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Young Scholars Workshop Webinar 3: Challenges and Opportunities in International Dispute Settlement Mechanism

6 August 2021
2.30pm – 4.00pm AEST
Online via MS Teams
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Young Scholars Workshop Webinar 3: Challenges and Opportunities in International Dispute Settlement Mechanism

International dispute settlement mechanism is experiencing unprecedented challenges and a legitimacy crisis. Efforts for reform have been made by various stakeholders to respond to the public criticism. What are the challenges and opportunities in the international dispute settlement mechanism? This panel discusses a number controversial issues facing international dispute settlement mechanism, from the Covid-19 crisis and investment contracts under the ICSID Convention, to human rights issues arising out of investment treaty arbitration, from corruption and bribery occurring between investors and public officials of host states, to the applicability of New York Convention to investment treaty arbitration awards. It will also explore some of the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) reform options, such as dispute prevention mechanisms in ISDS and its implications for legal pluralism. 

Speakers
Associate Professor Kun Fan

Associate Professor Kun Fan

Member, UNSW China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre

Kun Fan is Associate Professor of UNSW Law and Justice's China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre. She was named Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Scholar in Arbitration & Commercial Law in 2017 and received numerous awards in recognition of her academic contribution. She held academic positions at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and was also a Visiting Scholar of the Harvard Yenching Institute (2012-2013) and a Visiting Scholar at Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy (SIDRA) (2023). She also has extensive experience in ADR practice, having worked as counsel, legal expert, secretary for the arbitration tribunal, arbitrator and domain names panelist, and deputy counsel at the ICC International Court of Arbitration. She is called to the New York Bar, an Academic Council Member of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration, a Domain Names Panelist of the HKIAC and the ADNDRC, an Accredited Mediator of the HKMAAL, and an Arbitrator of a number of arbitration institutions.