April 15, 2012

Public lecture organized by University of Geneva, Switzerland, MIDS (Master in International Dispute Settlement) program

Source: MIDS

The Geneva LL.M. Master in International Dispute Settlement will organize a public lecture by Professor Pierre Mayer on Monday, 14 May 2012 on "Conflicting Decisions in International Commercial Arbitration".

Registration is free but places are limited. Please email Ms Antonella Ghio (antonella.ghio<at>graduateinstitute.ch).

Professor Pierre Mayer Pierre Mayer, partner at the Paris office of Dechert LLP, is a professor at the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he teaches private international law and arbitration law since 1984.
He practices arbitration, both as counsel and arbitrator, mainly in the fields of international trade, joint ventures and industrial cooperation, oil and gas, technology transfer and distribution, under the rules of ICSID, ICC and UNCITRAL.
He is associate member of the Institut de droit international, member of the Council of the ICC Institute of World business Law and member of the Board of the Comité Français de l'Arbitrage. He is a former President of the French Committee on International Private Law, of the Committee on International Commercial Arbitration of the International Law Association and of the Committee on Private International Law of the International Union of Lawyers (UIA).
Mr. Mayer is the author of numerous articles and several books, including a treatise on Private International Law, "Droit international privé", Montchrestien (first edition 1977, in its tenth edition on collaboration with Professor Vincent Heuzé, 2010) and the 2003 General course at The Hague Academy of International Law.