Annual MIDS Opening Lecture - The MIDS Lecture 2011

The Geneva LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) will host its annual Opening Lecture, to be delivered by Professor W. Michael Reisman* of the Yale Law School, on Thursday 29 September 2011. Professor Reisman will speak about:

"The Diversity of Contemporary International Arbitration: Functions and Policies".

The lecture will start at 6.45pm and will take place at the University of Geneva Law Faculty (UniMail, 40, Boulevard du Pont d'Arve, CH-1205 Geneva), in Auditorium S150. To register, please send a message to Ms Antonella Ghio (Antonella.Ghio@graduateinstitute.ch) by 21 September. (Admission is free but registration is requested.)

*Professor Michael Reisman is Myres S. McDougal Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, where he has been on the faculty since 1965. He has been a visiting professor in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Berlin, Basel, Paris, and Geneva. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and a former member of its Executive Council. He is the President of the Arbitration Tribunal of the Bank for International Settlements and a member of the Institut de Droit International. He has served as arbitrator and counsel in many international cases and was Vice-President and then President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States and Vice-President and Honorary Vice-President of the American Society of International Law, and was co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law.

MIDS Lecture by Judge Bruno Simma

The Geneva Master in International Dispute Settlement will host a public lecture by Judge Bruno Simma* on Tuesday 15 March 2011. Judge Simma will speak about "The International Court of Justice and Human Rights: Community Interest Coming to Life?". The Lecture will start at 6:45pm and will take place at Geneva University Law Faculty, 40 bd du Pont d'Arve, UniMail, Room S160. To register, please send a message to Ms Antonella Ghio (Antonella.Ghio@graduateinstitute.ch) by 8 March. (Admission is free but registration is requested.) *Judge Bruno Simma has been a judge on the International Court of Justice since 2003. He was a professor of international law from 1973-2003 at the University of Munich, a Member of the United Nations International Law Commission (1996-2003), co-founder and first President of the European Society of International Law (2004-2007), and co-founder and co-editor of the European Journal of International Law. *** We would like to acknowledge the assistance of our media partner for this lecture: Transnational Dispute Management. Transnational Dispute Management (TDM, ISSN 1875-4120) is a comprehensive and innovative information service on the management of international disputes, with a focus on the rapidly evolving area of investment arbitration, but also in other significant areas of international investment (such as oil, gas, energy, infrastructure, mining, utilities etc). It deals both with formal adjudicatory procedures (mainly investment and commercial arbitration), but also mediation/ADR methods, negotiation and managerial ways to manage transnational disputes efficiently. See www.transnational-dispute-management.com for more information.

Postdoc in international arbitration sought in Geneva

MIDS Lecture by Professor George A. Bermann

The MIDS will be hosting a public lecture by Professor George A. Bermann* on Wednesday 1 December 2010. Professor Bermann will speak about the Restatement on International Commercial Arbitration, put in the context of the general evolution of international arbitration during the last decades. * George A. Bermann is Walter Gellhorn Professor and Jean Monnet Professor at Columbia Law School, chief reporter of the Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration for the American Law Institute, the first project of its kind in the field of arbitration. He also is on the faculty of the MIDS. Watch video of Prof. Bermann's lecture *** We would like to acknowledge the assistance of our media partner for this lecture: Transnational Dispute Management. Transnational Dispute Management (TDM, ISSN 1875-4120) is a comprehensive and innovative information service on the management of international disputes, with a focus on the rapidly evolving area of investment arbitration, but also in other significant areas of international investment (such as oil, gas, energy, infrastructure, mining, utilities etc). It deals both with formal adjudicatory procedures (mainly investment and commercial arbitration), but also mediation/ADR methods, negotiation and managerial ways to manage transnational disputes efficiently. See www.transnational-dispute-management.com for more information.

Brochure for 2011-12

The new brochure for the academic year 2011-12 is now available.

To order hard copies - which we are of course happy to provide for free - please email Ms Antonella Ghio: antonella.ghio -at- graduateinstitute.ch.

Annual MIDS Opening Lecture - The MIDS Lecture 2010

MIDS Lecture 2010: 29 September 2010 "Arbitration in Autumn", by Professor William W. Park, Professor of Law at Boston University, President of the London Court of International Arbitration, General Editor of Arbitration International, Designee of the USA to the Panel of Arbitrators of the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes, Member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration Time: 18:30 Venue: The Graduate Institute of International and Developement Studies, 132 rue de Lausanne in Geneva, Auditorium Jean Freymond Professor Park will explore the ripening of business arbitration through efforts to balance key adjudicatory goals such as due process, accurate decision-making and award enforceability. As a prism through which to separate the various themes inherent in these competing procedural objectives, the lecture will examine several controverted arbitrations, including the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Stolt-Nielsen which in April restricted an arbitrator's right to consolidate proceedings. In decorticating the reasoning in these cases, Park hopes to trigger debate on how the maturing of arbitration, borne of procedural seeds sown in earlier decades, implicates a complex interaction between the arbitral tribunal's specific duties and the broader legal framework for private dispute resolution. Watch video of Prof. Park's lecture

MIDS Team qualifies for finals in WTO Moot Court Competition

The team of the MIDS competing in the ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition has qualified for the world final round, to be held from 24 to 30 May 2010 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Our team ranked among the four best teams in a very intense regional competition in Helsinki. While most other teams have four members, we achieved these results with a team of only two students - Pietro Acerbi and Leonila Guglya. The team is coached by Dr Makane Moïse Mbengue, one of the staff lecturers of the MIDS. We wish them good luck for the finals!

