Luxembourg Arbitration Day 2021: 30 june 2021

22/06/2021

Date & Time: 30 June 2021, 10:00-18:00

Venue: Chambre de Commerce, 7 r. Alcide de Gasperi, L-1615 Luxembourg- Kirchberg

Luxembourg Arbitration Association (LAA) is pleased to present the second edition of Luxembourg Arbitration Day (Hybrid Event) for Luxembourg and international lawyers, up and coming practitioners, academics, and in-house counsel who are willing to further enrich their arbitration related knowledge and skills.

PROGRAMME

10:00 : Registration with light refreshments

PART I : TRAINING

10:15 – 10:30 : Welcome address: André Prüm, President of LAA / Estelle Brisson, Promotion & Communication of LAA
10 :30 – 12 :00 : Cross-examination training (Part 1)
Topics include:

Guidelines, tactics, advice on the fundamentals of cross-examination
Differences between the cross-examination of fact witnesses and
expert witnesses
Handling witness statements
Instructors:
- Hilary Heilbron QC, Brick Court Chambers, London
- Klaus Reichert SC, Brick Court Chambers, London

12 :00 – 13 :00 Lunch

13 :00 – 14 :30 : Cross-examination training (Part 2)

14:30 – 14:45 : Refreshment Break

PART II : CONFERENCE

14 :45 -15 :00 : Opening remarks

Luc Frieden, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Luxembourg
Sam Tanson, Luxembourg Minister for Justice

15 :00-16 :15 : Session I : Investment protection in times of climate change: the future of the Energy Charter Treaty
Topics include:

Climate change and the ECT’s modernization agenda
Investment protection against the States’ right to regulate the energy
sector
Investor-State dispute settlement: a challenge to the EU constitutional
framework?

Panelists :

Jonas Hallberg, Legal Advisor at the National Board of Trade, Sweden
Patricia Nacimiento, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills, Frankfurt
Eleftheria Neframi, Professor at the University of Luxembourg
Ilija Mitrev Penushliski, Counsel, Three Crowns, Paris

Moderators :

Paschalis Paschalidis, Counsel, Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya
Disputes, Paris
André Prüm, Professor at the University of Luxembourg

16:15 – 16:45 : Refreshment Break

16:45 – 18:00 : Session II : Arbitration and Sovereign States
Topics include:

Sovereign States’ right to regulate: recent arbitration cases
Enforcement against Sovereign States and setting aside proceedings
involving Sovereign States: latest developments
Can ADR be an efficient means to solve disputes with Sovereign
States?

Panelists: