Paper Presentation: “The Institutional Evolution of the Investor-State Arbitration Regime: Judicialization and Governance,” by Alec Stone Sweet, YLS Leitner Professor of International Law, Politics and International Studies; with discussants Florian Grisel LLM ’10, Associate, Dechert LLP, Paris; Andrew T. Guzman, Professor of Law and Associate Dean, International and Graduate Programs, Berkeley Law School, University of California; and Anthea Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Law, London School of Economics
Paper Presentation: “Commercial Arbitration Agreements Among Sophisticated Parties: An Empirical View,” by Sarath Sanga ‘14, Yale Law School, and Richard Brooks, YLS Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law; with discussants Erin O’Hara O’Connor, Milton R. Underwood Professor of Law and Director of Graduate Studies, Law and Economics PhD Program, Vanderbilt University; Jennifer Tobin, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University Public Policy Institute; and Anne Marie Whitesell, Of Counsel, Dechert LLP
Paper Presentation: “The Potential Value of ‘Menu’ and ‘More Reasonable Offer’ Arbitration,” by Ian Ayres ‘86, YLS William K. Townsend Professor of Law; with discussants James F. Ring, CEO, Fair Outcomes, Inc.; Andrew Verstein ‘09, John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Executive Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law; Abraham Wickelgren, Bernard J. Ward Centennial Professor in Law, University of Texas at Austin School of Law; and Florence Rogatz, YLS Visiting Professor of Law
Paper Presentation: “Four Means of Assurance for Trade: Self-Governance, Reputation Entrepreneurs, Courts and Arbitrators,” by Bruno Deffains, Professor of Economics, University Paris 2 Panthéon Assas and Richard Brooks, YLS Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law; with discussants Avinash K. Dixit, John J. F. Sherrerd ‘52 University Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Princeton University; Henry B. Hansmann ‘74, YLS Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law; and Susan Rose-Ackerman, YLS Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence
Panel Discussion: “Reports on the Restatement, Third, of International Commercial Arbitration,” with panelists George A. Bermann, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law and Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law; Alan S. Rau, Mark G. and Judy G. Yudof Chair in Law, University of Texas at Austin School of Law; and Catherine Rogers, Paul and Marjorie Price Faculty Scholar, Professor of Law, Penn State School of Law