JAMS is a proud sponsor of the International Law Section of the Florida Bar.
Please join us at iLaw 2020 on February 28, 2020 at the Marriot Marquis in Miami for the Section’s flagship one-day Forum on International Law. iLaw 2020 will contain three simultaneous tracks, each with four sessions throughout the day: (1) the international arbitration track, (2) the litigation track, and (3) the business transactions track.
The Conference promises to attract close to 200 US and international practitioners for a day of networking and CLE programming, including plenary and lunch session programming on trending topics. The unofficial theme of this year’s conference is International Corruption.
JAMS Featured Speaker
Gary Birnberg
Thinking Big After the Singapore Convention: The Promise of Cross-Border Mediation
On August 7, 2019, 46 countries, including the United States, China, India and South Korea signed the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements for Mediation in Singapore, which enables enforcement of mediated settlements between signatory states, and has the potential to transform how disputes are managed around the world. The panel will review the Convention’s anticipated impact from multiple perspectives discuss whether cross-border mediation post-Singapore will become as prominent on the international stage as did arbitration following the New York Convention.