The 28th IPBA Annual Meeting and Conference is an avenue to discuss and dissect legal trends, opportunities and challenges brought by ASEAN integration and how it improves the professional and the business landscape in the region.

We are proud to announce that our Mr Robert Pé will be speaking on 15 March 2018 in the following panel:

China's Belt & Road Initiative - "Seeing is Believing": The Need for Tailor Made Dispute Resolution Mechanisms

China's Belt and Road initiative is a vast development strategy, involving more than 60 diverse countries in varying stages of development. Areas of cooperation under the initiative include policy coordination, facilities connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial integration, and people-to-people bonds, which are likely to have far-reaching effects for many disciplines, including international arbitration.

Some have called for uniform arbitral process to address the specific needs arising out of One Belt One Road. Others, however, view uniform arbitration procedure for resolving Belt and Road disputes as simply reinventing the wheel.

During this session, panellists will analyse practical dispute resolution mechanisms for Belt and Road related disputes and consider the challenges associated with the implementation of a uniform approach

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