Fordham Law hosts conference on international arbitration and mediation
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — On Friday, November 22, Fordham Law School will host its 14th annual Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation, “Key Issues in International Commercial and Treaty Arbitration: 2019.” This year, the conference is one of the culminating events of the inaugural New York Arbitration Week, which brings together arbitration advocates and academics from…
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — The University of Houston Law Center’s Center for U.S. and Mexican Law led a dialogue on ways to address the growing amount of plastic in the world’s oceans during a roundtable discussion on the University of Houston campus. Experts from a variety of fields described the impacts that plastic…
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW — Lewis & Clark Law Professor Ozan Varol was recently inducted into the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL), a highly selective academy of scholars that was founded at The Hague following World War I. Only a few scholars are nominated from the United States each year. The IACL focuses on a…
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Bernard Oxman, director of Miami Law’s LL.M. in Maritime Law has been appointed as a judge ad hoc of the Special Chamber constituted by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. He will hear the dispute between the Republic of Maldives and the Republic of Mauritius concerning…
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UNIVERSITY MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Such was the case that brought more than 300 students and 130 judges to the University of Miami School of Law recently for the four days of the 2019 Global Oral Hearings of the Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot Competition in cooperation with the Center for International Legal Studies…
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Students at the University of Virginia School of Law recently helped organize a three-day conference on human rights reforms that was co-hosted by the school’s International Human Rights Clinic in Washington, D.C. The conference brought together about 20 experts with experience in the European Court of Human Rights, the U.N.…
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WIDENER UNIVERSITY COMMONWEALTH LAW SCHOOL — Donald A. Brown, scholar in residence at Widener University Commonwealth Law School, recently became the first American to be awarded the prestigious Avicenna Prize for excellence in climate change ethics by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). For four decades, Brown has worked to enhance public understanding of…
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — In early November, CWRU Law Co-Dean Michael Scharf traveled to Bangkok to meet with alumni and sign a new partnership agreement with Assumption University School of Law. The Agreement creates a “3+1” and a “1+1+1” program under which Assumption students can undertake the final year of their LLB or their Masters at…
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CLEVELAND-MARSHALL COLLEGE OF LAW — Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and the IOT Collaborative in partnership with the University College London’s world-leading Centre for Blockchain Technologies UCL CBT) invite you to attend the Blockchain Law and Business Basics Workshop. This workshop is grounded in the growing number of significant industrial and governmental research engagements conducted by UCL CBT.
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FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW — Florida International University College of Law, in collaboration with the Permanent Missions of Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Finland, Sierra Leone and The Gambia to the United Nations, co-hosted a high-level afternoon event entitled “The International Law Commission as a Way Forward on Universal Criminal Jurisdiction” at the United Nations…
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