supervises the ICDR’s staff and center management activities and oversees hundreds of large complex multi-party arbitrations and mediations covering all types of disputes and industries each year. Prior to joining the ICDR in 2005, Christian headed the Italian Desk of a mid-size law firm in Germany. Christian is the former President and Honorary Member of the Alumni Association of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (MAA). He is regularly invited to speak at international conferences and guest lectures at various law schools about international arbitration and mediation in the United States and abroad. He successfully coaches New York University’s Vis Moot Team since 2007 and its Foreign Direct Investment Moot Team since 2008. He is a founding member of the International Arbitration Club of New York, a member of the Arbitration Committee of the New York City Bar (2012-2015), an associate of Pace University’s Institute of International Commercial Law, as well as a member of various international ADR associations. After studies at the Philipps-University of Marburg, the German University for Administrative Sciences Speyer (DHV) and the University of Queensland he was admitted to practice law in Germany in 2003 and in the State of New York in 2011. He obtained an LL.M. from Tulane University Law School in 2002.