International Arbitration: The Coming of a New Age for Asia (and Elsewhere).

• Sundaresh Menon SC, Attorney General of Singapore  (Singapore)
• Michael Pryles (Australia)
  

Panelists

• Gerold Herrmann (Austria)
• Doug Jones (Australia)
• Makhdoom Ali Khan (Pakistan)
• Kevin Kim (South Korea)
• Julian Lew (UK)
• Michael Moser (Hong Kong)
• Alexis Mourre (France)
• Lucy Reed (USA)
• David Williams (New Zealand)
• Ariel Ye (China)

Agreeing to and Initiating Arbitration.

Principal Moderator: James Castello (USA)
Rapporteur: Yu-Jin Tay (Singapore)
Rapporteur: Anibal Sabater (Spain)
Second Moderator: Domitille Baizeau (Switzerland)

General Introduction - Transcending national legal orders for international arbitration, both commercial and investment arbitration; legal theories; emerging transnational legal procedure; roles of international law and applicable national laws; lessons for ASEAN from the (Amended) EU Brussels Regulation and Lugano Convention etc..

Principal Moderator: Emmanuel Gaillard (France)
Rapporteur: Frédéric Bachand (Canada)
Rapporteur: Sébastien Besson (Switzerland)

The Arbitral Proceedings Commence, with an introduction to E and I Arbitration.

Principal Moderator: Martin Hunter (UK)
Rapporteur: Cavinder Bull (Singapore)
Rapporteur: Dominic Roughton (Japan)
Second Moderator: Jim Morrison (Australia)

The relationship between international arbitration and the national judge: both arbitral seat and enforcement; anti-suit and anti-arbitration injunctions; bad faith decisions under the New York Convention; state liability for interfering in the international arbitration process.

Principal Moderator: Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler (Switzerland)
Rapporteur: José Alvarez (USA)
Rapporteur: Adriana Braghetta (Brazil)
Second Moderator: Ieva Kalnina (Switzerland)

Evidence, Document Production, Witnesses, Experts and Hearings.

Principal Moderator: Teresa Cheng (Hong Kong)
Rapporteur: Nish Shetty (Singapore)
Rapporteur: Anne K. Hoffmann (Germany/ Switzerland)
Second Moderator: Adrian Lai (Hong Kong)

The relationship between international arbitration and the regulator(s): the need for ethical codes, guidelines and best practices for arbitration counsel , arbitrators, arbitral secretaries and arbitral institutions: the DB/MS Rio Code, the ILA Code and the CCBE draft Code.

Principal Moderator: Bernard Hanotiau (Belgium)
Rapporteur: Doak Bishop (USA)
Rapporteur: Toby Landau (UK)
Second Moderator: Min Xiaomao (Singapore)
Second Moderator: J. Romesh Weeramantry (Hong Kong)

The Tribunal Resolves the Dispute.

Principal Moderator: Audley Sheppard (New Zealand)
Rapporteur: Jakob Ragnwaldh (Sweden)
Rapporteur: Minn Naing Oo (Singapore)
Second Moderator: Chester Brown (Australia)

The Future of European Community Investment Policy:
Navigating between a high level of investment protection and increasing demands for "policy space". - Lessons from the US experience.

Principal Moderator: Kevin Kim (South Korea)
Rapporteur: Dan Price (USA)
Rapporteur: Nikos Lavranos (Netherlands)
Second Moderator: John Bang (Korea)

Legal and Arbitration Costs.

Principal Moderator: Siegfried Elsing (Germany)
Rapporteur: Judith Gill (UK)
Rapporteur: Jean-Claude Najar (France)
Second Moderator: John M. Townsend (USA)

The future of ICSID, Ad Hoc Committees, Appellate Tribunals, International Investment Courts and Investment Arbitration.

Principal Moderator: Brigitte Stern (France)
Rapporteur: Andrea Menaker (USA)
Rapporteur: Christopher Thomas (Canada)
Second Moderator: Emmanuelle Cabrol  (France)

The use of Arbitral Secretaries under the New UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and Otherwise: Opportunities and Pitfalls.

Principal Moderator: Constantine Partasides (Cyprus & UK)
Rapporteur: Niuscha Bassiri (Iran)
Rapporteur: Ulrike Gantenberg (Germany)
Second Moderator: Andrew Riccio (USA)

General Lessons for the New Technological Age of International Arbitration: “Let not what happened to newspaper-owners, book-publishers and candle-stick makers happen to arbitration practitioners ….”

Principal Moderator: William K. Slate II (USA)
Rapporteur: The Hon Lord Saville (UK)
Rapporteur: Vicky Harris (UK)
Rapporteur: Steve Fleming (UK)
Rapporteur: Mohamed Abdel Wahab (Egypt)
Second Moderator: Philippe Pinsolle (France)

Joint Plenary Closing Session D
Judicial Debate on the General Theme: "State Courts and International Arbitration: The Future".

Principal Moderator: Albert Jan van den Berg (Netherlands)
Second Moderator: V. V. Veeder (UK)
Panel Secretary: Silvia Borelli (Italy/ Netherlands)

Judicial Debaters:

• The Hon Sundaresh Menon SC (Attorney General of Singapore)
• The Hon Justice Ribeiro (Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong)
• The Hon Murray M Gleeson AC (Former Chief Justice of Australia)
• The Hon Judge Judith Kaye (Former Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals)
• The Hon Judge Dominique Hascher (Presiding Judge at the Court of Appeal of Reims)
• The Hon Lord Mance (Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)
• The Hon Judge Hossein Abedian (Member of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal at The Hague / Former Justice of the Iranian Supreme Court)
• The Hon Judge Ellen Gracie (Former Chief Justice of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil/ Former President of the Supreme Court of Brazil)
• The Hon Judge Oksana Kozyr (Judge of the Russian Supreme Arbitrazh Court)
• The Hon Justice Bellur Narayanaswamy Srikrishna (Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India)
• The Hon Judge Xiangyang, Xi(Judge of the Fourth Civil Division, The Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China)