The Scottish Arbitration Centre has been shortlisted for two prestigious Global Arbitration Review Awards (GAR Awards). Two of the keynote speakers at the Centre’s Edinburgh International Arbitration Festival (ArbFest2024) have also been shortlisted for Best Speech Award.
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The Centre has been shortlisted for the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge Award and the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations Award.
The shortlisting for Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge Award is for the Centre having achieved gender parity in its arbitration panels (domestic and international). The full list of those shortlisted is below:
- LCIA launches new EDI Guidelines
- Scottish Arbitration Centre achieves gender parity in its arbitration panels
- HKIAC embraces diversity in new rules
- ERA Pledge release guidelines for the Bar of England & Wales
- the Arbitration fund for African Students deliver training to 400 students and set up ADR clubs in Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda
- Indian Women in International Arbitration launch a speaker bank
- Mayer Brown launches interview series features Ukrainian women in arbitration
- ICSID improves gender equality in appointments
- DIAC Arbitration Court appoints 54% women arbitrators in the first half of 2024 with the overall appointments of women increasing to 37%
- The India Promise launches to address the under-representation of Indian arbitrators
The shortlisting for the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations Award is for the launch of the Centre’s Greener Arbitration Policy. The full list of those shortlisted is below.
- Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) launches sustainability protocol
- The AAA-ICDR and the North America CGA Committee organise several green roundtables to promote efficiency and greener practices
- The Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation (CEPANI) launch Greener Arbitration Pledge and publishes draft sustainability commitments
- Pace University and the North America Committee of the CGA launch a writing competition about reducing environmental impact of international arbitration
- The Institutions Task Force of the CGA publishes its report
- The Scottish Arbitration Centre launches its Greener Arbitration Policy
- Arbitra International hosts annual Cycle to PAW
Craig Tevendale and Dr Ula Cartwright-Finch’s keynote speeches at the Edinburgh International Arbitration Festival (ArbFest2024) have been shortlisted for the GAR Award for Best Lecture or Speech.
In September 2024, the Centre held its second Edinburgh International Arbitration Festival, with themes being Confidentiality v Transparency in Arbitration and Arbitration and Psychology. Craig Tevendale, Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, was a keynote speaker and discussed confidentiality and transparency in arbitration. To read his speech see here. Dr Ula Cartwright-Finch, Founder and Managing Director of Cortex Capital, introduced and discussed the theme on Psychology in Arbitration. To read her keynote speech see here. The full list of those shortlisted is below:
- Martina Polasek – Reflections on the Past and Future Significance of ICSID’s First 1000 Cases – EFILA lecture
- Mohamed Abdel Wahab – Iura Novit Arbiter: A Practicum – Beyond Cultural Considerations and Legal Desperation – the 39th Freshfields Lecture
- Meg Kinnear – Procedural Good Faith in Investment Arbitration – What Is It And What Could It Be? – the 20th American University Washington College of Law Lecture
- Claudia Salomon – Guardian, Gatekeeper or Guide? – Alexander Lecture
- Emilia Onyema – Access to Arbitral Justice for Local Communities – Roebuck Lecture
- Craig Tevendale – Confidentiality versus Transparency: Reconcilable Differences? – ArbFest keynote
- Patricia Nacimiento – The Next Decade in Arbitration – GAR Live Vienna keynote
- Dame Elizabeth Gloster – Arbitration: What’s Not to Like? – Akin Lecture
- Philippa Webb – Double Waiver of Immunity and Ripple Effects – NUS and 3VB Lecture
- Stavros Brekoulakis – Impartiality and the Construction of Trust in ISDS – Maxwell Lecture
- Julian Lew KC – The Effect of Corruption on International Arbitration Tribunals – Berthold Goldman Lecture
- Alexis Mourre – Climate Change Considerations in Investment Arbitration – Azerbaijan Arbitration Days keynote
- Lord Wolfson KC – Smoke Signals of London’s Challenges as a Seat – LIDW keynote
- Alain Pellet –The Seven Deadly Sins of International Investment Disputes – McNair Lecture
- Ula Cartwright-Finch – On International Arbitration and Psychology – ArbFest keynote
We are delighted that GAR has shortlisted the Scottish Arbitration Centre for two GAR awards, the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge Award and the Campaign for Greener Arbitration Award. It is positive to see such recognition for the Centre’s efforts in achieving and maintaining gender parity in our arbitration panels and for our approach to more sustainable arbitration with our Greener Arbitration Policy. It is also good to see GAR shortlisting two of our ArbFest2024 keynote speakers, Craig Tevendale and Dr Ula Cartwright-Finch, for the Best Speech Award.