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2009 Taipei International Conference on

Arbitration and Mediation

2009台北仲裁暨調解國際研討會


Co-Hosts

Arbitration Association of the Republic of China

中華民國仲裁協會

Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy, College of Law, National Taiwan University (ACWH)

台大法律學院亞洲WTO暨國際衛生法與政策研究中心


協辦單位

Sponsor

台北律師公會

Taipei Bar Association


Date: October 16-17, 2009

Venue: Arbitration Association of the Republic of China, Taipei, Taiwan

地點:中華民國仲裁協會


Draft Agenda


October 16, 2009 (Friday)

 8:00-  9:00

Registration  報到

 9:00-  9:10

Opening Remarks

Nigel N. T. Li (李念祖律師), Chairman, Arbitration Association of the ROC; Partner, Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law

Chang-fa Lo (羅昌發教授), Chair Professor/Lifetime Distinguished Professor, College of Law, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

9:10- 12:00

Session I    Recent Development of Commercial Arbitration and   Mediation in Other Jurisdictions       

商務仲裁之最近發展

Chairperson: Nigel N. T. Li (李念祖律師), Chairman, Arbitration Association of the ROC; Partner, Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law


1.Minn Naing Oo, Chief Executive Officer & Registrar, Singapore International Arbitration Center

       Med-Arb in Singapore

2.Michael Lee, Director, International Centre for Dispute Resolution-Singapore, International Division of American Arbitration Association

      ICDR Parallel Mediation: An Alternative Approach to Dispute Resolution

3.Gary Soo, Secretary-General, Hong Kong International Arbitration Center

       Hong Kong and Cross-Strait Commercial Disputes

4.Stephan Wilske, Doctor, Partner of Gleiss Lutz, Stuttgart office

      Crisis? What Crisis? – The Development of International Arbitration and Mediation in Tougher Times         

12:00- 13:00

Lunch Break

13:00- 15:10

Session II   Financial Crisis, Corporate Governance and Arbitration

           金融危機、公司治理與仲裁

Chairperson: K.C. Fan(范光群教授), General-Secretary, the Judicial Yuan, the Republic of China (former)


5.Lars Markert, Ph.D. Candidate, Associate of Gleiss Lutz (Stuttgart, Germany), International Arbitration Department

     Arbitrating in the Financial Crisis: Insolvency and Public Policy versus Arbitration and Party Autonomy – Which Law Governs?

6.Ding Jin (金鼎) , Associate of ACWH

      The Role of Arbitration in Corporate Governance

7.Tsai-Yu Lin (林彩瑜教授), Professor, Soochow University

     Following the ICSID Awards against Argentina Financial Crisis: Some Enforcement Issues

15:10-15:20

Coffee Break

15:20- 17:10

Session III  Arbitral Agreement, Enforcement and Expansion of Commercial Arbitration

外國仲裁判斷執行之法律問題

Chairperson: Dr. Pi-song Tsai (蔡碧松律師), Attorney-at-Law, Wong & Co. Law Offices


8.Chi Chung (鍾騏) , Assistant Research Fellow, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

     The Judicial Determination of the Validity of Arbitration Agreement in the People's Republic of China

9.Winnie Ma, Assistant Professor, Bond University Faculty of Law

     Harmonising Judicial Approaches to Determining the Enforceability of Annulled Awards

10.Chang-fa Lo (羅昌發教授), Chair/Lifetime Distinguish Prof. of Law, NTU

      The Legal and Practical Constraints of Using Commercial Arbitration to Handle Investment Dispute

11. Jeff Waincymer, Professor of International Trade Law at the Faculty of Law, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.          

Promoting Fairness and Efficiency in International Arbitration - Identifying a Uniform Model



Saturday, October 17, 2009

9:00- 12:00

Session IV Arbitration and International Investment & Trade

         仲裁與國際投資

Chairperson: Chang-fa Lo (羅昌發教授), Chair Professor/Lifetime Distinguished Professor, College of Law, National Taiwan University, Taiwan


12.Yasuhei Taniguchi, Professor of Law, Tokyo University (retired); former WTO Appellate Body Member and Chairperson 

      WTO Dispute Settlement as Arbitration

13.Nils Eliasson, Mannheimer Swartling’s Dispute Resolution Practice Group

      Investor-State Arbitration and Chinese Investors - Recent developments in light of the decision on jurisdiction in the case Mr. Tza Yap Shum v. The Republic of Peru

14.Kate Parlett, University of Cambridge, PhD in Law

Individual Rights in Investment Arbitration: Corn Syrup, Countermeasures and Clarity

12:00 -12:10

Concluding Remarks