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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

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

Center Co-Hosts a Conference on "The Impact of Sanction" in Bergamo, Italy
The Center is glad to be able to announce that on Monday, October 2nd, 2023, it will host a conference titled "The Impact of Sanctions, Selected Issues" in collaboration with the Law Department of Bergamo University.

Professor Franco Ferrari publishes paper on the impact of domestic law on international commercial arbitration
Professor Franco Ferrari, the Center’s Director, has just published a paper titled “International Commercial Arbitration is also National” in a multi-language volume edited by Gilberto Giusti, Eliana Baraldi, Eduardo Vieira de Almeida, and Gustavo Favero Vaughn, and coordinated by Paula Akemi Taba Vaz, titled “Arbitragem e Poder Judiciário."

Professor Ferrari published a paper on the importance of the seat in publication sponsored by the Hague Academy of International Law
Professor Franco Ferrari, the Center’s Director, has just published a paper on the importance of the law of the seat in international commercial arbitration in a volume entitled “Applicable Law Issues in International Arbitration / Questions de droit applicable dans l’arbitrage international”, co-edited by Diego P. Fernández Arroyo (Sciences Po) and Giuditta Cordero-Moss (Oslo University), and published by Brill under the auspices of The Hague Academy of International Law.

Professors Franco Ferrari and Friedrich Rosenfeld publish a book on “Deference in International Commercial Arbitration”
Kluwer Law International has just published a book co-edited by Professor Franco Ferrari, the Director of the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law, and Professor Friedrich Rosenfeld, Global Adjunct Professor at NYU Paris and Partner at Hanefeld, Hamburg/Paris, entitled “Deference in International Commercial Arbitration”. 

Center hosts Conference on Deference in International Arbitration
On April 28, 2023, the NYU’s Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law will host an in-person conference dedicated to “Deference in International Arbitration." 

Center hosts research seminar for graduate students
The Center is glad to be able to announce that on April 27, 2023, from 9.00 am -6.00 pm, it will host a research seminar focusing on papers authored by graduate students enrolled in NYU School of Law’s IBRLA LL.M. program.