Roundtable

A New Era in International Arbitration?

Date

Wednesday 2 July 2025

Time

16:00 - 17:30 hour

Address

Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague

Room

Auditorium 2.01

As part of the Leiden – Edinburgh Global Law Summer Course, The Hague Global Futures Hub will host a series of roundtable discussions focused on Global Legal Practice and the future of the legal profession in The Hague.

We are witnessing new trends in international arbitration and this roundtable offers a chance for scholars and practitioners to come together to discuss these developments and what these changes mean for legal practice. Some of these developments are emerging in different fields of arbitration and therefore our panelists come from a variety of fields.

The roundtable will discuss how international arbitration has changed in relation to public interest resolution, India as a hub of Global Arbitration and its recent reforms, as well as the rise of other global majority states as sites of arbitration, and how ‘public interest arbitration’ can help address global challenges such as conflict, cybersecurity, and climate change.

Panelist:

 

Aarif Abraham, Doughty Street Chambers, Accountability Unit

Paula Baldini Miranda da Cruz, Permanent Court of Arbitration

Catherine Rogers, Bocconi University 

Noor Kadhim, Fieldfisher

*Participants of the Grotius Summer Schools do not need to register to attend this event. The same applies for staff and students of Leiden University with a valid LU Card.

Register here

Information about all the roundtables can be found below: 

• The Future of Human Rights
• A New Era in International Arbitration?
• Climate Change: Pathways to Public Interest Advocacy

The Hague Global Futures Hub provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and data driven innovation approach to understanding and addressing challenges on the global stage, driven by a commitment to sustainability and social justice in local contexts. The Hub aims to address global complex challenges and to contribute to interdisciplinary, innovative, and future-focused solutions. The Hub builds on existing collaborations of the two universities Leiden and Edinburgh across four interconnected and integrated dimensions of activities:

•  Challenge-based education
• Co-creational research
• Lifelong Learning and professional development
• Global outreach and societal engagement, in cooperation with (international) partners.