MIDS Lecture by ICJ Judge Mohamed Bennouna

MIDS Lecture on 10 November 2009 "International Justice and Politics", by Judge Mohamed Bennouna, Judge at the International Court of Justice Time: 18:30 Venue: The Graduate Institute of International and Developement Studies, 132 rue de Lausanne in Geneva, Auditorium Jean Freymond or room S1. Registrations: free, but places are limited. Please register with antonella.ghio (at) graduateinstitute.ch Download Poster for MIDS Lecture by Judge Bennouna

Applications open for the 2010-11 program

Application for the 2010-11 program open today, 15 October, and will close on 1 February 2010 (late applications can be taken into consideration, as and if places remain or become available through cancellation or other). All relevant information is available on our admission page.

The Journal of International Dispute Settlement (JIDS)

The Geneva MIDS is proud of its association with the new Journal of International Dispute Settlement (JIDS), which has its home at Geneva Law School and the Graduate Institute in Geneva. The journal, published biannually by Oxford University Press, focuses on fundamental reflections on international dispute settlement. Led by the MIDS' Executive Director, Thomas Schultz, in association with Tom Grant of Cambridge University and Andrew Mitchell of Melbourne Law School, it is placed under the patronage of the Director of the MIDS, Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, and of Joost Pauwelyn. Its first volume will include the Inaugural MIDS Lecture by James Crawford in October 2008 and the Opening Lecture delivered in September 2009 by Emmanuel Gaillard.

Brochure for 2010-11

The new brochure for the academic year 2010-11 is now available.

To order hard copies - which we are of course happy to provide for free - please email Ms Antonella Ghio: antonella.ghio -at- graduateinstitute.ch.

Annual Report for 2008-09

We are very happy to release the Annual Report of the Geneva MIDS for the academic year 2008-2009.

The report recaps the students' main activities and captures some of the year's highlights. It also presents the current program for 2009-10, and outlines the main developments that we have implemented for 2010-11.

We are particularly proud of three things at this stage, just a year after the program launched:

• a very high satisfaction rate among students,
• an excellent recognition of the value of our graduates on the very tense professional legal market,
• and a growth of our student body by almost 50 per cent between the first and the second year

Annual MIDS Opening Lecture

MIDS Opening Lecture: 28 September 2009 "The Representations of International Arbitration", by Prof. Emmanuel Gaillard, Professor at the University of Paris XII, Chair of Shearman & Sterling's International Arbitration practice, Chair of the International Arbitration Institute Time: 18:30 Venue: The Graduate Institute of International and Developement Studies, 132 rue de Lausanne in Geneva, Auditorium Jean Freymond Watch the opening lecture online Download Poster for Annual MIDS Opening Lecture

Application Period for 2009 - 2010 now closed.

***CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL NEW MEMBERS OF THE 2009 - 2010 MIDS CLASS***

Watch the Inaugural MIDS Lecture

The video of the MIDS inaugural lecture is available online on the MIDS website. Streaming the video of the inaugural lecture requires Windows Media Player and broadband internet connectivity.

Announcing the Inaugural MIDS Lecture on October 1st

MIDS Inaugural Lecture: 1 October 2008 "Continuity and Change in International Dispute Settlement", by Prof. James Crawford, Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge Time: Lecture starts at 18:30 Venue: The Graduate Institute of International and Developement Studies, 132 rue de Lausanne in Geneva, either in the Auditorium Jean Freymond or in Room S1 at the Villa Barton

The Geneva Master in International Dispute Resolution will celebrate its launch by organizing an Inaugural Lecture to be delivered by Professor James Crawford. He will speak against the proliferation of international dispute resolution mechanisms in a paper entitled "Continuity and Change in International Dispute Settlement".

Professor James Crawford SC, FBA, LLD is the current Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge and the Director of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law. Professor Crawford is one of the most promiment academics in the field of international law and has an extensive practice in international law and international arbitration, appearing before the ICJ, ITLOS, ICSID and ICC tribunals. He has been an arbitrator in ICSID and ad hoc arbitrations as well as in inter-state cases, is a member of the ICSID panel of arbitrators, author of numerous books, and co-editor of the British Yearbook of International Law. He was previously a Member of the Australian Law Reform Commission (1982-1990) and the International Law Commission (1992-2001). He was the International Law Commission Special Rapporteur on State Responsibility from 1997-2001. He was also Chair of the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge from 2003 to 2006.

Attendance ot the Inaugural Lecture is open to everyone, but there is a limited number of places available and registration is therefore required. To register, please send an email to Ms Evelyne Bryden (bryden (at) mids.ch).