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Newsletter 2012
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Newsletter 2012
November 28th, 2012 | posted by Sofia Burau in
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Chicago international Dispute Resolution Association Peter V. Baugher, President One S Wacker Dr Ste 2800
Chicago IL 60606 USA 312-409-1373 cidra@sw.com Copyright 1999 - 2009 by CIDRA. All Rights Reserved
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Newsletter 2012
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Dear CIDRA Friends,
Welcome to the Chicago International
Dispute Resolution Association’s 2012
edition Newsletter. We present you with
updates on events CIDRA organized and
held this year:
An Expert Witness View of
International Arbitration
The Chicago International Dispute
Resolution Association opened its fall
program season on Thursday, October
18, 2012, with a continental breakfast
presentation by John Levitske,
Managing Director, Commercial Disputes
of Duff & Phelps, at the firm's Chicago
office on 311 South Wacker Drive, 10th
Floor Conference Center, Chicago.
Mr. Levitske discussed Real World
Experiences in International Arbitration
: The Expert Witness' Perspective. John
has served as an expert witness,
consultant and co-arbitrator in various
international arbitrations involving
accounting, valuation, or economic
damages issues. Mostly recently, he
served as an expert witness in two
international arbitrations in Europe and
was selected to the Who's Who of
International Commercial Arbitration -
Experts 2011.
Fundamentals of International
Arbitration
The NATO Summit in Chicago came off
well in May, as did CIDRA's pre-summit
briefing on the issues discussed. After
that CIDRA returned to commercial law
with an expert panel on the
"Fundamentals of International
Arbitration” on Tuesday evening, July 17
Chicago international Dispute Resolution Association Peter V. Baugher, President One S Wacker Dr Ste 2800
Chicago IL 60606 USA 312-409-1373 cidra@sw.com Copyright 1999 - 2009 by CIDRA. All Rights Reserved
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at Baker & McKenzie LLP, 300 East
Randolph Street, Chicago.
The North American Alliance in the 21st
Century: NATO was formed in 1949 in
response to the threat posed by the
Soviet Union. That threat largely
disappeared with the Soviet collapse 20
years ago. The Alliance was intended not
just to deter Soviet expansionism,
however, but also to prevent the revival
of nationalist militarism in Europe, and to
encourage European political integration.
In the words of the first NATO Secretary
General, Lord Ismay, NATO's goal was "to
keep the Russians out, the Americans in,
and the Germans down." NATO's principal
operational mission today is its
International Security Assistance Force in
Afghanistan (echoing the decade of
Soviet intervention there that began in
1979). What are NATO's other security
and political goals? Should its
membership continue to expand and with
what consequences? How will Europe's
financial and political challenges affect
the Alliance's future?
Leading our conversation was DePaul
Law School Professor Alberto R. Coll,
Director of DePaul's European and Latin
American Legal Studies Program. Before
joining DePaul, Dr. Coll chaired the
Strategic Research Department of the
U.S. Naval War College, where he also
served as dean of the Center for Naval
Warfare Studies. During the first Bush
administration he served as deputy
assistant secretary of defense,
overseeing the Defense Department's
policy, strategy and resources in areas of
special operations forces and "low
intensity" conflict, including
counterterrorism. Dr. Coll is the
author of The Wisdom of Statecraft,
among other books and articles on
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Chicago IL 60606 USA 312-409-1373 cidra@sw.com Copyright 1999 - 2009 by CIDRA. All Rights Reserved
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international relations and law. He
graduated from Princeton University and
University of Virginia Law School.
Lord David Hacking on "Meeting
Crises in Arbitration Practice"
On Wednesday, April 18, 2012, CIDRA
presented a breakfast discussion with
British barrister and international
arbitrator and mediator Lord David
Hacking. Lord Hacking spoke on
"Meeting Crises in Arbitration Practice."
He also commented on Cape Flattery v.
Titan Maritime, 647 F.3d 914 (9th Cir.
2011), the subject of CIDRA's recent
Supreme Court amicus brief, and Jivraj v.
Hashwani, a controversial English case on
appointment of arbitrators with religious
qualifications. This special event was at
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, 525 West
Monroe Street, Chicago and hosted by
Alexander Vesselinovitch.
David Hacking is a Chartered Arbitrator in
London. For the last 40 years, he has
undertaken commercial litigation and
arbitration cases. He was educated at
Cambridge University and Inns of Court
School of Law. He practices from Littleton
Chambers and undertakes appointments
as counsel, arbitrator and mediator in
commercial disputes. Since January 2000
he has issued over 140 arbitration
awards.
