Arbitration: The Next Fifty Years

Introductory Remarks

Jan Paulsson, President of ICCA.

Welcome Message from the Swiss Federal Government

Simonetta Sommaruga.

Gala Dinner Address

V.V. Veeder.

Introduction to ICCA”s 50th Anniversary Conference

Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler.

The Present – Commercial Arbitration as a Transnational System of Justice.

Chair: Albert Jan van den Berg

Introduction: Albert Jan van den Berg

The Present – Commercial Arbitration as a Transnational

System of Justice: Introduction to the Session

Report: W. Michael Reisman and Brian Richardson

Tribunals and Courts: An Interpretation of the Architecture of International Commercial Arbitration

Comment: Emmanuel Gaillard

International Arbitration as a Transnational System of Justice Comment: Luca G. Radicati Di Brozolo

The Control System of Arbitral Awards: A Pro-Arbitration Critique of Michael Reisman’s “Architecture of International Commercial Arbitration”

Comment: Karim Youssef

Universal Arbitration Between Freedom and Constraint: The Challenges and Control of Jurisdiction in Multiparty, Multi-Contract Arbitration

The Present – Investment Arbitration as a Governance Tool for Economic International Relations?

Chair: Donald Francis Donovan

Introduction: Donald Francis Donovan The Present – Investment Arbitration as a Governance Tool for Economic International Relations?; Introduction to the Session

Report: José E. Alvarez

Is the International Investment Regime a Form of Global Governance?

Comment: Bruno Simma

Foreign Investment, Human Rights and Global Governance

Comment: Sir Franklin Berman, KCMG, QC

The Investment Treaty Arbitrator as Agent of Global Governance

Comment: Anthea Roberts

The Next Battleground: Standards of Review in Investment Treaty Arbitration

The Future – What Will Change?

Chair: Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler

Round Table Discussion

Appendices

Appendix I: ICCA 50 Organizing Committee

A Brief History of ICCA

Appendix II: Clyde Croft

The Development of Australia as an Arbitral Seat – A Victorian Supreme Court Perspective

Annex I: Supreme Court of Victoria, Practice Note 2 of 2010 – Arbitration Business

List of Participants

List of ICCA Officers and Members