April 29, 2021
The CIArb NY Branch is pleased to announce that Nika Madyoon is the winner of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators New York Branch 2020/21 International Arbitration Writing Competition.
This marks the third year that the New York Branch has held a student writing competition, which it plans to hold annually as a Spring semester event open to full-time students at law schools located in the CIArb NY Branch territory consisting of the States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Ms. Madyoon’s article was selected by a distinguished panel of judges comprised of arbitrators the Honorable Faith S. Hochberg (ret.), Steven H. Reisberg of Chaffetz Lindsey LLP, and David C. Singer of SingerADR Neutral Services, each of whom is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute and member of the New York Branch.
A cash prize of $5000 is being awarded to Ms. Madyoon, a JD student at Columbia Law School (Class of 2021), for her article, “Virtual Hearings in International Arbitration: Challenges, Solutions, and Threats to Enforcement.” The judges remarked:
“Whether one calls it a ‘video hearing,’ a ‘remote hearing,’ or a ‘live: remote access’ hearing, this article is a thoughtful, sophisticated, and comprehensive review of issues related to the use of video hearings in arbitration. The article reflects extensive research and contains citations to a wide variety of sources, which will be of benefit to those who want to delve deeper into the literature. Very well written and well worthy of publication.”
In addition to being awarded a cash prize, Ms. Madyoon’s article will be considered for potential inclusion in a forthcoming Chartered Institute publication.
The CIArb NY Branch thanks all students who submitted articles and the competition judges for the generous contribution of their time.
Stephanie Cohen, FCIArb, NY Branch Chair
Download PDFCOMPETITION SUMMARY
To be eligible for submission to the Competition, an article must:
• be scholarly and on a topic of the participant’s choice related to international commercial or investment arbitration;
• be in English and otherwise comply with Competition format requirements;
• be no less than 3000 words and no longer than 6000 words, including all footnotes;
• be received with completed registration form at ciarbny.org no later than February 9, 2021;
• be and remain unpublished and not submitted for publication as of the submission date and through the prize announcement and through November 30, 2021;
• be available for publication by the Chartered Institute as set forth below.
The Competition is open to all JD, LLM and JSD students who are enrolled full-time for the 2020/21 academic year at any ABA-accredited law school located in the CIArb NY Branch’s territory (i.e., in New York State, New Jersey or Connecticut). Participants must submit evidence that they meet the foregoing qualifications before receiving any honorarium.
Each participant must work independently in the research, drafting, revision and editing of the participant’s submission, and the work product must be original. Participants may submit only one article and may compete in only one Competition. All participants must comply with all Competition rules and deadlines. If any application is submitted in an incomplete or untimely manner, the submission will not be accepted for consideration in the Competition. There is no financial charge to participate in the Competition.
The judges for each Competition will be CIArb Fellows selected by the CIArb NY Branch. The decision of the judges will be final, binding and not subject to reconsideration or appeal of any kind. Scoring will not be disclosed for any reason. The results of the Competition will be announced in April 2021. Awards will only be made for articles judged to be scholarly and of publishable quality. If a sufficient number of publishable articles are deemed by the judges to have been submitted, awards will be made for the top two articles, as follows:
• First prize: $5,000
• Second prize: $3,000
As a condition of receiving any such honorarium, each prize winner must: (i) agree that the Institute shall have the option, but not the obligation, to publish the winner’s article, subject to any publisher’s edits, (ii) submit the article to the Institute, pursuant to the Institute’s instructions, for inclusion in a publication of the Institute’s choice, and include language pre-approved by the CIArbNY Branch recognizing the relationship between the article and the competition, and (iii) be responsible for all taxes on such honorarium. In order to be eligible for consideration for publication by the Institute, the article must be, at the time of submission and through November 30, 2021, unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Any other publication of the article shall include an appropriate legend pre-approved by the Institute or the CIArb NY Branch, stating the relationship between the article and the Competition.
