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The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law has been established to advance the study and practice of international business transactions and the way to solve related disputes either through litigation or arbitration.

As commercial transactions become increasingly international, it is vital to the legal and business communities to understand and analyze the practices and legal principles that govern relationships between firms and between firms and consumers in the international arena.  Subjects such as the appropriate degree of harmonization of domestic laws, sovereign and private lending to developing nations, choice of law in commercial transactions, the proper scope of international arbitration and litigation, and the role of private groups in promulgating principles that have international application will inevitably increase in importance in the immediate future, and both attorneys and their clients who are involved in projects that transcend national boundaries must have an increased understanding and appreciation of the implications of these areas.

What's New

Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law hosts a lecture on "The Evolution of French Arbitration Law: Teaching From Recent Case Law"
On April 23, 2024, the Center will host Judge Fabienne Schaller, who will give a lecture titled "The Evolution of French Arbitration Law: Teaching From Recent Case Law.

The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law co-hosts a conference on soft law in Vienna
The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law is glad to announce that it is convening, together with Bucerius Law School, McGill University - Faculty of Law, and University of Verona School of Law, an in-person arbitration conference focusing on soft law.

Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law hosts 4th Intergenerational Arbitration Symposium in Paris
The Center is glad to announce that it will host, together with SciencesPo Law School, the 4th edition of the Intergenerational Arbitration Symposium (IGAS). 

The NYU School of Law's Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law hosts an arbitration seminar in Baku, Azerbaijan
The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law is glad to be able to announce that it will host an arbitration seminar together with ADA University School of Law.

The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law hosts a seminar on "Drafting Contracts and International Arbitration"
Join us for a seminar co-hosted by NYU School of Law's Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law, the University of Oslo's Centre for Commercial Law, and convened by Professor Giuditta Cordero-Moss.

Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law co-hosts arbitration seminar in Singapore
The Center is glad to be able to announce that it will host a seminar together with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and Maxwell Chambers.

The Center hosts a two-day arbitration conference in Santiago
The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law is glad to announce that it will host, together with the School of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and SciencesPo Law School, and arbitration conference focusing on current issues and future challenges.

Center co-hosts 2nd "Arbitration in 2 Worlds" conference with Columbia Law School and the Arbitration Channel
On 9 and 10 November 2023, The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law will host, together with Columbia Law School and the Arbitration Channel, the 2nd conference on "Arbitration in 2 Worlds" focusing on peculiarities of the Brazilian and the US arbitration regimes.

Center organizes the 3rd Cross-Examination Moot and an Arbitration Conference in Paris
The Center is glad to announce that, together with SciencesPo Law School, Queen Mary University of London, and National University of Singapore Law, it will host once again the Cross-Examination Moot.

Professors Franco Ferrari, Friedrich Rosenfeld, and Caroline Kleiner publish a comparative introduction to international commercial arbitration
Professors Franco Ferrari, the Center's Director, Friedrich Rosenfeld (Global Adjunct Professor of Law at NYU Paris and Partner at Hanefeld, Paris/Hamburg), and Caroline Kleiner (Professor of Law at at Université Paris Cité) have just published a book titled Arbitrage Commercial International. Une approche comparative