To celebrate International Women’s Day 2023, Careers in Arbitration, founded by ArbitralWomen Advisory Council Member Amanda Lee, launched its fourth annual International Women’s Day campaign.
Launched in 2019, Careers in Arbitration is a social media-based platform that promotes diversity in arbitration by sharing information about opportunities in the field of arbitration with a global audience. The platform is followed by more than 50,000 people.
This year, Careers in Arbitration focused on the career journeys of in-house counsel from a wide range of different industries and geographical locations, including women working in-house in academia, commodities, energy, food and beverages, healthcare, maritime insurance, mining, oil and gas, retail, shipping, and transportation, in addition to those serving as general counsel for arbitral institutions and chambers.
The campaign featured former ArbitralWomen Board member Alison Pearsall and ArbitralWomen members Patrycja Kolwas, Carola Rojas, and Nancy M. Thevenin, together with Müge Anber-Kontakis, Marina Baher Gaballah, Neval Berdibek, Nadya Berova, Gwendoline Brooker, Adwoa Ghartey-Tagoe Seymour, Claudia P. Gutiérrez Roca, Elizabeth Hincapié Hincapié, Sharon Lee-Thibault, Daniela Molina Trujillo, Cecilia Ndeti, Josephine Renee Osiro, Raven Schofield, Laura Starr, and Izabella Vergara-Arenas.
The posts are available on LinkedIn and will be featured on Careers in Arbitration’s website in the future. Search for the hashtag #CiAEquity to read the participants’ professional stories, discover how they embrace equity in their respective roles, benefit from their top tips for an in-house career in arbitration, and learn who inspires them.
Submitted by ArbitralWomen Advisory Board member Amanda J. Lee, Founder of Careers in 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.