Legitimacy: Myths, Challenges, Realities

Preface Albert Jan van den Berg, General Editor

ICCA Congress 2016

Table of Contents

Keynote Address: In Defense of Bilateral Investment Treaties Judge Stephen M. Schwebel

Opening Plenary Session

Chairs: Lucy Reed and Meg Kinnear

Rapporteurs: James Freda and Tobias Lehmann

A-1 Proof: A Plea for Precision

Chair: David Brynmor Thomas

Rapporteur: Timothy L. Foden

A-2 Early Stages of the Arbitral Process: Interim Measures and Document Production

Chair: John Barkett

Rapporteur: Natalie Reid

A-3 Matters of Evidence: Witness and Experts

Chair: Nathalie Voser

Rapporteur: Nicholas Lingard

A-4 Treaty Arbitration: Pleading and Proof of Fraud and comparable Forms of Abuse

Chair: Klaus Reichert SC

Rapporteur: Elizabeth Karanja

B-1 Who Are the Arbitrators?

Chair: Adriana Braghetta

Rapporteur: Ricardo Dalmaso Marques Ricardo Dalmaso Marques

B-2 Premise: Arbitral Institutions Can Do More to Further Legitimacy. True or False?

Chair: Salim Moollan

Rapporteur: Belinda McRae

B-3 Treaty Arbitration: Is the Playing Field Level and Who Decides Whether It Is Anyway?

Chair: Anna Joubin-Bret

Rapporteur: Neeti Sachdeva

B-4 Universal Arbitration: An Aspiration Within Reach or a Sisyphean Goal?

Chair: Dushyant Dave

Rapporteur: Kathleen Claussen

Plenary Session: Spotlight on International Arbitration in Miami and the United States

Chair: John Barkett

Rapporteur: Frank Cruz-Alvarez

Breakout Sessions on Arbitral Legitimacy: The Users’ And Judges’ Perspectives

Chairs: José Astigarraga, Melanie van Leeuwen, Joseph Matthews and Edna Sussman

Rapporteurs: Luis González García, Amanda Lees, Ruth Mosch and L Andrew S. Riccio

Lunch Seminar: Latin America: Hottest Issues, Country by Country

Chair: R. Doak Bishop

Rapporteur: Ricardo Dalmaso Marques

Lunch Seminar: Power of Arbitration to Fill Gaps in the Arbitration Agreement and Underlying Contract

Chair: John H. Rooney, Jr.

Rapporteur: Elodie Dulac

Closing Plenary

Rapporteurs: James Freda and Tobias Lehmann

List of Participants

List of ICCA Officers and Governing Board Members