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Remarks by Lucy Reed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2022

Extract

Thank you, Catherine, for your kind welcome, and for your calm and inspirational leadership of the Society through troubled times. I thank all for attending this Lecture in two dimensions.

Type
Ninth Annual Charles N. Brower Lecture Crisis Cases: Not Reconceiving International Dispute Resolution
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law.

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Footnotes

The Charles N. Brower Lecture on International Dispute Resolution was given at 12:00 p.m., Friday, March 26, 2021. The speaker was Lucy Reed, Independent Arbitrator.

References

1 Sir Daniel Bethlehem, Eighth Annual Charles N. Brower Lecture on International Dispute Resolution, The Greening of International Dispute Settlement? Stepping Back a Little, ASIL Proc. 225 (2020).

2 Id.

3 Id. at 232–33

4 Id. at 234.

5 Id.

6 Id.

7 Eleanor Tyler, Analysis: COVID-19 Litigation Pending, Poised to Boom, Bloomberg Law (May 11, 2020), at http://bloomberglaw.com.

8 Expecting a Claims Bill North of $100 Billion Due to Coronavirus, Lloyd's of London CEO Says, CNBC (May 14, 2020), at https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/05/14/coronavirus-claims-bill-will-be-over-100-billion-lloyds-of-london.html; Paige Long, Litigation Funding Demand Rises as Pandemic Suits Percolate, Law360 (Nov. 6, 2020), at https://www.law360.com/articles/1326533/litigation-funding-demand-rises-as-pandemic-suits-percolate.

9 David Fidler, COVID-19 and International Law: Must China Compensate Countries for the Damage?, Just Security (Mar. 27, 2020), at http://justsecurity.org/69394/covid-19-and-international-law-must-china-compensate-countries-for-the-damage.

10 Peter Zheng, Taking China to the International Court of Justice Over COVID-19, EJIL:Talk! (Apr. 2, 2020), at http://www.ejiltalk.org/taking-china-to-the-international-court-of-justice-over-COVID-19.

11 Constantine Partasides QC, Legal Solutions for a Post-pandemic Economic Recovery, GlobalWonks (May 28, 2020), at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2QXOxq9Kgw.

12 Yvette Ostolaza, Daniel Driscoll & Tayler Green, What Spanish Flu-Era Contract Fights Tell Us About Pandemics and Contract, Law.com (Apr. 1, 2020) at https://www.law.com/litigationdaily/2020/04/01/what-spanish-flu-era-contract-fights-tell-us-about-pandemics-and-contractual-performance.

13 British Institute of International and Comparative Law, “Breathing Space” – Concept Note 1 on the Effect of the Pandemic on Commercial Contracts (Apr. 27, 2020), available at https://www.biicl.org/documents/10694_concept_note_1_on_the_effect_of_the_pandemic_on_commercial_contracts_bd.pdf.

14 Letter from Benjamin Franklin to May Hewson, January 27, 1783, in The Essential Benjamin Franklin: The Federalist Papers Project (Steve Straub ed.), available at https://www.thefederalistpapers.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Essential-Benjamin-Franklin-Quotes.pdf.

15 Van Vechten Veeder, Inaugural Charles N. Brower Lecture on International Dispute Resolution, The Historical Keystone to International Arbitration: The Party-Appointed Arbitrator – From Miami to Geneva, ASIL Proc. 387 (2013).

16 Id. at 401–02 (emphasis in original).

17 Id. at 394.

18 Id. at 395.

19 Id.

20 Thomas Buergenthal, Arbitrating Entitlement to Dormant Bank Accounts, 15 ICSID Rev. - FILI 301 (2001); Lucy Reed, Arbitration Principles in Resolving Holocaust Bank Claims, in PCA Peace Palace Papers: Institutional and Procedural Aspects of Mass Claims Settlement Systems 59 (2000).

21 International Organization for Migration, Property Restitution and Compensation: Practices and Experiences of Claims Programs 35 (Norbert Wühler & Heike Niebergall eds., 2008). See also Lucy Reed, Mixed Private and Public International Law Solutions to International Crises, 306 Recueil des Cours 177 (2005).

22 ICHEIC, About ICHEIC, at https://icheic.ushmm.org/about.html.

23 Kenneth Feinberg, Final Report of the Special Master for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund 2001, at 3 (U.S. Department of Justice 2004), at https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=450410.

24 John Collier & Vaughan Lowe, The Settlement of Disputes in International Law: Institutions and Procedures 1 (1999).

25 For reference, see the book project of the Centre for International Law of the National University of Singapore: The Timor-Leste/Australia Conciliation: A Victory for UNCLOS and Peaceful Settlement of Disputes (Hao Duy Phan, Tara Davenport & Robert Beckman eds., 2019).

26 Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, PCA, at https://pca-cpa.org/en/cases/71. The EECC Awards and Decisions are summarized in: Permanent Court of Arbitration Summaries of Awards 1999–2009 (Belinds Macmahon & Fedelma Claire Smith eds., 2010).

27 William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 3, sc. 2.

28 Property Restitution and Compensation, supra note 21.

29 J.G. Merrills, International Dispute Settlement 62–64 (6th ed. 2017).

30 Jean-Pierre Cot, Conciliation, in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, para. 5 (2015).

31 Merrills, supra note 29, at 64.

32 Id. at 67.

33 David D. Caron, Fifth Annual Charles N. Brower Lecture on International Dispute Resolution, The Multiple Functions of International Courts and the Singular Task of the Adjudicator, ASIL Proc. 231 (2020).

34 Id. at 234.

35 Id. at 235.

36 Id. at 236.

37 Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Dem. Rep. Congo v. Rwanda), Declaration of Judge Buergenthal to the Order of the Court, 2002 ICJ Rep. 257, 257 (July 10)