The Arbitral Women Mentorship Programme, now in its 13th year, is designed to connect experienced female practitioners in the field of dispute resolution with talented and ambitious women to help them to achieve their goals of...
14 June, 2019 Read more
We are delighted to share the news of a recently released book honouring the life and words of the late Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Judith S. Kaye (1938-2016). Judith Kaye was the...
9 June, 2019 Read more
At the 1-5 April 2019 session at United Nations headquarters in New York, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group III considered its next steps toward proposed reforms for the current...
29 May, 2019 Read more
The Diversity Lab, an incubator focused on diversity and inclusion issues in the legal industry, launched the newest version of its campaign to boost diversity in legal departments. Eight companies, including PayPal, Symantec Corp., US Bank,...
23 April, 2019 Read more
Columbia Law School – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Comprehensive Course on International Arbitration A week-long systematic and comprehensive examination of the law and practice of international arbitration. The course features lecture and interactive segments and...
23 April, 2019 Read more
The Commonwealth Secretariat is conducting a Study on challenges to accessing international commercial arbitration across all 53 Commonwealth countries, and potential solutions. The aim of the study is to understand the use of international commercial...
18 April, 2019 Read more
In light of ArbitralWomen’s expanding marketing activities, we recently added five AW members to our Marketing Committee: Saadia Bhatty (London), Vanessa Alarcon Duvanel (Geneva), Natalia Otlinger (London), Rekha Rangachari (New York) and Umika Sharma. These new members of the Marketing Committee will contribute to...
29 March, 2019 Read more
Take Charge Negotiations™ is a consultancy that was founded by Erin Gleason to support women in negotiations through one-on-one consulting services and group training programs. Erin created this company after hearing too many stories from...
22 March, 2019 Read more
To celebrate International Women’s Day CIArb interviewed professionals from various jurisdictions, at different stages of their careers and asked them about their experiences as female practitioners in ADR. The interviewees talked about their incredible achievements...
19 March, 2019 Read more
The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR Institute) launched a compilation of CPR’s Female Neutrals, many of whom are ArbitralWomen members, at CPR’s 2019 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The compilation is titled, “Look Who’s...
8 March, 2019 Read more
We are excited to announce that ArbitralWomen is partnering with Arbitrator Intelligence (AI) on a joint AW-AI AIQ Women Arbitrators Campaign. The campaign will launch on Friday, 8 March 2019 – International Women’s Day 2019!...
8 March, 2019 Read more
Dana MacGrath on the New Generation of International Arbitrators We spoke with Dana MacGrath, of counsel to Sidley Austin’s International Arbitration and Commercial Litigation and Disputes practices, about changes in the dispute-resolution landscape and developing...
11 December, 2018 Read more
In a world where women outnumber men and where women are active in all business and legal fields, women remain under-represented in key positions in all fields. The under-representation is not a matter of lack...
6 December, 2018 Read more
ArbitralWomen (AW) and the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge (ERA Pledge) efforts have been having important effects on promoting women practitioners in dispute resolution. Arbitral institutions are publishing both general statistics about gender and other diversity criteria...
4 December, 2018 Read more
On 10 October 2018, Burford Capital launched The Equity Project. As described in Burford’s press release, The Equity Project is “a groundbreaking initiative designed to help close the gender gap in law by providing an...
11 October, 2018 Read more