25th Anniversary Panel Discussion

Penn State International Law Review, the American Society of International Law, and the Coalition for Peace and Ethics are pleased to announce the 25th Anniversary Panel Discussion: “Finality and Enforceability of International Arbitration Awards in Latin America.” The panel discussion will be held on December 15, 2006 at the American Society of International Law. A lunch will be offered at 11:30 a.m., which will be followed by the panel from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. Registration is free, and CLE credit is available upon request.

The panel discussion will feature Penn State Law’s Orlando Distinguished Professor Thomas E. Carbonneau. Professor Carbonneau is generally regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on international commercial arbitration and as an acknowledged expert on domestic arbitration. He is the faculty director of Penn State's Institute for Arbitration Law and Practice and the director of the law school's McGill Faculty of Law Summer Program in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Professor Carbonneau is the executive editor of the Latin American Arbitration Report and editor-in-chief of the World Arbitration and Mediation Report, two widely read and well-regarded professional publications published by the Institute. He has served as a member of the Editorial Board of La Revue de L'Arbitrage and is the author of more than a dozen highly acclaimed books and 75 scholarly articles.

Joining Professor Carbonneau will be Penn State Professor Larry Cata Backer as moderator, Thacher Proffitt & Wood’s Oliver J. Arnas, Winston & Strawn’s Ronald E.M. Goodman, and the editor-in-chief of the Latin American Arbitration Report, Mary Helen Mourra. For more information on the panelists, click here.

Location:

Tillar House, ASIL Headquarters 2223 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20008