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Partner presents at Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law

Partner presents at Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law

Apr 25, 2024
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BCLP Partner and Global Co-Leader of International Arbitration, Pedro J. Martinez-Fraga, presented at the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law’s in-person conference at NYU School of Law on April 24, 2024. The conference was co-hosted by the Center and SciencesPo Law School and focused on “Exceptionalism in International Commercial Arbitration”.

The aim of the conference was to highlight the features which characterize certain arbitration regimes and distinguish them from other ones, thus rendering them "exceptional". Mr. Martinez-Fraga and the other speakers identified aspects of various arbitration regimes, which are peculiar to those arbitration regimes. In doing so, they addressed the arbitrability of claims, arbitration clauses in adhesion contracts, the competence-competence principle, the constitutional review of arbitral awards, deference to decisions upholding an award, the duty of disclosure, the extension of arbitration agreements to non-signatories, resort to the forum non conveniens doctrine at the enforcement stage, and pre-arbitration requirements. Professor Franco Ferrari, the convener of the conference, acted as moderator.

This conference was the second to be co-hosted by the Center and SciencesPo Law School on the topic of exceptionalism, the first one having been held in Paris, at SciencesPo Law School, in November 2023.

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