Please join us, on October 17th (12:15 - 1:15 PM) in JGH 107 for a panel discussion "Arbitrating Around the World: comparing practitioners perspectives across the UK, Italy, and Portugal".
Our wonderful panelists will be covering:
1) Unique aspects of arbitral practice in their jurisdictions
2) Career development
The panel features:
Amanda J. Lee FCIArb (Arbitrator and Consultant, Constigan King, London; Founder of Careers in Arbitration and ARBalance)
Ana Coimbra Trigo (PhD candidate at NOVA Faculty of Law; Associate, PLMJ Law Firm, Lisbon, Portugal)
Camilla Gambarini (LL.M. '14, Senior Associate at Withers London;)
Irene Whelan, our CAD co-chair, will moderate the event. A pizza lunch will be served.
Please RSVP here.
Bios:
Amanda Lee FCIArb is an Arbitrator and Consultant at Costigan King, London, where she specializes in commercial dispute resolution. She has served as sole arbitrator on 25+ occasions, in domestic and international arbitration proceedings, both ad hoc and institutional. Amanda is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Law, UK, and a member of the INIAC Advisory Board, and ArbitralWomen's Advisory Council, amongst other roles. She is the Founder of Careers in Arbitration and ARBalance.
Ana Coimbra Trigo is a PhD candidate at NOVA School of Law (Lisbon), benefiting from an FCT Scholarship. She has undertaken research stays at the EUI (Florence), Sciences Po (Paris), and with a Fulbright Grant at Columbia University (New York). She earned her law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a master's degree in International and European law from the China-EU Faculty of Law at CUPL (Beijing, China) conferred by the University of Hamburg.
Ana is also an associate in the Dispute Resolution practice at PLMJ Law Firm (Lisbon), Portugal. Her work focuses on arbitration, institutional and ad hoc, domestic and international, both as lawyer and tribunal secretary, as well as in arbitration-related litigation and other domestic and international civil and commercial disputes.
Besides speaking and publishing frequently in the field, Ana is a founding member of PT-VYAP (Portugal-Very Young Arbitration Practitioners), coach for the NOVA Vis Moot team, and deputy director of the Revista Internacional de Arbitragem e Conciliação (Portuguese Arbitration and Conciliation Review). In the international field, she is global co-director of events for Young ICCA (Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration) and is a member of the secretariat of the Lusophone Arbitration Club (Clube dos Arbitralistas Lusófonos).
Camilla Gambarini is a Senior Associate at Withers in London. She is dual qualified in Italy and England and Wales as a Solicitor Advocate. She specializes in public international law and international arbitration (commercial and investor-State). Before moving to London in 2015, she practiced in Milan, Houston and New York where she was a foreign associate at King & Spalding. She graduated from Columbia (LLM) in 2014 and holds a Master's Degree in International Law from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and a Law Degree from the Catholic University of Milan.
She advises individuals, companies and States in both commercial and investor-State cases under the major arbitration rules, including the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL and ICSID rules covering different industries (including, energy, infrastructure and metals) in the EMEA, Latin America and CIS regions.
She also advises States on public international law matters, including law of the sea, issues of statehood, international environmental law and immunities.
Camilla has an active human rights pro bono practice. She frequently works with the Center for Reproductive Rights drafting amici briefs to be submitted before constitutional courts (such as Chile, Uganda, the USA) as well as United Nations Treaty Bodies and regional human rights courts.
She is ranked as a rising star in public international law and international arbitration by Legal 500 UK as well as a Future Leader – Non Partner by Who's Who Legal. She was co-chair of Young ICCA (2018-2020) and continues being involved in the international arbitration community attending conferences and participating in arbitral organizations, such as REAL and RAI.
