On 28 November, NERA Senior Managing Director Dr. Chris Dippon will speak at Washington Arbitration Week (WAW) 2023 in a session titled “International Investment Treaties and Provisions Sensitive to Climate Change, and the Technology Revolution: A Close Look at Aerospace, Seabed Mining Disputes, and the Environment.” Dr. Dippon will be joined by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Associate Attorney Maria L. Banda, Xtrategy LLP Founding Partner José Antonio Rivas, Steptoe & Johnson Associate Chloe Baldwin, Twenty Essex Barrister Mahnaz Malik, and University of Geneva Professor Makane Moïse Mbengue.  

In a separate session on 30 November, NERA Senior Managing Director Julie M. Carey will speak in the session “Alternative Approaches to Valuing Damages in Investor-State Arbitration” alongside Jones Day Partner Melissa Stear Gorsline and Independent Arbitrator Mark Kantor.

WAW provides an organic international arbitration forum for its legal community and the international and foreign community connected to it. The event will advance the analysis and discussion of developments reflected in arbitral awards, treaties, and international instruments at the forefront of international arbitration. Each panel will follow a dynamic format to foster open discussions about the future of international arbitration. Panelists will shed light on new arbitration techniques, focus on developments and evolving interpretations and views, and discuss the best practices for international arbitration in the new virtual reality.