Dear Members
summer has started and before you enjoy your well deserved vacation we want to draw your attention to the following events:
1. Dreiländerkonferenz
This year's Dreiländerkonferenz will be hosted in Vienna. After a get together at
Gustl kocht on 20 September 2018, the conference will take place at the
Park Hyatt Vienna on
21 September 2018.
Following tradition topics will be discussed from the perspectives of Austrian, Liechtenstein and Swiss arbitration law. Click
here for a more detailed program.
Registration is now open use this
link to register.
Please note that the conference will be held in German.
2. GAR Live Vienna
After a hugely successful event last year, the 2nd annual GAR Live Vienna will take place on
19 October 2018.
The event will be co-chaired by
Stefan Riegler (Arb|Aut),
Alice Fremuth-Wolf (VIAC) and
Eliane Fischer (YAAP) with a
lunch-time keynote held by
Jörg Risse on “
Poetic Prophecy: The Future of Arbitration”.
The programme consists of the following 4 sessions:
Session 1 will deal with Settlement in Arbitration
Session 2 is Question time on third party funding; and M&A disputes
S
ession 3 will deal with the future of investment arbitration
Session 4 is the famous GAR Live debate on the following motion: “This house believes, in all but exceptional cases, document production is a complete waste of time"
Following the event a
Lifetime award will be presented to
Prof Eric Bergsten with a laudatio held by Daniel Girsberger and Stavros Brekoulakis.
For further information visit
http://gar.live/vienna2018.
3. Austrian Arbitration Academy
On 14 July 2018 Austrian Arbitration Academy started its
summer program.
Arb|Aut is proud to announce that this year's
Arb|Aut scholarship was awarded to
Nguyen Gia Thien Le - an excellent Vietnamese law student currently working on his PhD at the University of Osnabrück.
We hope Nguyen Gia Thien Le and all other participants of the Summer School had a a successful and enjoyable time in Strobl.
Kind regards,
Johannes Hock
(Arb|Aut President)