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Domitille Baizeau and Sylvia Noury Elected and Jean Kalicki Re‑Elected to the Governing Board of ICCA Effective 1 April 2020
Domitille Baizeau has been elected to the Governing Board of International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) with effect from 1 April 2020. Domitille is a Geneva-based partner at LALIVE, and has been involved in over 80 commercial and investment treaty disputes in the last twenty years. She is a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC and until recently was a Vice-President of the Arbitration Court of SCAI as well as a member of the Board of Directors of ASA and of the European Users’ Council of the LCIA. Domitille is widely recognised for her expertise as counsel and arbitrator by the Chambers Guide and by Who's Who Legal: Arbitration.
Jean Kalicki has been re-elected to the Governing Board of International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) for a second and final term with effect from 1 April 2020. Jean practices as an independent arbitrator from Arbitration Chambers, New York, with particular focus on investment disputes and complex international cases. She is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and a Vice President of the LCIA Court. She is widely recognised for her expertise as an arbitrator, having been named as the only "Star Arbitrator" (above Band 1) in the USA in the 2019 Chambers Guide. She was named as Global Arbitration Review’s “Best Prepared/Most Responsive Arbitrator” worldwide in 2017, and as one of Law360’s “Five Most Influential Female International Arbitrators” for 2016.
Sylvia Noury has been elected to the Governing Board of International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) with effect from 1 April 2020. Sylvia is a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and heads the firm's London international arbitration. She specialises in the international commercial and investment arbitration, with particular focus on emerging markets in Latin America and Africa. Sylvia is founder and co-chair of the steering committee of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge and a member of the Board of the SCC Arbitral Institute. She is recognised for her expertise by the Chambers Guide and Who's Who Legal: Arbitration.
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Policy on Funding Moot Competition Teams
Each year ArbitralWomen provides support to a number of Teams who participate in dispute resolution competitions, such as the Vis or Vis East International Arbitration Moot by covering their registration fee.
Following are the conditions for the funding:
Any qualified team requesting financial assistance must complete an application form providing details of the teams, resources, and the reason for the requested assistance. The application form is available on the website, and may be amended from time to time as the Board deems appropriate.
The Board, through its Moot Bursary Committee, shall consider all applications received and decide which team(s) shall be supported through payment of its(their) registration fee to compete. In general, teams selected will be from different countries. Applications filed after the deadline will be disregarded.
Criteria of selection:
The team must reflect ArbitralWomen's mission of promoting the participation of women in dispute resolution, i.e. at least half of the members of a team must be women.
The team must demonstrate the need for financial assistance.
Priority will be given to teams:
who have not previously participated, and whose school has not previously participated;
who have no support from their universities or no coach;
who come from developing countries or jurisdictions which, in the sole discretion of the Board, are in the greatest need of support for the advancement of women in dispute resolution;
of smaller number of students composing the team (for example 4 students as opposed to 8).
An all-female team may be awarded the ArbitralWomen President’s Bursary if the other requirements are met.
Nothing in this Policy prevents a team, which has already received funding in one year, from applying in future years. The Board shall treat each application on its merits and in relation to other applications received for that particular year.
The Board shall effect payment to the final payee rather than directly to the team. In the event the team for any reason cannot participate, the Board at its sole option may request a refund from the organising authority, may request the organising authority to apply the funds to assist another team in that year, or may request that the funds be used to pay for another team in the following year.
Funding will, in the first instance, be sought from external sponsors, who shall be identified and introduced to the sponsored team(s). Further funding by ArbitralWomen itself in any given year will be contingent upon the existence and maintenance of sufficient funds in the account of ArbitralWomen. Each year, the Board will decide the number of awards to be given in that year. Nothing in this Policy obliges the Board to provide funding in any given year.
Although the ArbitralWomen Moot Bursaries are limited to payment of the registration fee, as mentioned above, there is nothing to prevent the chosen sponsors from providing additional assistance to the teams assigned as their "fundee", but any such arrangement will be made directly between the sponsor and the applicable team.
