Founded in 1986, the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) has become an important international educational forum in the field of transnational arbitration, counting among its members and contributors today many of the leading arbitrators and arbitration counsel in the world.

Through our annual international arbitration workshops and conferences, our Advisory Board which meets annually during the June Workshop in Dallas, our quarterly publication News and Notes (with its regularly updated Scoreboard of Adherence to Transnational Arbitration Treaties), our DVD Library developed through the work of our Academic Council, and our co-sponsorship of KluwerArbitration.com through the work of our Board of Reporters, the ITA is making a significant contribution to the international arbitration legal community.

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Co-Chairs: Yas Banifatemi and Jeremy K. Sharpe

5th Annual ITA-ASIL Conference:
"Soft Law" Instruments in
International Arbitration
April 9, 2008
Washington, D.C.

Co-sponsored by
Institute for Transnational Arbitration's Academic Council
American Society of International Law (ASIL)

Led by Conference co-chairs Yas Banifatemi (Shearman & Sterling LLP, Paris) and Jeremy K. Sharpe (U.S. Dept. of State, Washington, DC), the 5th Annual ITA ASIL Conference was held April 9, 2008, at The Fairmont Hotel in Washington, DC.

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Co-Chairs: Anibal Sabater & Janet Whittaker

3rd Annual Dallas Roundtable for Young International Arbitrators
June 18, 2008
Dallas, TX

Presented by
Institute for Transnational Arbitration
ICDR Young & International
LCIA Young International Arbitration Group
USCIB Young Arbitrators Forum

The three primary young international arbitration organizations joined again with ITA and presented a special program on the eve of the Workshop. The Roundtable included two substantive panels of young and not-so-young international arbitration specialists and concluded with a networking reception. The Roundtable was designed for young lawyers under the age of 40 who are practicing or interested in practicing international arbitration.

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Co-Chairs: Andrea J. Bjorklund, Stephen Jagusch and Claudia T. Salomon

19th Annual ITA Workshop:
Damages in International Arbitration: Strategies, Techniques & Presentation
June 19, 2008

Led by Workshop co-chairs Andrea K. Bjorklund (UC Davis School of Law, Davis), Stephen Jagusch (Allen & Overy LLP, London) and Claudia T. Salomon (DLA Piper US LLP, New York), the 19th Annual ITA Workshop was held June 19, 2008, at The Westin Galleria in Dallas, Texas.

Members of the ITA's Advisory Board gathered for the Annual Advisory Board Dinner, and then again the following morning on June 20, for the annual open discussion Friday Forum. Click here to learn how to join ITA and its Advisory Board and attend these events and the Workshop itself cost-free.

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Co-Chairs: C. Mark Baker, Carole Malinvaud and José Emilio Nunes Pinto

ITA-CBAr Joint Conference on International Arbitration
September 21-23, 2008
São Paulo, Brazil.

....ITA-CBAr-ICC-ICDR-LCIA Young Lawyers Roundtable
....4^th Annual ITA Americas Workshop
....8^th Annual VIII CBAr International Arbitration Congress

Presented by the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and Comitê Brasileiro de Arbitragem.

Led by Workshop co-chairs C. Mark Baker (Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., Houston), Carole Malinvaud (Gide, Loyrette, Nouel, Paris) and José Emilio Nunes Pinto (José Emilio Nunes Pinto Advogados, São Paulo), the 4th ITA Americas Workshop was presented this year in connection with the annual Congress of the Comitê Brasileiro de Arbitragem. Beginning with a reception on Sunday, September 21, the entire two-day program was presented with simultaneous translation in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

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