Stacie Strong from Missouri sends along the following call for papers for a symposium entitled Border Skirmishes: The Intersection Between Litigation and International Commercial Arbitration. Note that the relevant links are in the announcement’s text.
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The Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri School of Law has put out a call for papers and proposals in connection with the Center’s annual symposium. This year’s meeting features Gary Born as keynote speaker as well as expert panelists from Canada, Austria, Switzerland and the United States. The symposium will be held on October 21, 2011, and is entitled “Border Skirmishes: The Intersection Between Litigation and International Commercial Arbitration.”
The call relates to two events that are being organized in connection with this year’s symposium:
- A works-in-progress conference for academics and scholarly-minded practitioners to be held on October 20, 2011, the day prior to the symposium itself (proposals due May 20, 2011); and
- A student writing competition with a $300 prize sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) North American Branch (papers due August 15, 2011).
More information about the works-in-progress conference, the student writing competition and the submission process is available at the symposium website, located at: http://www.law.missouri.edu/csdr/symposium/2011/. Submissions and questions should be directed to Professor S.I. Strong at strongsi@missouri.edu. Registration for the symposium itself will open shortly.
Keynote speaker Gary Born was awarded Global Arbitration Review’s inaugural “Advocate of the Year” prize on 3 March 2011 at the annual GAR awards dinner in Seoul, Korea. Mr. Born is the author of a number of leading publications on international arbitration and litigation, including International Commercial Arbitration (Kluwer 2009), International Forum Selection and Arbitration Agreements: Drafting and Enforcing (Kluwer 2010), International Arbitration: Cases and Materials (Aspen 2011), and International Civil Litigation in US Courts (Aspen 2007).
