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Professor Rogers to discuss international arbitration law at New York event


UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Professor Catherine A. Rogers, the Paul and Marjorie Price Faculty Scholar​ at Penn State Law, is speaking in New York City on March 8 as part of a panel discussion on the enforcement of arbitral awards under international law.

Revisiting Chromalloy: Enforcing Vacated Awards Under the New York Convention” is set for 5:30 p.m. at the New York offices of Sidley Austin LLP at 787 Seventh Avenue. The event brings together leading practitioners from Sidley Austin and academicians to discuss a topic that has both practical and more theoretical implications.

Joining Rogers on the panel are George A. Berman of Columbia University School of Law and Dorothee Schramm of Sidley Austin LLP. Sidley Austin’s Louis B. Kimmelman will moderate the discussion.

In the Chromalloy case, decided in 1996, a U.S. court notoriously enforced an arbitral award that had been annulled in Egypt.

"Despite having been debated for decades, continued controversy remains about the enforceability of international arbitration awards that have been annulled in another country,” said Rogers. “The topic raises not only practical questions about the fate of particular arbitral awards, but larger questions about the interpretation of the New York Convention (which governs enforcement of international arbitration), and more structural issues about the international arbitration system and the inter-relationship of national courts in that system."

Both Rogers and Bermann are Reporters on the Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration. They will specifically address how the Restatement resolves the issue of enforceability of awards that have been annulled elsewhere as well as discuss recent case law from the U.S. and around the world.

“Revisiting Chromalloy” is sponsored by the Columbia University Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration, the New York International Arbitration Center, and Sidley Austin LLP.

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