ILA Committee on Conflict-of-Laws Issues in International Arbitration: First Webinar on 18 February 2025

This put up was written by Lukas Petschning, College of Vienna.

Battle of legal guidelines is likely one of the most advanced and disputed topic areas in worldwide arbitration. An abundance of educational works has examined the difficulty and proposed broadly diverging options. But, these research incessantly deal with remoted points and lack general consistency. Equally, they’re usually overly theoretical, missing sensible steerage helpful to the typical arbitrator or choose.

Forging a path towards extra authorized certainty, the Worldwide Legislation Affiliation has established a brand new Committee on Battle-of-Legal guidelines Points in Worldwide Arbitration. It’s chaired by Dr Nikolaus Pitkowitz and Ms Wendy Lin, with Professor Matthias Lehmann and Dr Mariel Dimsey performing as co-rapporteurs.

The Committee plans to train its mandate in three phases from 2025 to 2030. Initially, a common methodology for the decision of conflict-of-laws points confronted by arbitrators and supervisory courts might be developed. Within the second part, the Committee will remodel this system into draft rules, which shall present a harmonious method to all or most conflict-of-laws points which can come up within the context of worldwide arbitration. The rules might be sufficiently exact to allow their quotation as tender regulation by arbitral tribunals or courts on particular topic issues. In a 3rd part, the Committee will discover the advisability of growing laborious regulation guidelines, e.g. within the type of treaties, mannequin legal guidelines, or amendments to present institutional guidelines.

The Committee is happy to announce its first webinar, introducing its mandate, the envisaged timeline of the Committee’s work, and the principal points prone to be mentioned. All people are expressly inspired to take part through the next Zoom hyperlinks; prior registration will not be essential.

The webinar might be held in two classes on 18 February 2025, to allow participation from most time zones:

Session 1 (Asia, Oceania, EMEA): 8am (London) / 4pm (Hong Kong) / 7pm (Sydney)Session 2 (Americas, EMEA): 8am (US Pacific) / 11am (US Jap) / 4pm (London)

The Committee may be reached through e-mail at ILA-CLC-Committee@pitkowitz.com.

Extra data on the Committee’s work may be discovered right here.