CRiL News
2024
On Wednesday, 28 February 2024, the first seminar in thus year’s CRiL Research Seminar Series was held. The Centre for Research for Law had the pleasure to welcome Dr Hakeem Seriki, Associate Professor in Commercial/Trade Law at University of East Anglia, who delivered a very engaging and insightful talk titled “Fraud and International Arbitration in Light of P&ID Case: What Lessons must we learn?”.
Dr Seriki’s presentation examined the recent decision of the English High Court in P&ID case to set aside a London seated arbitration award because of how the award was procured. Dr Seriki highlighted the importance of this decision due to its implications for arbitration as a dispute resolution mechanism and concluded that the decision is one that the arbitral community must reflect on. His talk also considered what lessons State Governments and the arbitral community must learn from this decision.
The next research seminar will take place online, via MS Teams, on Wednesday, 13 March 2024 at 1.00 pm UK time (the event is in the UBBS calendar). The guest speaker is Dr Georgia Antonopolou. Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham’s Law School. She will be discussing “The ‘Arbitralization’ of Courts: The Role of International Commercial Arbitration in the Establishment and the Procedural Design of International Commercial Courts.” In her talk, Dr Antonopolou will explore, through a comparative analysis of different international commercial courts, how the competition with arbitration has prompted the establishment of these courts, and how arbitration has served as the inspiration for some of their most innovative features.
Everyone is welcome to attend and forward the invitation to the event. In case of any questions, please contact Dr Ana Harvey at ana.harvey@beds.ac.uk
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