NYU’s Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law is glad to announce that it will host, together with the Shanghai International Dispute Resolution Center, the Commercial Arbitration Research Center of the Shanghai International Arbitration Center (SHIAC), and Jincheng Tonga & Neal Law Firm (JT&N) an in-person event titled “Who Owns International Arbitration.” The event, which will take place on Friday, January 17, 2025, at the premises of the Shanghai International Dispute Resolution Center, will address the stakeholders’ expectations regarding due process, efficiency, party autonomy, as well as other important features of international commercial arbitration.
In particular, in the first part of the event, moderated by Mr. Rui Zou, the Deputy Director of the Cooperation and Development Department of SHIAC, Ms. Weijun Wang, SHIAC’s Secretary-General, will give some opening remarks under the heading “Balance of Trinity: SHIAC’s view and practice on arbitration proceedings”, while Professor Franco Ferrari, the Center’s Executive Director, will give the keynote speech titled ”Party autonomy and its limitations in international arbitration.”
The second part of the event will be a panel discussion focusing on “Risk and Prevention in the Cross Border Investment Context and the Choice of Dispute Resolution Clauses”. The participants will be Ms. Christine Kang (Partner and Co-Chair of the China Practice of Hughes Hubbard Reed), Ms. Suosheng Xu (Director of the Cooperation and Development Department of SHIAC), Mr. Alex Lu (CEO BrioHealth Technologies), Mr. JianJun Zhang (Legal and Compliance Director, Zhejiang Seaport), and Mr. Salmon Zhou (Partner, JT&N).
The second panel discussion will examine “Who Owns International Arbitration”. It will see the participation of Domenico Di Pietro (as moderator), Ms. Guang Yang (Deputy Secretary General of SHIAC), Ms. Tina Zhang (Legal Director, Donjiu Panyi Shanghai Property Management Co. Ltd), and Ms. Lexie Du (Partner, JT&N).
Mr. LeiLei Ye, the Managing Partner of JT&M, will give the closing remarks.
For more information, see the flyer!