Professor Jure Vidmar delivered the closing keynote address of the 2024 London Summer Arbitration School on 21 June 2024. Professor Anna Petrig and Professor Yarik Kryvoi co-moderateed this event.
This keynote considered the patterns, strengths and pitfalls of arbitrating territorial disputes. It focused 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 was 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 also addressed those situations where a territorial dispute appeared in arbitral proceedings incidentally and/or as an ancillary question. It discussed how arbitral tribunals ensured (or not) that they stayed within the boundaries of their jurisdiction; how they applied the rules of public international law, and what could be done in arbitration where these rules are inconclusive.
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 event was hosted by Osborne Clarke.
