Membership of Young ICCA

Membership of Young ICCA is open to practitioners and students who:

• Are under 40.
• Have some previous exposure to arbitration or dispute resolution (e.g. have followed a course at postgraduate level/ have volunteered or interned in an arbitration or ADR practice or institution/ or have practised some form of ADR).
• Can demonstrate a genuine interest in pursuing a career in the practice of arbitration.
• Membership of Young ICCA is entirely separate from membership of ICCA itself. Not all Members can be accommodated in the Mentoring Programme

Membership applications will not be acknowledged directly; all those applicants who meet the above criteria will be added to the Young ICCA database. A complete list of current Young ICCA members is available on this website and will be updated regularly.

Members are encouraged to network with each other, and to propose projects for Young ICCA to take up.

Advisory Members (“Buddies”)

 Young ICCA also includes Advisory Members who are:

• Under 45 years.

• Have a minimum of  3-5 years’ experience in the field of arbitration (e.g. employment with a law firm with participation in an arbitration practice; employment at a recognised arbitral institute; employment or link to an academic institution in the fields of arbitration/dispute resolution).

• Able to share their skills in a variety of Young ICCA activities (including the Mentoring Programme, training sessions, regional conferences, publications and ad hoc projects)

A complete list of current Young ICCA Buddies is available here. New applicants who meet the above criteria will be added to the database and the listing on this site updated regularly.

Members and Buddies are encouraged to network with each other, and to propose projects for Young ICCA to take up.

The Mentoring Programme

Through this programme, Young ICCA Members have been linked to a Young ICCA Advisory Memger (“buddy”) and to a Mentor (an ICCA Council Member or ICCA Advisory Member) for 2011-2012, and will be eligible for exchange of arbitration know-how and career advice within their allocated Mentoring Groups. The following guidelines are applicable:

• Mentors and Buddies will answer reasonable queries from linked Members by email regarding career development, arbitration practice and arbitration know-how.
• Mentors and Buddies will “meet” with Members (either together or individually) no less than twice per year (by phone, video conference or personal meeting).
• Throughout the Programme, Buddies will answer reasonable queries from Members for provision of know-how (e.g., academic articles and, where appropriate, practice sheets, templates or precedents).

 No fee is charged for participation in the Mentoring Programme, and no financial benefits or funding is available through this Programme.

In allocating Members to the Mentoring Programme, Young ICCA has aimed to achieve a broad diversity and a wide geographical distribution, including appropriate representation of candidates from countries that are underrepresented in the current practice of international arbitration.

Thank you to all applicants for an overwhelming response for the 2011-2012 Mentoring Programme -- which meant that we could not accommodate everybody in the Programme, but have been able to set up an extensive database for participation in other Young ICCA activities. Those applicants who could not be accommodated in the Mentoring Programme are strongly encouraged to participate in other Young ICCA activities.

These activities include:

·      organising Young ICCA events in your region

·      coordinating and contributing to the Young ICCA Facebook page

·      coordinating and contributing to the Young ICCA blog and publications pages

·      participating in special projects

Watch this space for more details – and if any of these projects appeals to you, please contact us at registration@youngicca.org!