Day 1: August 30, 2014 (Saturday)

Time

Topics

Speakers

8:30-9:00

Registration

9:00-9:10

Opening Remarks

1.      Za Chieh Moh (莫若楫), Standing Director, The Chinese Arbitration Association, Taipei; Chairman of Board, MAA Group Consulting Engineers; Chairman, Chinese Taipei APEC Engineer Monitoring Committee

2.      Ming-yan Shieh (謝銘洋), Dean, NTU College of Law

Session 1

9:10-10:40

Fundamental Issues in Commercial Arbitration

Chair: Chang-fa Lo (羅昌發)

1.       

Multi Party Issues in International Arbitration

Mary Thomson, FCIArb FHKIArb

Barrister, Arbitrator, Adjudicator & Mediator

Associate Member, Stone Chambers London & Singapore

2.       

The Often Overlooked Problem of the Law Applicable to the Arbitration Agreement

Renato Nazzini, Professor, King’s College London

3.       

Comparative Analysis and Transnationalization of Domestic Rules in International Commercial Arbitration

Joanna Jemielniak, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

10:40-11:00

Tea Break and Group Photos

Session 2

11:00-12:30

Specific Issues in Commercial Arbitration

Chair: Pi-song Tsai (蔡碧松)

4.       

The Ailing Arbitrator

Stephan Wilske, Partner, Gleiss Lutz

5.       

Recent Developments in International Arbitration with a Particular Focus on Allocation of Costs

Annette Magnusson,Secretary General, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce

6.       

Is Control of Expert Evidence the Most Significant Challenge Facing the Next Generation of International Arbitrators?

Robert Horne, Partner at Trowers & Hamlins International Law Firm

12:30-13:40

Lunch Break

Session 3

13:40-16:10

Arbitration, Investment and Trade

Chair: Annette Magnusson

7.       

Possible Cross-Chapter Application and its Implication for Investment Arbitration under Free Trade Agreement

Tsai-yu Lin (林彩瑜), Professor, NTU College of Law and Director, ACWH

8.       

Alternative Access to Investor-State Arbitration for Taiwanese Corporate Investor against China via Treaty Shopping

Chi-Chung Kao (高啟中), Associate Professor, National Quemoy University

9.       

FTA to Promote Commercial Arbitration

Alex Lo (羅威遠), Associate Counsel, Singapore International Arbitration Center

10.    

Riot as an Indirect Expropriation: The Substantial Dispute Resolution Issues Caused by 2014 Vietnam Anti-China Riot under Taiwan – Vietnam BIT

Ray Yu-jui Chang (張育叡), Law Clerk for the Justice of the Constitutional Court

11.    

A Case Study on ICSID Jurisdictional Issues between Taiwan CPC Corporation and Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: Implications from Taiwan’s Ice-breaking ICSID Case

Cheng-kai Wang (王政凱), National Taiwan University/Lawyer, Dacheng Law Offices

16:10-16:20

Tea Break

Session 4

16:20-17:40

 Arbitration of corporate disputes: Germany, Japan, Taiwan and the United Kingdom

Chair: Stephan Wilske

12.  

Arbitrating Shareholder Disputes - Pertinent Issues and (German) Approaches

Lars Markert, Gleiss Lutz/Nishimura & Asahi

13.  

Possibility to Arbitrate the Disputes between Shareholders/Investors and Corporation in the Situation of Japan

Yoshihiro Yamada, Ritsumeikan University

14.  

The Role of Arbitration in Corporate/Shareholder Disputes in Taiwan

Christa Wei Chen (陳薇), National Taiwan University

15.  

Arbitration of Intra-Corporate Disputes in the United Kingdom: Problems of Harmonization

Joseph Lee, University of Exeter

Day 2: August 31 2014 (Sunday)

Session 5

09:00-11:00

Arbitration in national, regional and sectoral contexts

Chair: Renato Nazzini

16.    

Recent Developments of International Arbitration in Mainland China.

Fuyong Chen (陳福勇), Deputy Secretary-General, Beijing Arbitration Commission

17.    

Awakening or Asleep: China’s Role in International Investment Arbitration

QI Tong(漆彤), Professor of Law, Law School of Wuhan University, China

18.    

Australia as an Arbitration--‐Friendly Country: Can Parties have their Cake and Eat it too?

Louise Parsons, Assistant Professor and Director of Mooting at Bond University

Jack Leonard, LLB student, Bond University

19.    

Multi-tier Dispute Resolution Clauses under FIDIC Conditions of Contract - Dispute Board and Arbitration, Do They Help Each Other?

Toshihiko Omoto, Visiting Professor, Kyoto University

20.    

Sports Arbitration in Japan

Dai Yokomizo, Professor of Law, Nagoya University

11:00-11:10

Tea Break

11:10-12:10

Mediation – Global Enforcement of Mediated Settlements

Chair: Mary Thomson

21.    

Draft “Convention on the Cross Border Enforcement of International Mediated Settlement Agreements”

Chang-fa Lo (羅昌發), Constitutional Court Justice / NTU Law Professor

Winnie Ma (馬若梅), Adjunct Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Bond University, Australia

22.    

Nudging Users towards Cross-border Mediation:

Is it Really about Harmonised Enforcement Regulation?

Nadja Alexander, Professor of Conflict Resolution and Law

Hong Kong Shue Yan University

12:10-12:20

Concluding Remarks, by Tsai-yu Lin (林彩瑜), Director, ACWH