Lessons from International Tribunals and from Other Perspectives
The Future of Categories - Categories of the Future, 2009 Toronto Conference, International Association of Procedural Law
June 3-5, 2009
Osgoode Hall Law School
York University
Toronto, ON, Canada
Event participants:
Henri C. Alvarez Q.C.
The 2009 conference titled The Future of Categories - Categories of the Future brings together members of the International Association of Procedural Law and leading proceduralists from around the world. Delegates will hear their perspectives on the ways in which procedural reform is precipitating a collapse of the traditional categories of civil and common law in response to a new range of concerns and aspirations for procedure, and to share your experiences with the evolution of procedure and your views on the way in which it is being shaped by the changing role of dispute resolution in society.
Henri Alvarez, QC, is part of a panel featured in the session Lessons from International Tribunals and from Other Perspectives. The panel will discuss International Commercial Arbitration.
Following an introductory overivew of initiatives in international arbitration to accommodate the civil law and the common law in a combined process, the panel will deomonstrate, in a mock procedural hearing in an arbitration between a civil law and a common law party before arbitrators from both systems, the interaction between procedural traditions that is producing a unique blend of practices suitable for resolving international commercial disputes.