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Basel Winter Arbitration School

The next edition of the Basel Winter Arbitration School will take place on 5-10 February 2023 (TBC). If you want to be notified when it will be possible to apply, please complete this form. Please also follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

The Basel Winter Arbitration School took place on 6-11 February 2022 at the Law Faculty of the University of Basel in Switzerland. It was also be possible to attend the school in an online format.

The University of Basel, founded in 1460, is the oldest university in Switzerland. The school will feature prominent arbitration practitioners and academics covering different types of public, private and hybrid arbitration topics, and will include speakers from international arbitration institutions headquartered in Switzerland and other countries.

The school featured an interactive six-day programme introducing participants to different types of public, private and hybrid arbitration and related practice development and career opportunities. Young practitioners and graduate students working in the field of dispute resolution will particularly benefit from this programme.

Download the Basel Winter Arbitration School brochure with bios of confirmed faculty members the programme.

Faculty

Prof. Dr. iur. Anna Petrig, LL.M. (Harvard)

Chair of International Law and Public Law at the University of Basel

Prof. Dr. Yarik Kryvoi, LL.M. (Harvard)

Senior Fellow in International Economic Law and Director of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (London)

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Anne Peters, LL.M. (Harvard)

Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg

Judge Liesbeth Lijnzaad, LL.M. (Amsterdam)

Judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Hamburg) and Professor of Practice of International Law (Maastricht)

Martin Doe, BCL (McGill)

Senior Legal Counsel at Permanent Court of Arbitration (the Hague)

Ignacio de Castro, LL.M. (King's College London)

Director of IP Disputes and External Relations Division, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre (Geneva)

Dr. Veijo Heiskanen, LL.M. (Harvard)

Partner at LALIVE and international arbitrator (Geneva)

Dr. iur Christopher Boog, FCIArb, FSIArb

Partner, Vice-Chair of the International Arbitration Practice Group and co-head the Sports Practice at Schellenberg Wittmer (Singapore and Zurich)

Dr. iur Dražen Petrović, LL.M. (EUI Florence)

Registrar of the ILO Administrative Tribunal (Geneva)

Prof. Dr. iur August Reinisch, LL.M. (NYU)

Professor of International and European Law at the University of Vienna & member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations

Jiries Saadeh, LL.M. (Leiden)

Partner at Fietta and Deputy District Judge.

Key features

The Winter School curriculum includes classes on:

The conceptual foundations of international adjudication
History of international arbitration
Diversity in arbitration
State-State institutional adjudication
UNCLOS arbitration
Business and human rights arbitration (the Hague rules)
Investor-State arbitration
International commercial arbitration
Arbitration and mediation at the World Intellectual Property Organisation
Arbitration in sports
Human rights at sea arbitration initiative
Oral and written skills in arbitration
Panel discussion with practitioners: careers in international arbitration

Key benefits of participation

Learning at the Winter School will involve:

acquiring theoretical and practical arbitration skills in various fields
gaining knowledge on key transversal topics
networking opportunities with top academics, practitioners and international civil servants
better understanding of various career paths in international arbitration
exposure to novel teaching methods and a collection of teaching materials
certificate of attendance.

Venue

Those attending the Basel Winter Arbitration School in person will gather in Basel, Switzerland, a city on the river Rhine and within a relatively short reach to the Alps mountains.

It was in Basel in 1869 when one of the world’s first commercial arbitration rules were published by the Basel Chamber of Commerce (as it was known back then). Basel is an intercultural city, the 3rd largest in Switzerland, situated on the crossing of Switzerland, France and Germany. It has its own airport and connected to major international railway connections. Switzerland is regarded as Europe’s most innovative economy, host to many major multinational companies and host state of numerous intergovernmental organisations and international actors.

The Winter School participants will benefit from being in Switzerland by engaging with representatives of Swiss-based institutions such as the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre, ILO Administrative Tribunal as well as practitioners and academics from Switzerland and other countries. Its mountains, lakes as well as architecture and traditions make Switzerland a major tourist hub. The organisers will also give recommendations on the local cultural attracts and a skiing trip to the Alps after the Winter School programme.

For those who cannot attend the school in person in Switzerland, it is possible to attend the school in an online format. The online participation involves full participation in all classes via the Zoom format, with the possibility of asking questions and access to all course materials.

Programme and application procedure

Read Basel Winter Arbitration School brochure with full bios of confirmed faculty members. For any additional information please contact info@arbitrationlab.com

The next edition of the Basel Winter Arbitration School will take place in February 2023. If you want to be notified when it will be possible to apply, please complete this form. Please also follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

If you are intered in joining our forthcoming London Summer Arbitration School, please read more here.