CISG in International Arbitration

On the 40th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), SIAC and NYU Law jointly present a webinar to take stock of the impact of CISG on international arbitration. The panellists will examine how CISG applies in arbitration and how that differs from CISG’s application in courts, how economic hardship is treated under CISG, how arbitral awards have applied the substantive provisions of CISG, as well as CISG issues in setting aside applications before the Singapore courts.   Moderator: Mr Piyush Prasad, Associate Counsel, SIAC Panellists: Prof Gary F. Bell, Associate Professor; Director, LL.M. in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore Justice Francesco Cortesi, Judge, Italian Supreme Court Prof Franco Ferrari, Director, Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law, NYU School of Law Dr Friedrich Rosenfeld, Partner, Hanefeld Rechtsanwälte Prof Marco Torsello, Partner, ARBLIT Radicati di Brozolo Sabatini Benedettelli Torsello; Professor, School of Law, University of Verona Mr Alvin Yeo, SC, Member, SIAC Court of Arbitration; Chairman & Senior Partner, WongPartnership LLP