New York, New York
September 30, 2020
CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF ARBITRATORS NEW YORK BRANCH 2020/21 INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION WRITING COMPETITION RULES
I. COMPETITION SUMMARY
The 2020/21 Chartered Institute of Arbitrators New York Branch Writing Competition (“Competition”) is a scholarly writing competition open to students engaged in the full-time study of law within the territory of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators New York Branch (“CIArb NY Branch”), as described below. Participation consists of the submission, in accordance with these Rules, of a scholarly article equivalent in scope and quality to a law review student note on a topic of the student’s choice directly related to international commercial or investor/state arbitration. There will be no financial charge to participate in the competition.
II. ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
The Competition is open only to JD, LLM and JSD students who are enrolled full-time for the 2020/21 academic year at any ABA-accredited law school located in the CIArb NY Branch’s territory (i.e., anywhere in the States of New York, New Jersey or Connecticut). Participants must represent that they meet the foregoing qualification at the time of submission of the article. Participants may submit only one article and may compete in only one Competition.
III. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
All participants must comply with all Competition rules and deadlines. If any Application is submitted in an incomplete or untimely manner, the submission will not be accepted for consideration in the Competition.
To be eligible for submission to the Competition, an article must:
- Be completely independent work of the participant and be original;
- Identify the author only on a cover page with no information other than the name and contact information of the author;
- Be on a topic materially related to international commercial or investment arbitration;
- Be in 14-point Times New Roman (TNR), double-spaced for main text and 12-point TNR, single-spaced for footnotes;
- Have sequentially numbered footnotes, and no endnotes;
- Be submitted in MS Word;
- Be not less than 3,000 words nor longer than 6,000 words, including all footnotes;
- Submit all citations in compliance with Blue Book form;
- Be submitted, uploaded with a completed registration form found only on the CIArb NY Branch website www.ciarbny.org (the “Website”), and be received in that manner no later than 11:59 p.m. on February 9, 2021;
- Be and remain unpublished and unsubmitted for publication as of November 30, 2021, unless released for publication sooner by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (“Chartered Institute” or “Institute”);
- Be available for publication by the Chartered Institute as set forth below.
IV. AWARDS
The results of the Competition will be announced in April 2021. Awards will only be made for articles that are judged to be of publishable quality. If a sufficient number of publishable articles are deemed by the judges to have been submitted, awards will be made for the top two articles, as follows:
- First prize: $5,000
- Second prize: $3,000
As a condition of receiving any award, each award recipient must: (a) agree that the Chartered Institute shall have the option, but not the obligation, to publish their article, subject to any publisher’s edits; (b) submit the article to the Chartered Institute, pursuant to the Institute’s instructions, for publication in a Chartered Institute publication of the Institute’s choice; and (c) be solely responsible for all taxes applicable to such award.
At the time of submission, the article must be unpublished and unsubmitted for publication in any other publication. Any publication permitted by the Chartered Institute or following the period in which Chartered Institute permission is required shall include an appropriate legend pre-approved by the Chartered Institute or by the CIArb NY Branch, stating the relationship between the article and the Competition.
V. THE COMPETITION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE AND JUDGES
The Competition will be administered by a Competition Organizing Committee (the “Committee”) consisting of CIArb NY Branch members. The Committee will appoint a panel of CIArb NY Branch members to serve as judges for the Competition. The scoring of the judges will be final subject only to verification by the Committee of the judges’ compliance with the Rules. The Committee will have discretion to replace any judge who, in the Committee’s judgment, for scheduling or other reasons, is unable to perform his/her duties in a timely manner.
The Committee, at its discretion, may revise these Rules and publish such revised Rules on the Website. Decisions made by the Committee shall be final, binding and non-appealable.
The CIArb NY Branch, at its discretion, may publish on the Website the titles of the winning articles, the names and law school affiliations of the authors and the prizes awarded.
In the event of any discrepancy between these Rules and any other communication, including the announcement of the Competition dated September 30, 2020, these Rules shall govern.
Date: September 30, 2020
Download PDF Announcement/RulesINQUIRIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO: writingcompetition@ciarbny.org