As Lord Hacking, he was a member of the
House of Lords for 28 years and from
1989 to 1999 a Member of the House of
Lords Select Committee on the European
Communities. He was actively involved in
the reform of English arbitration law and
paved the way in Parliament for the 1979
UK Arbitration Act and played a
prominent part during the passage
through Parliament of the 1996 UK
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Chicago IL 60606 USA 312-409-1373 cidra@sw.com Copyright 1999 - 2009 by CIDRA. All Rights Reserved
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Arbitration Act.
Doing Business in Hong Kong, China
& Asia: International Trade
Transactions & Hong Kong's Dispute
Resolution Service
In conjunction with the Hong Kong Trade
Development Council, CIDRA
hosted Teresa Cheng, Vice
Chairperson of the Hong Kong
International Arbitration Centre and
Vice-President of the ICC International
Court of Arbitration at a breakfast on
Monday, March 26, 2012. The event
was held at the University Club, 76 East
Monroe Street, Chicago and was
featuring:
Ms Teresa Cheng, GBS, SC, JP, Vice
Chairperson, Hong Kong
International Arbitration Centre,
shared her insights and extensive Hong
Kong/ China experience in arbitration,
mediation and Counsel to international
companies doing business in China.
Mr Alfred Ho, Vice President, Global
Financial Institutions & Risk
Management, FirstMerit Bank,
discussed issues and challenges faced by
U.S. companies in international trade
transactions with a focus on the China
and Asia markets.
Mr Peter Baugher, President,
Chicago International Dispute
Resolution Association, & Partner,
Schopf & Weiss LLP, moderated the
Q&A and made introductory remarks.
Ramon Mullerat to Update CIDRA on
ICC Rules
Our good friend, Ramon Mullerat,
spoke on the new 2011 ICC Rules of
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Chicago IL 60606 USA 312-409-1373 cidra@sw.com Copyright 1999 - 2009 by CIDRA. All Rights Reserved
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Arbitration at CIDRA breakfast on
Wednesday, March 14, 2012, at The
John Marshall Law School, 315 South
Plymouth Court, Chicago.
Mr. Mullerat is an attorney at Iuris
Vallas law firm in Barcelona, Spain.
In addition to being a former law
professor at Barcelona University and an
adjunct professor at the John Marshall
Law School in Chicago, Mr. Mullerat has
held many distinguished positions. These
include the Presidency of the Council of
the Bars and Law Societies of the
European Union, Co-Chair of the Human
Rights Institute of the International Bar
Association, and Chairman of Commission
2020 of the International Bar Association.
Mr. Mullerat is a world-renowned author
and speaker, and an expert in
international commercial arbitration.
Please join us for what is sure to be an
informative presentation and discussion.
An English summary of Mr. Mullerat's
recent paper on this subject could be
found in the Archived Articles soon.
Loyola Willem Vis Arbitration Moot
CIDRA and the Chartered Institute
of Arbitrators were again sponsoring
the Loyola Willem Vis Arbitration Moot.
Law students were prepared for the
Vienna and Hong Kong Vis Arbitration
competitions at the Loyola University of
Chicago School of Law Pre-Moot on
Saturday, February 18, 2012. For
inform
ation
on the
Vis: http://cisgw3.law.pace.edu/vis.html
and www.cisgmoot.org (Hong Kong).
Arbitration of Foreign Investor
Claims
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Chicago IL 60606 USA 312-409-1373 cidra@sw.com Copyright 1999 - 2009 by CIDRA. All Rights Reserved
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Launching 2012 was San Diego School
of Law Professor Ralph Folsom,
speaking on "Arbitration of Foreign
Investor Claims Against Governments,"
Friday, January 27, 2012, at John Marshall
Law School, 315 South Plymouth Court,
Chicago. Professor Folsom, whose
two-volume Practitioner Treatise on
International Business Transactions (3rd
edition West) had just been published,
delivered his 11th annual lecture on
international business and trade law.
ICC Arbitration Update
Litigator, arbitrator, former federal
prosecutor James Ferguson of Mayer
Brown LLP updated us on ICC
arbitrations, Tuesday morning, January
31, 2012, at Mayer Brown LLP, 71 South
Wacker Drive, Chicago. He illustrated his
survey with case studies on Big Pharma
arbitrations. Mr. Ferguson is a Fellow of
the American College of Trial Lawyers. He
is also a registered neutral with the
American Arbitration Association, the
International Chamber of Commerce, and
the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.
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