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Sophie Nappert is an arbitrator in independent practice, based in London. She is dual-qualified as an Avocat of the Bar of Quebec, Canada and as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. Before becoming a full-time arbitrator, she pursued a career as an advocate and was Head of International Arbitration at a global law firm. She is commended as “most highly regarded” and a “leading light” in her field by Who’s Who Legal. Sophie is highly sought-after in complex energy, investment and natural resources disputes. Sophie is trained and has practised in both civil law and common law jurisdictions. She holds degrees in both common law and civil law from McGill University and a master’s degree in law from King’s College London. For over a decade she served as the peer-nominated Moderator of OGEMID, the online discussion forum on current issues of international investment law, economic law and arbitration. Since 2019, she co-chairs the ICC Task Force on Allegations of Corruption in International Arbitration, the largest ICC Task Force to date. Sophie is a pioneering practitioner at the intersection of arbitration and Legal Tech. In 2019, she completed the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School Programme on Blockchain Strategy. In 2021, she co-founded ArbTech, a knowledge-sharing platform fostering cross-disciplinary dialogue on technology, dispute resolution and the future of justice. In its first year of existence, ArbTech was shortlisted at the 2022 GAR Awards. Sophie is the author of a Commentary on the 2010 UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. She is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars on issues of international arbitration, international investment law and dispute resolution. She is a guest lecturer at Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School and McGill University Faculty of Law. She created the Nappert Prize in International Arbitration, open to young scholars and practitioners worldwide, administered under the auspices of McGill University.

The keynote will examine the ways in which the arbitral process might adapt to be relevant to the values of the Web3 economy, and notably by taking a fresh look at due process. As ways of doing business evolve, as new types of commercial transactions emerge, so the nature of the disputes arising out of these transactions changes, as does the vector for their resolution. Just as commercial arbitration historically flourished because industry-specific disputes demanded decision-makers who were knowledgeable in the given industry and respected by their peers, so the current reality of e-commerce is giving rise to a new breed of cross-border, high-volume, low-value, one-shot disputes. The resolution of such disputes through traditional processes are ill-suited, premised as they are on due process measures that are time-reliant. This increasingly dominant voice in the marketplace prompts the question whether a less time-consuming approach to arbitration’s traditional reliance on due process, leveraging technological tools, might constitute an acceptable trade-off to elicit a speedier, consensus-based, cheaper decision, thereby delivering more satisfaction to e-commerce users, and thus garnering more trust.

All online participants are requested to register in advance for the opening lecture under the following link.

Prof. Dr. Jure Vidmar

Prof. Dr. Jure Vidmar is Chair of Public International Law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He is also a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Member of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration in Geneva, and is appointed by the European Commission to the List of Candidates Suitable for Appointment as Arbitrators and Trade and Sustainable Development Experts in Bilateral Disputes under Trade Agreements with Third Countries. He has also served as Judge ad hoc of the European Court of Human Rights.

This keynote will consider the patterns, strengths and pitfalls of arbitrating territorial disputes. It will focus on two main issues: how international arbitration is used as a method of peaceful settlement of territorial disputes; and how arbitral tribunals address territorial disputes when settling other disputes (e.g. in investment arbitration). In the context of the use of arbitration as a means of peaceful settlement of territorial disputes, particular attention will be paid to jurisdiction of arbitral tribunals, participation of states and non-states in the proceedings, the choice of law and the problem of enforcement. The lecture will also address those situations where a territorial dispute appears in arbitral proceedings incidentally and/or as an ancillary question. It will discuss how arbitral tribunals ensure (or not) that they stay within the boundaries of their jurisdiction; how they apply the rules of public international law, and what can be done in arbitration where these rules are inconclusive.

All online participants are requested to register in advance for the keynote lecture under the following link.