Hamburg International Arbitration Days Conference at Bucerius 2024

The use of AI in Arbitration

Present applications and future perspective

HIAD Conference 2024

The 8th HIAD Conference on ‘The Use of AI in Arbitration - present applications and future perspectives’ took place on 19 March 2024. The Center for International Dispute Resolution at Bucerius Law School, CAM-CCBC, HAC and Rechtsstandort Hamburg e.V. welcomed Cristina Mastrobuono (LL.M., FCiarb), Prof. Dr. Christian Aschauer, Dr. Ramona Schardt (LL.M.), Franziska Fuchs, Dr. Cesar Pereira C.Arb FCiarb and Viktor von Essen on stage. The guests discussed the topic from different perspectives: arbtitrators, counsel and parties. The speakers encouraged the implementation of AI tools in all aspects of arbitration. They introduced AI tools for in-house counsel, law firms and arbitral tribunals to assist the arbitration process. The discussion was complemented by perspectives, aspects and concerns in connection with the adjudication of arbitration awards by AI. Prof. Dr. Paul Oberhammer concluded the conference with a short presentation on ‘A propos Vis: Consolidation Matters’. 

The guests and speakers ended the HIAD Conference with a three-course networking dinner at the Vlet next to the Alster.

We hope to see everyone again next year!

 

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Schedule & Speakers

SCHEDULE

FULL SCHEDULE (PDF)

 


13:00 – 13:30 

Registration and refreshments

 


13:30 – 13:45  

Welcome address

Prof. Dr. Stefan Kröll, LL.M. | Bucerius Law School, Hamburg

Luíza Kömel | CAM-CCBC, São Paulo

 


13:45 – 15:15  

Parties and counsel perspective

Franziska Fuchs, LL.M.oec. | Bosch, Stuttgart

Dr. Cesar Pereira C.Arb FCiarb | Justen, Pereira, Oliveira & Talamini, São Paulo

 

Session chair

Cristina Mastrobuono, LL.M., FCIArb | Independent Arbitrator, São Paulo

 


15:15 – 15:45

Coffee break


15:45 – 17:00  

Arbitrators perspective

Rodrigo Garcia da Fonseca, LL.M. | President of CAM-CCBC, São Paulo

Prof. Dr. Christian Aschauer | University of Graz, Graz

Viktor von Essen | Libra AI Technologies

 

Session chair

Dr. Ramona Schardt, LL.M., Secretary General DIS, Berlin

 


17:00 – 17:15

Coffee break

 


17:15 – 17:45

„A propos Vis: Consolidation Matters“

Prof. Dr. Paul Oberhammer, LL.M. | University of Vienna, Vienna

 


 17:45 – 18:00

Closing remarks

Dr. Johanna Büstgens, Hanefeld, Hamburg

 


18:00

Conference reception

Foyer Auditorium, Bucerius Law School

 


20:00

Conference dinner (separate registration required)

VLET Alster, Jungfernstieg 7, 20354 Hamburg

 

 

Dr. Johanna Büstgens

Johanna Büstgens is a Counsel at the Hamburg office of the dispute resolution boutique HANEFELD. She acts as counsel in arbitration and state court proceedings, as arbitrator and as tribunal secretary in large-volume and complex proceedings. The focus of her practice are energy, construction and Post-M&A disputes. She studied at Bucerius Law School and the University of Oxford (Brasenose College) and holds a doctorate of law from Bucerius Law School. She is a former Co-Chair of DIS40.

Luíza Kömel

Luíza Kömel is Secretary General of the CAM-CCBC (Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada) and a fellow of the CIArb (Chartered Institute of Arbitrators). She has obtained her law degree from the University of São Paulo (USP) and is certified in civil law by the University of Paris II: Pantheón-Assas. She has acted as counsel and case manager in domestic and international arbitration proceedings and has over 11 years of experience working in the field from the institutional perspective.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Kröll

Professor Dr. Stefan Kröll is Professor for International Dispute Resolution and Director of the Center for International Dispute Resolution at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg.

Since January 2022, Stefan Kröll serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors at the German Arbitration Institute. Since 2012 Stefan Kröll is one of the directors of the Willem C. Vis Arbitration Moot Court, the leading student competition in the fields of international commercial law and arbitration with more than 380 participating Universities. Stefan Kröll’s publications include several internationally renowned monographs, treatises and commentaries, as well as a considerable number of articles in international journals.

Cristina Mastrobuono, LL.M., FCiarb

Cristina M. Wagner Mastrobuono is a Brazilian/German lawyer, acting as an independent arbitrator in disputes arising from complex contracts, including those under concession and PPP model. She served the Legal Department of the State of São Paulo where she developed a large experience in public business law involving all forms of interaction between the public and private sectors.

She is a JD from Universidade de São Paulo and holds an LLM degree from the University of Chicago. Cristina is a Fellow from CIArb and is the Vice-Chair of the Brazil Branch. She is also a member of the Board of InfraWomen Brazil/IWB and IBDiC – Instituto Brasileiro do Direito da Construção. Recognised as a “valuable practice” by Leaders League.

Prof. Dr. Christian Aschauer

Dr Christian Aschauer is Professor of arbitration law at the University of Graz and an Independent Arbitrator based in Vienna. His practice as an arbitrator is focusing on commercial cases, with an emphasis on engineering, construction, automotive, post-M&A, international purchase agreements and consulting agreements under different sets of rules, including the ICC, Milan Chamber of Arbitration, VIAC, DIS, SCC and ad hoc. Christian Aschauer is also an academic writer and a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences.

Dr. Ramona Schardt, LL.M.

Dr. Schardt is a dispute resolution specialist with more than 20 years of experience in arbitration as well as in judicial and extrajudicial dispute resolution. She has taken up the office of Secretary General of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS) on 1 January 2023. The DIS is the leading German Arbitration Institute and administers around 190 arbitration proceedings and other out-of-court dispute resolution proceedings between German and foreign parties, mostly companies, every year.

Prior to that she worked as Division Litigation Counsel at Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG and Siemens AG in Munich for thirteen years. She was responsible for international arbitration, litigation and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings. Before joining Siemens, Dr Schardt worked as a lawyer in the Dispute Resolution practice group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Frankfurt am Main for six years.

Dr. Schardt studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena where she received her doctorate. As Fulbright scholar she also completed the Master of Law at the University of Virginia and the University of Georgetown.

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Contact

Center for International Dispute Resolution
Bucerius Law School – Hochschule für Rechtswissenschaft
Email: cidr(at)law-school.de

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