Past Events

The United States and its place in the International Arbitration system of the 21st century

April 15-17, 2012; Atlanta, Georgia

Speakers

Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez, Partner, King & Spalding, New York, NY
Essam Al Tamimi, Senior Partner, Al Tamimi & Company, Dubai
Jose Astigarraga, Partner, Astigarraga Davis, Miami, FL
Hon. Dorothy Toth Beasley, Henning Mediation & Arbitration Service, Inc.; Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia (ret.), Atlanta, GA
John Beechey, Chairman, International Court of Arbitration, ICC, Paris, France
George A. Bermann, Professor of Law, Columbia University; Chief Reporter; ALI Restatement Third of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration, New York, NY
Hon. Stanley F. Birch, JAMS; Judge, 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (ret.), Atlanta, GA
Lorraine M. Brennan, Managing Director, JAMS International, London, England
Charles H. Brower II, Professor of Law, University of Mississippi School of Law, Oxford, MS
A. Stephens Clay, Partner, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Atlanta, GA
F. Ramsey Coates, Director (and former Senior Vice President & General Counsel), Westinghouse Electric Co., Monroeville, Pennsylvania
Jack J. Coe Jr., Professor of Law, Pepperdine, Law School; Associate Reporter, ALI Restatement Third of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration, Malibu, CA
Christopher R. Drahazol, Professor of Law, University of Kansas Law School; Associate Reporter, ALI Restatement Third of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration, Lawrence, KS
Jeffrey P. Elkinson, President, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Partner, Conyers Dill & Pearman, Bermuda
Philip W. “Whit” Engle, Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, Prenova, Inc., Atlanta, GA
Jeffrey D. Firestone, Vice-President/Litigation Counsel, United Parcel Service, Atlanta, GA
John H. Fleming, Partner, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, GA
Judith Gill QC, Partner, Allen & Overy, London, England
Joan C. Grafstein, JAMS, Atlanta, GA
Bernard “Ben” J. Greer, Adjunct Professor, Georgia State University; Partner, Alston & Bird LLP (ret.), Atlanta, GA
Shelby R. Grubbs, Partner, Miller & Martin PLLC, Atlanta, GA
Glenn P. Hendrix, Partner, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Atlanta, GA
John W. Hinchey, JAMS, Atlanta, GA
Hon. Carol W. Hunstein, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Yu Jianlong, Secretary-General, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Beijing, China
Meg Kinnear, Secretary-General, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, Washington DC
Jennifer Kirby, Partner, Kirby, Paris, France
Marielle Koppenol-Laforce, Partner, Houthoff Buruma, Rotterdam, and Professor of International Commercial Contracting, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Carolyn B. Lamm, Partner, White & Case, Washington DC
Barton Legum, Partner, Salans, Paris, France
Meghan Magruder, Partner, King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA
William W. “Rusty” Park, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law; President, London Court of International Arbitration, Boston, MA
Nikolaus Pitkowitz, Partner, Graf & Pitkowitz, Vienna, Austria
Matthew D. Richardson, Partner, Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, GA
Catherine A. Rogers, Professor of Law, Penn State University Dickinson School of Law; Associate Reporter, ALI Restatement Third of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration, University Park, PA
Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, The Home Depot, Atlanta, GA
Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge, Professor of Law, University of Georgia Law School, Athens, GA
Hon. Kasim Reed, Mayor of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Valerie Strong Sanders, Counsel, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, GA
Richard N. Sheinis, Partner, Hall Booth Smith & Slover, PC, Atlanta, GA
John A. Sherrill, Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Atlanta, GA
Christof Siefarth, Partner, GÖRG, Cologne, Germany
Richard H. Sinkfield, Partner, Rogers & Hardin, LLP, Atlanta, GA
William K. Slate II, President, American Arbitration Association, Washington DC
Thomas J. Stipanowich, Professor of Law, Pepperdine Law School, Malibu, CA
Edna Sussman, Principal, Sussman ADR LLC, New York, NY
Anthony C. “Tony” Walsh, Senior Litigation Counsel, GE Energy, Atlanta, GA
John L. Watkins, Partner, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Atlanta, GA
Brian A. White, Partner, King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA
Douglas H. Yarn, Professor of Law, Georgia State University Law School, Atlanta, GA
Eduardo Zuleta, Partner, Gomez-Pinzon-Zuleta, Bogotá, Colombia