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The intensive courses provide an opportunity to delve into the details of the topics addressed briefly during the general courses, to focus on a specialized dispute settlement mechanism, to study a specific issue which arises in different dispute settlement settings, or to reflect on matters of legal theory or philosophical aspects of dispute settlement. Such courses will in principle consist of nine hours of class taught over two or three days. Student pick eight of the following courses.



2011-2012 Intensive courses:

1. Investment Arbitration
   

Prof. Jan Paulsson, Professor, Miami School of Law; Centennial Professor, London School of Economics; President, ICCA; Judge and Past President, World Bank Administrative Tribunal; Past President, LCIA.

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2. Negotiation
   

Prof. Robert Mnookin, Professor, Harvard University; Chair, Harvard Program on Negotiation; Director, Harvard Negotiation Research Project.

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3. WTO Dispute Settlement
   

Prof. Gabrielle Marceau, Counselor, Legal Affairs Division of the WTO; Associate Professor, Geneva University.

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4. Arbitration in the United States
   

Prof. William Park, Professor, Boston University; President, LCIA.

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5. ICC Arbitration
   

Prof. Pierre Tercier, Honorary Chairman, ICC International Court of Arbitration; Honorary Professor, University of Fribourg.

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6. The New York Convention of 1958
   

Prof. Albert Jan van den Berg, Professor, Erasmus University, Rotterdam; Partner, Hanotiau & van den Berg; General Editor, Yearbook Commercial Arbitration.

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7. Arbitration in China
   

Prof. Lu Song, Associate Professor, China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing.

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8. The Power of the International Judge or Arbitrator to Interpret the Facts and the Law
   

Prof. Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

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9. The Definition of Investment
   

Prof. Brigitte Stern, Honorary Professor, University Paris I Sorbonne; Associate Member, Institute of International Law.

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10. Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration
   

Prof. George A. Bermann, Walter Gellhorn Professor and Jean Monnet Professor, Columbia Law School.

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11. Contrats d’Etat
   

Prof. Jean-Michel Jacquet, Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; General Editor, Journal du droit international.

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12. Investment Arbitration in Latin America
   

Prof. Raúl E. Vinuesa, Professor, University of Buenos Aires; Member, Institute of International Law.

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13. Sports Arbitration
   

Prof. Antonio Rigozzi, Professor extraordinarius, University of Neuchâtel; Partner, Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler.

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14. Philosophical Questions in International Arbitration
   

Dr. Thomas Schultz, Senior Lecturer (Maître d'enseignement et de recherche), Geneva University; Managing Editor, Journal of International Dispute Settlement.

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2010-2011 Intensive courses:

1. ICSID Arbitration

Prof. Emmanuel Gaillard, Professor of Law at the University of Paris XII; Chair of Shearman & Sterling's international arbitration practice; Chair of the International Arbitration Institute.

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2. Negotiation

Prof. Robert Mnookin, Harvard University; Director, Harvard Negotiation Research Project and chair, Program on Negotiation.

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3. WTO Dispute Settlement

Prof. Gabrielle Marceau, Counselor to the Cabinet of the Director-General of the WTO; Associate Professor of Law at Geneva University.

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4. Arbitration in the United States

Prof. William Park, Professor of Law at Boston University; President of the London Court of International Arbitration.

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5. ICC Arbitration

Prof. Pierre Tercier, Honorary Chairman of the ICC International Court of Arbitration; Honorary Professor at the University of Fribourg.

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6. International Mediation: Underlying Dynamics

Prof. Daniel L. Shapiro, Director of the Harvard International Negotiation Program.

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7. The Power of the International Judge or Arbitrator to Interpret the Facts and the Law

Prof. Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Professor of Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

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8. Investment Arbitration in Latin America and the Development of International Law

Prof. Francisco Orrego Vicuña, Professor of Law at the University of Chile; former President of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal; former President of the Institut de droit international.

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9. Due Process, Human Rights, and International Dispute Settlement

Lucius Caflisch, Honorary Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; former judge at the European Court of Human Rights; member of the International Law Commission.

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10. Contrats d’Etat

Prof. Jean-Michel Jacquet, Professor of Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; General Editor of Le Journal du droit international.

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11. Dispute Systems Design

Prof. Robert C. Bordone, Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; Director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program.

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12. Arbitration in China

Prof. Lu Song, Associate Professor at China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing.

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13. Sports Arbitration

Dr. Antonio Rigozzi, Lecturer at the University of Neuchâtel; Partner in Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler.

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14. Philosophical Aspects of Dispute Settlement: An Introduction

Dr. Thomas Schultz, Senior Lecturer (Maître d'enseignement et de recherche) at Geneva University; Managing Editor of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement.

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