World Bank hosts launch event for Professor Rogers' latest book

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the American Society of International Law are holding a book launch event on March 5 at World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., for Penn State Law professor Catherine Rogers’ latest book, Ethics in International Arbitration.

The event will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the World Bank’s MC Front Lobby at 1818 H Street, N.W. Registration is $25 and the event is accredited for 1.5 ethics hours of continuing legal education.

Meg Kinnear, the secretary-general of ICSID, will offer introductory remarks followed by a panel discussion featuring five leading experts and scholars. The panel will examine issues of counsel, expert, and arbitrator ethics, as well as ethical issues relating to third-party funding in today’s world of international arbitration.

The panelists:

• Catherine Amirfar, counselor on international law, U.S. Department of State
• George Bermann, professor of law and director, Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration, Columbia Law School
• Gary Born, chair, International Arbitration Practice Group, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr
• John Crook, arbitrator and professorial lecturer in law, George Washington University Law School
• Horacio Grigera Naón, director, Center on International Commercial Arbitration, American University Washington College of Law

After the panel discussion, Rogers, the Paul and Marjorie Price Faculty Scholar at Penn State Law and professor of ethics, regulation & the rule of law at Queen Mary, University of London, will make some remarks about the larger thesis and purpose of her book.

Ethics in International Arbitration, published by Oxford University Press, is the first monograph to systematically analyze the existing ambiguities and conflicting rules that apply to the conduct of arbitrators, counsel, expert witnesses, and third-party funders in international arbitration. It challenges the international arbitration community to engage in deliberate ethical “self-regulation” to reinforce and promote its own legitimacy and effective functioning.

Rogers will also discuss the book at two upcoming speaking engagements at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Texas. She’ll present at UCLA Law on March 11 at a public event hosted by the Burkle Center for International Relations and the International and Comparative Law Program, with commentary provided by Bryant Garth, Chancellor’s Professor of Law at U.C. Irvine School of Law.  Rogers will address the faculty of the University of Texas School of Law as part of the school’s Faculty Colloquium on April 2.

She has previously delivered talks on Ethics in International Arbitration at Georgetown Law Center and Duke Law School.

About Catherine A. Rogers
Catherine A. Rogers is a professor of law at Penn State Law, and a professor of ethics, regulation, and the rule of law at Queen Mary, University of London, where she is also co-director of the Institute on Ethics & Regulation. Her scholarship focuses on the convergence of the public and private in international adjudication, and on the reconceptualization of the attorney as a global actor. Among other appointments, Rogers is a reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the U.S. Law (Third) of International Commercial Arbitration, one of the ICC Palestine’s delegated members of the Court of Arbitration for the Jerusalem Arbitration Center, and co-chair, together with William W. “Rusty” Park and Stavros Brekoulakis, of the ICCA-Queen Mary Task Force on Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration. She is the president and founder of Arbitrator Intelligence, a nonprofit entity aiming to increase transparency, fairness, and accountability in the arbitrator selection process.