UM Trustee Wayne Chaplin, JD ’82, Provost Thomas J. LeBlanc, Dean Patricia D. White, Professor Jan Paulsson, President Donna E. Shalala, Marike Paulsson, Carolyn Lamm, JD ’73, Joan Fabry Klein, Michael Klein, JD ’66, Vice Dean Patrick Gudridge
Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Competition. (See page 25 for more information about UM Law’s international moot court successes.) Several prominent practitioners also came to the Coral Gables campus last year to lead a series of arbitration lectures and seminars. Experienced Mexican sports arbitrator and author of Arbitraje Deportivo (Sports Arbitration) Francisco Gonzalez de Cossio spoke on how disputes involving athletes, coaches, and sports federation officials at the Vancouver Winter Olympics could be settled in a matter of hours. Expert arbitrator Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez spoke about NAFTA, its impact, and its effects on national economies and regional integration. Several distinguished speakers are lined up for this year as well, including Prof. Karl-Heinz Bockstiegel from the University of Cologne, Germany.
and Freedberg have participated in the work of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) on the revision of its Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration and its Arbitration Rules. “With Jan’s arrival, the University of Miami has put in place all the pieces necessary to become a major source of arbitration information, education and idea-generation,” said Jose Astigarraga, J.D. ’78. “As leading thinker in this field, he has already created an energy that is attracting other worldclass lawyers to teach here. With its Miami location at the gateway of the Americas, the program is perfectly poised to become a clearinghouse of information and engine of education in this burgeoning field.”
Michael Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair Miami Law celebrated the investiture of world-renowned international arbitrator and UM Law Professor Jan Paulsson to the Michael Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair on April 29. Approximately 100 faculty, students, alumni, and members of the international arbitration community gathered at the Lowe Art Museum to witness the ceremony and hear Paulsson present a lecture titled, “Moral Hazard and International Dispute Resolution.”
The International Arbitration Program plays an active role in the Miami international arbitration community through its participation on the Board of Directors in the Miami International Arbitration Society, represented by Judith Freedberg, UM Law’s Director of Professional Programs. Additionally, Paulsson
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