8:30 - 9:00

Registration 

9:00 - 9:10

Opening Remarks

1.     Mr. Nigel N. T. Li (李念祖), Chairman, Chinese Arbitration Association, Taipei; Partner, Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law

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

9:10 – 12:10

Session I Regional Experience and Some Fundamental Issues in Arbitration

Chair: Nigel N. T. Li (李念祖), Chairman, Chinese Arbitration Association, Taipei; Partner, Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law

1.         Professor Winnie Ma (馬若梅), Assistant Professor, Bond University, Australia

Topic: Procedures for Challenging Arbitrators: Lessons for and from Taiwan

2.         Professor Chi-Chung Kao (高啟中), Associate Professor, Department of Law, Ming Chuan University School of Law, Taiwan

Topic: Statutory Arbitration in Taiwan - Is It Really Justifiable?

3.         Mr. Bruce Collins QC, Senior Counsel, Eleven Wentworth, Australia

Topic: Designing a Fair and Efficient Arbitration Using Existing International and Bespoke Protocols

4.         Dr. Hong-Lin Yu (俞鴻玲), Reader in Law, University of Stirling, the UK

Topic: Written Arbitration Agreements - What Written Arbitration Agreements?

12:10–13:00

Lunch Break

13:00 -14:30

Session II Investment Arbitration – General

Chair: Dr. Pi-Song Tsai (蔡碧松律師), Attorney-at-Law, Wong & Co. Law Offices, Taipei, Taiwan

5.         Dr. Stephan Wilske, Partner, Gleiss Lutz, Stuttgart office, Germany

Topic: Collective Action in Investment Arbitration to Enforce Small Claims – Justice to the Deprived or Death Knell for the System of Investor-State Arbitration

6.         Professor Chang-fa Lo (羅昌發), National Taiwan University and Judicial Yuan

Topic: Relations and Possible Interactions between State-State Dispute Settlement Mechanism and Investor-State Arbitration under Bilateral Investment Treaties

14:30- 14:40

Coffee Break

14:40- 16:10

Session III Investment Arbitration – in the Context of China

Chair: Professor Tsai-yu Lin (林彩瑜), Deputy Director, ACWH

7.         Professor Julian Ku (古舉倫), Professor of law, Hofstra Law School, U.S.A.

Topic: The Enforcement of Investment Arbitration Awards in the Courts of the People's Republic of China

8.         Professor Tong Qi (漆彤), Associate Professor, Wuhan University Institute of International Law, China

Topic: Never Wake a Sleeping Dragon - On the Jurisdiction Issue of the First ICSID Case against China

9.         Dr. Lars Markert, Associated Partner, Gleiss Lutz, Stuttgart office, Germany

Topic: Arbitration Under China’s BITs – Does it Really Work?

16:10- 18:00

Session IV Designing an International Framework for the Enforcement of Cross-Border Mediated Settlement Agreements

Chair: Professor Chang-fa Lo (羅昌發), National Taiwan University and Judicial Yuan

10.     The following Issues will be presented by Professor Laurence Boulle, Professor of Law, Bond University Faculty of Law, and

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

(1)  Existing practices and instruments relating to the international enforceability of mediated settlements

·        UNCITRAL Model Law on Conciliation (Professor Ma)

·        European Directive on Mediation (Professor Ma)

·        New York Convention - enforceability of mediated settlement agreements as arbitral awards (Professor Ma)

·        Other international instruments, e.g., ICSID (Professor Boulle)

(2)  Key definitional issues relevant to the international enforceability of mediated settlements (by Professor Boulle)

(3)  The main policy issues relating to the international enforceability of mediated settlements

·        Reasons for Model Law's reluctance to specify means of enforcement (Professor Ma)

·        Confidentiality (Professor Boulle)

·        Other policy issues (Professor Boulle)

18:00-18:10

Concluding Remarks for the First Day Session

Professor Tsai-yu Lin (林彩瑜), Deputy Director, ACWH

8:30 – 11:30

Session V Further Discussions on Designing an International Framework for the Enforcement of Cross-Border Mediated Settlement Agreements

Chair: Professor Chang-fa Lo (羅昌發), National Taiwan University and Judicial Yuan

     Nigel N. T. Li (李念祖), Chairman, Chinese Arbitration; Partner, Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law

There will be in-depth discussions on the designing of a possible international instrument or other approaches for the recognition of foreign mediation settlements and methods of achieving it based on the papers presented by Professor Laurence Boulle, Professor Winnie Ma (馬若梅):

(1)  The existing practices and instruments

(2)  Policy issues

(3)  Empirical study on the compliance rate of mediated settlement agreements

(4)  Possible methods and options: soft or hard codification or otherwise

(5)  Scope of possible instrument

(6)  Ways forward

11:30 –

Lunch