This document provides an agenda for the "Back to Basics: Enduring Challenges in International Arbitration Law" conference held on March 6, 2015 at Columbia Law School. The one-day conference included four panels discussing topics such as choice of law, res judicata, investment treaty arbitration, and the scope of umbrella clauses. It also lists the confirmed speakers for the event and provides information on how to register. CLE credits were available for attorneys.

1. Back to Basics: Enduring Challenges
in International Arbitration Law
Preliminary Program
Friday, March 6, 2015
Columbia Law School New York State Areas of Professional Practice
CLE credits available for this event.

2. Conference Program
Friday, March 6, 2015 at Columbia University School of Law, Jerome Greene Hall
8:30 a.m. – 8:55 a.m. Registration & Breakfast
8:55 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Conference Introduction by CAD Co-Chair
9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Panel 1 – Mock Case: Choice of Law and the
Arbitration Agreement
10:20 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. Coffee Break
10:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Panel 2 – Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel in
International Arbitration
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. Panel 3 – ISDS Mechanism in the Negotiation of the
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
3:20 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. Coffee Break
3:40 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Panel 4 – Mock Case: Scope and Effect of Umbrella
Clauses in Investment Treaties
5:00 p.m. – 5:05 p.m. Concluding Remarks by CAD Co-Chair
5:05 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Raffle Contest
5:15 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Cocktail Reception
Confirmed Speakers
Jalal El Ahdab, Ginestié Magellan Paley-Vincent • Mark Beckett, Chadbourne & Parke LLP • George Bermann,
Columbia Law School • Siegfried Elsing, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP • Mark Friedman, Debevoise & Plimpton
LLP • Teresa Giovannini, LALIVE • Jonathan Hamilton, White & Case LLP • Rachael Kent, WilmerHale • Richard
Kreindler, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP• Noiana Marigo, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer • Sophie Nappert,
Independent Arbitrator • Nikolaus Pitkowitz, Graf & Pitkowitz • Michael Polkinghorne, White & Case LLP • Catherine
Rogers, Penn State Law • Robert Smit, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP • Ignacio Suarez Anzorena, Clifford Chance
• Thomas Voisin, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP • Anne Marie Whitesell, Georgetown Law School
Registration
Register at http://web.law.columbia.edu/columbia-arbitration-day