NYU’s Intesa Sanpaolo Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law is glad to announce that on Thursday, October 15, from 3:30 to 6:30 pm, together with King& Spalding LLP it will host the presentation of “The Annulment of Arbitral Awards: A Global Guide” (2026), a book just published by Kluwer, co-edited by Professor Friedrich Rosenfeld, Professor Julio César Rivera Jr., and the Center’s Director, Professor Franco Ferrari.
The event will take place at King & Spalding’s New York offices, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor.
Setting-aside proceedings at the seat remain one of the most consequential and least uniform stages in the life-cycle of an arbitration. The grounds on which courts will annul an award, and how strictly they apply them, vary considerably from one jurisdiction to another, with direct consequences for parties, counsel and tribunals alike. The book offers a comparative guide to these questions, and the presentation will walk through its principal themes, each addressed by a speaker with deep practical and scholarly experience in the field.
Jessica Beess und Chrostin of King & Spalding LLP, a partner in the firm’s International Disputes group in New York and London with particular expertise in global award enforcement disputes, will address public policy as a ground for annulment. Thomas Childs, counsel at King & Spalding LLP in New York, whose practice centers on U.S. litigation over the enforcement of arbitral awards under the Federal Arbitration Act, the New York Convention and the ICSID Convention, will speak on arbitrability. Julio César Rivera Jr. of Marval O’Farrell Mairal, a partner in the firm’s Complex Litigation & Arbitration department and Global Adjunct Professor at NYU, will discuss consent, jurisdiction and excess of authority. Friedrich Rosenfeld of HANEFELD, a partner at the Hamburg and Paris arbitration boutique and Global Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Paris program, will turn to due process and procedural irregularities. Franci Ferrari will examine waiver and forfeiture of the right to seek annulment.
For practitioners, arbitrators and scholars who deal with the post-award phase, this is an opportunity to hear from the editors and some contributors whether annulment law is converging, and where it still diverges. Seating is limited, so please register early: https://forms.gle/cEUKLvrj4TbAZECBA.