Board of Directors of the AAA/ICDR and NYU School of Law Conference:
EXPLORING CRITICAL ISSUES IN ARBITRATION
NYU SCHOOL OF LAW,
40 WASHINGTON SQUARE SOUTH,
NEW YORK, NY 10012
MAY 6TH, 2016
The Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association and NYU School of Law invite you to join us and a distinguished group of dispute resolution, business and academic professionals who will examine some of the critical issues attendant to providing access to justice in the domestic and international contexts.
Conference Agenda
| 9:00–9:15 AM | WELCOME REMARKS AND HONORING HON. JUDITH KAYE | JOHN J. KERR, JR., Chair, Board of Directors, American Arbitration Association, Moderator INDIA JOHNSON, President and CEO, American Arbitration Association |
| 9:15–10:15 AM | THE EFFECT AND IMPLICATIONS OF THIRD-PARTY FUNDING | JOHN J. KERR, JR., Chair, Board of Directors, American Arbitration Association, Moderator JAMES H. CARTER, Senior Counsel, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP SELVYN SEIDEL, Founder and Chair, Fulbrook Capital Management, LLC MAYA STEINITZ, Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law |
| 10:15–11:15 AM | RESOLVING MASS CLAIMS THROUGH ADR SYSTEMS—THE UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION | TIMOTHY FEIGHERY, Partner, Arent Fox LLP DEBORAH HENSLER, Judge John W. Ford Professor of Dispute Resolution, Stanford University FRANCIS MCGOVERN, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law |
| 11:15–11:30 AM | BREAK | |
| 11:30 AM–12:30 PM | THE FAIRNESS IMPERATIVE AND PRO SE PARTIES | REGINALD A. HOLMES, President and CEO, The Holmes Law Firm HAROLD H. KOH, Sterling Professor of International Law,Yale Law School HON. TIMOTHY LEWIS, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLP |
| 12:30–1:15 PM | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 1:15–2:30 PM | CLASS ACTION LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION…WHAT REFORMS ARE NEEDED? | JOHN M. TOWNSEND, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, Moderator DEEPAK GUPTA, Founding Principal, Gupta Wessler PLLC HON. FAITH HOCHBERG, Former United States Federal Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey ANDREW PINKUS, Partner, Mayer Brown |
| 2:30–2:45 PM | BREAK | |
| 2:45–3:45 PM | ACCESS TO JUSTICE AFTER THE ARBITRAL AWARD | JOSÉ ALVAREZ, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law, NYU School of Law FRANCO FERRARI, Professor of Law, NYU School of Law, Director, Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law BRIAN KING, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LINDA SILBERMAN, Martin Lipton Professor of Law, Co-Director, Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and CommercialLaw, NYU School of Law |
| 3:45 PM | CONFERENCE CONCLUDES |
