International and Comparative Law

On January 28, 2021, the AUWCL Center on International Commercial Arbitration invited four alumni who had studied arbitration at the Center as part of their LL.M. training to discuss recent jurisprudential developments in international commercial arbitration. Each panelist addressed different jurisdictions. The Director of the Center, Prof. Horacio A. Grigera Naón, moderated the discussion with an audience of more than seventy students and practitioners connecting from around the world. The panel discussion addressed current trends regarding the determination of the law applicable to the arbitration agreement, the extension of arbitration clauses to non-signatories, the support of local courts for the production of evidence in an arbitration proceeding, and the competent courts to recognize and enforce and to set aside arbitral awards.

On December 17, 2020, AUWCL and the ABCI Institute, in partnership with the Brazilian Embassy and Women Inside Trade hosted the XVI Symposium on International Trade. This symposium weighed the challenges and opportunities they expect for the Biden Administration, and the future of multilateral relations.

Ikechukwu Obioma is a 2020 graduate of our LL.M. in International Legal Studies. His focus during his degree was International Trade and Investment Law. He shares why he chose AUWCL and what he gained from his experience.

Hear from Knox Thames, AU SIS MA '01 & AUWCL JD '01, and current Visiting Expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He shares his perspective on his time at AUWCL, and his current research focus. 

A recent report lays out the risks associated with Chinese technology platforms operating in the United States. The report was prepared by professors Jennifer Daskal and Gary Corn from AUWCL’s Tech, Law, and Security Program and the National Security, Technology, and Law Working Group at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

On February 19, 2021, AUWCL’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law held a panel discussion on Police Brutality at Home and Abroad, with a special focus on the Middle East and North African region (MENA). The discussion raised awareness of growing police brutality in the MENA region, with information on general trends as well as local or regional problems that exacerbate this form of abuse.