The international arbitration conference – Vilnius Arbitration Day 2018 – has taken place in Vilnius on 19 October 2018. The event was dedicated to 60 YEARS OF THE NEW YORK CONVENTION: PRESENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES. Following our successful experience at previous Vilnius Arbitration Day events, the participants from different jurisdictions have exchanged experience and discussed on leading topics in national and international arbitration – successes and failures of NYC, the impact of investor state disputes settlement reform to NYC, enforcement of annuled awards, challenges of use of information and comunication technologies (ICT) in international arbitration.
The event brought together lawyers, arbitrators, legal scientists and ICT experts:
Prof. Loukas Mistelis (UK), Dr. Rèka Papp (Switzerland), Annette Magnusson (Sweden),
Vladimir Khvalei (Russia), Corinne Montineri (Vienna), Dr. Manuel Penades Fons (UK), Rikard Wikstrom-Hermansen (Sweden), Erik Schafer (Germany), Jonas Kupinas (Lithuania), Benjamin Siino (France), Audrius Zujus (Lithuania).
VILNIUS ARBITRATION DAY – the annual arbitration conference in Lithuania, organized by the Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration since 2011 with the aim to discuss the newest global and regional tendencies and practice, to share the experience and to promote Lithuania as an arbitration friendly state.