In dedication to the remarkable legacy of Professor David D. Caron, former Executive Dean of the Dickson Poon School of Law (1952-2018), this event presents By Peaceful Means: International Adjudication and Arbitration, a collection of essays by distinguished friends and colleagues published by Oxford University Press in 2024, exploring how international dispute resolution seeks to avert disaster and mitigate discord, and how it might continue to do so in our uncertain future. The panel will include Andrea Bjorklund, Penelope Nevill, Uche Onwuamaegbu, Federico Ortino, and Yuval Shany.

Speakers Bios:

Ucheora Onwuamaegbu is a consulting attorney with ArentFox Schiff LLP, in Washington, DC., who acts as arbitrator in international disputes. As part of a team that also represents clients in investment and commercial disputes, he advises a broad range of private and sovereign clients in connection with the dispute settlement aspects of their transactions, policy making, and implementation of complex projects. A former ICSID Senior Counsel and team leader, Uche has been involved in over 80 international arbitrations as arbitrator, counsel, tribunal secretary or case administrator. The cases span across industry sectors like agriculture, banking/finance, construction, energy and natural resources (oil, gas & mining), financial services, hospitality, e-sports, sports, tourism, technology, telecommunications and transportation. He is a member of the Board and of the leadership of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center.

Professor Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee from 2013 to 2020 (and served between 2018-2019 as Chair of the Committee). He currently teaches at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies at King’s College in London and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute and as an academic visitor in the Oxford Ethics in AI Institute.

Penelope Nevill is a specialist in international law. Her practice focuses on disputes and transactional advice across a range of areas, including public international law, EU law, public law and human rights, commercial disputes raising questions of international and EU law and the interaction between legal systems and regimes. She has appeared as counsel before the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the General Court of the EU and a United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Annex VII Tribunal, as well as the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of England and Wales. Penelope has extensive and varied experience in practice and academia. Her career commenced as a litigation lawyer in New Zealand with leading firm Chapman Tripp and includes time as a full-time academic at the University of Cambridge, teaching public international law, EU law and the law of armed conflict. She is currently a Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at King’s College, London.

Andrea K. Bjorklund is a Full Professor and the L. Yves Fortier Chair in International Arbitration and International Commercial Law at McGill University Faculty of Law. In July 2019, she took up the role of Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) at McGill Law for a three-year mandate. In July 2022, she was appointed Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Scholar in Arbitration and Commercial Law for a third time. In addition to serving as an adviser to the American Law Institute’s project on restating the U.S. law of international commercial arbitration, she is a member of the Advisory Board of the Investment Treaty Forum of the British Institute for International and Comparative Law. Professor Bjorklund sits on the panel of arbitrators of the AAA’s International Centre for Dispute Resolution and on the roster of NAFTA Chapter 19 arbitrators, and has joined the panel of arbitrators for the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) for a six-year term. She was appointed by Canada’s Ministry of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development. Professor Bjorklund is widely published in investment law and dispute resolution and transnational contracts. She is currently working on a new book with Stefan Kröll & Franco Ferrari: Cambridge Compendium of International Commercial and Investment Arbitration (Cambridge University Press).