Professor Bjorklund to Serve as Adviser on ALI Arbitration Project

Professor Andrea K. Bjorklund has been asked to serve as an adviser for the American Law Institute's project to develop a Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration.  The first meeting of the project advisers will be in Philadelphia on January 29-30, 2010.

The ALI project will restate the American law of international commercial arbitration, covering, among other topics, arbitration agreements; conduct of and the judicial role in international arbitral proceedings in the United States; awards; recourse from and enforcement of international arbitral awards rendered in the United States; the judicial role in international arbitral proceedings abroad; enforcement of international arbitral awards rendered abroad; the preclusive effect of international arbitral awards; and ICSID Convention arbitration.

Andrea Bjorklund is a professor at the UC Davis School of Law.  Her research focuses on international investment disputes, and she has published widely in that area, with articles in the Virginia Journal of International Law, the American Review of International Arbitration, and the Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law, among others.