Legitimacy: myths, realities, challenges

In: ICCA congress series 18

Abstract

Opening Plenary Session Setting The Scene: What Are the Myths? What Are the Realities? What Are the Challenges? --Opening Plenary Session Arbitration and Decision-Making: Live Empirical Study --A. Precision Stream A.1 Proof: A Plea for Precision --A. Precision Stream A.2 Early Stages of the Arbitral Process: Interim Measures and Document Production --A. Precision Stream A.3 Matters of Evidence: Witness and Experts --A. Precision Stream A.4 Treaty Arbitration: Pleading and Proof of Fraud and Comparable Forms of Abuse --B. Justice Stream B.1 Who Are the Arbitrators? --B. Justice Stream B.2 Premise: Arbitral Institutions Can Do More to Further Legitimacy. True or False? --B. Justice Stream B.3 Treaty Arbitration: Is the Playing Field Level and Who Decides Whether It Is Anyway? --B. Justice Stream B.4 Universal Arbitration: An Aspiration Within Reach or a Sisyphean Goal? --Plenary Session: Spotlight on International Arbitration in Miami and the United States --Breakout Sessions on Arbitral Legitimacy: The Users' and Judges' Perspectives --Lunch Seminar: Latin America: Hottest Issues, Country by Country --Lunch Seminar: Power of Arbitration to Fill Gaps in the Arbitration Agreement and Underlying Contract --Closing Plenary Legitimacy: Examined Against Empirical Data --Closing Plenary Where We Have Been, Where We Should Go.