Promoting And Encouraging Trade And Commerce In The Pacific Region Through Dispute Resolution

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Seminar: Promoting And Encouraging Trade And Commerce In The Pacific Region Through Dispute Resolution
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP and the Centre for Small States, Queen Mary University of London, are delighted to invite you to a discussion focusing on the importance of effective International Dispute Resolution for Pacific Island countries to foster and enhance trade and commerce.
Gary Born, Chair of the International Arbitration Practice at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, is widely regarded as the world’s preeminent authority on international commercial arbitration and international litigation. Mr Born has been a regular visitor to the Pacific Island region in recent years to discuss and to advise on issues of international dispute resolution. He has served as counsel in over 650 international arbitrations and as arbitrator in more than 200 institutional and ad hoc arbitrations. He has published a number of leading works on international arbitration, international litigation and other forms of dispute resolution, including International Commercial Arbitration (Kluwer, 2nd ed. 2014), the leading treatise in the field.
Dr Petra Butler, Co-Director of the Centre for Small States and Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, has been involved in projects related to Pacific Island countries for over ten years, including a project on the anthropology of law in the Pacific Islands and a book on Human Rights in the Pacific. She is the co-editor of the World of Small States, a series published by Springer dedicated to exploring current issues small states face. Dr Butler is New Zealand’s leading human rights academic and widely regarded as an expert in the law relating to the international sale of goods. She regularly advises private clients and governments, including on law reform and international obligations in those areas.
The discussion will be followed by drinks and canapés.

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