Materials

Plenary session: Views of leading international arbitration institutions on arbitration reform and the registration process in Russia.

Presentation by Kathryn Sanger, Member, HKIAC Council

Session 1: Debates: Creeping Americanization of international arbitration: is it the right time to develop inquisitorial rules of evidence?

Presentation by Alexandre Khrapoutski, Partner, Sysouev, Bondar, Khrapoutski and partners

Session 2. Landmark Russian arbitration cases of 2016

Types of arbitration agreements - Alexander Bezborodov, Partner and the Head of the Litigation Practice Group at BEITEN BURKHARDT’s Moscow office 


Session 3. Debates. Women in arbitration - “A chicken is not a bird, Poland is not abroad, a woman is not an arbitrator”? Do we need a special treatment for female arbitrators?

Presentation by Anna Grishchenkova, Partner, KIAP

Presentation by Dr. Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz, President, Lewiatan Court of Arbitration

Presentation by Nicholas Peacock, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills

Presentation by Heidi Merikalla-Teir, Secretary General, The Arbitration Institute of the Finland Chamber of Commerce