{"id":16960,"date":"2024-02-09T17:52:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T15:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wagner-arbitration.com\/?p=16960"},"modified":"2024-03-06T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T13:49:09","slug":"swiss-arbitration-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagner-arbitration.com\/de\/2024\/02\/09\/swiss-arbitration-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Arbitration Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Swiss Arbitration Summit organised by\u00a0ASA – Swiss Arbitration Association<\/a>\u00a0and held in Geneva last week was not all cocktails and frolicking in the snow \u2013 interesting and topical issues in arbitration were discussed as well!<\/p>\n

The first panel of the ASA conference on Friday was co-moderated by\u00a0Michele Potest\u00e0<\/a>\u00a0and WagArb Of Counsel\u00a0Laura Halonen<\/a>. The topic was \u201cArbitrating Conflict: What Role for Switzerland in Promoting the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes?\u201d<\/p>\n

Christopher Thomas KC<\/a>\u00a0kicked off the discussion by explaining the seismic importance to future world politics of the Alabama Claims Arbitration (named after a ship and not the US state!) seated in Geneva in 1872. While according to Chris modern practitioners would hardly recognise the way in which the arbitration was conducted, the fact that the US and Great Britain could settle their differences through arbitration cooled down geopolitical tensions and laid the foundation for the extremely strong relations that the two states have had ever since.<\/p>\n

Next,\u00a0Patrick W. Pearsall<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Philippa Webb<\/a>\u00a0jumped ahead 1.5 centuries to the present day, discussing the Ukraine Claims Commission project. After Patrick set out the basics of where we are and how we got here, Philippa outlined some of the challenges stemming from lack of Russia\u2019s consent to the process. In particular, she considered four potential routes to legally seizing and using Russia\u2019s assets:<\/p>\n