Student Article Competition

2020/21 Student Writing Competition: REGISTRATION CLOSED

CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF ARBITRATORS NEW YORK BRANCH INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION Student ARTICLE COMPETITION

REGISTRATION CLOSED

COMPETITION OVERVIEW

The New York Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators is pleased to announce the CIArb NY Branch International Arbitration Student Article Competition (the “Competition”). The Competition is open only to qualified law students (see below).  It will award up to 2 cash honoraria for the best publishable articles in the area of international arbitration.

THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF ARBITRATORS

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (the “Institute”), a hundred-year-old Royal Chartered charity in the United Kingdom, is an international organization devoted to promoting excellence in the practice and profession of alternative dispute resolution. Globally and from its London headquarters, the Institute provides education and training for arbitrators, mediators, and adjudicators. It also acts as a global hub for practitioners, policymakers, academics, and the business community. The Institute supports the global promotion, facilitation, and development of all ADR methods.

The Institute offers a range of resources including guidance, advice, networking, and promotional opportunities, as well as facilities for hearings, meetings, and other events. The Institute offers free student membership and has an active Young Members Group (YMG).  See www.ciarb.org.

The Institute’s growing membership of 16,000 is based across 133 countries and supported by an international network of 39 branches. One of those branches, the CIArb NY Branch, a not-for-profit corporation whose territory consists of the States of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, is the sponsor of this Competition. The membership of the CIArb NY Branch includes many of the leading arbitrators, mediators, academics, and practicing attorneys in the Branch’s territory. The CIArb NY Branch sponsors, in addition to this Competition, conferences, networking events, and educational courses (including an annual one-week course on international arbitration) and supports local YMG events.  

COMPETITION 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

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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

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INQUIRIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO: writingcompetition@ciarbny.org

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REGISTRATION CLOSED

March 30, 2020

The CIArb NY Branch is pleased to announce that Lim Siyang Lucas is the winner of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators New York Branch 2019/20 International Arbitration Writing Competition. 

This marks the second 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.

Mr. Lucas’ article was selected by a distinguished panel of judges comprised of arbitrators Jennifer Kirby of KIRBY, Daniel Schimmel of Foley Hoag LLP, and Marc J. Goldstein of MJG Arbitration & Mediation, 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 Mr. Lucas, an LLM student at New York University School of Law (Class of 2020), for his article, “Rules of Procedure and the Blurred Lines of the 1958 New York Convention.”  Mr. Lucas’ article tackles the problems that can arise under Article III of the Convention, which calls upon Contracting States to enforce arbitral awards in accordance with their own ‘rules of procedure.’  Describing his piece as “thoughtful and rigorous,” the judges commended Mr. Lucas for suggesting “a way forward that is as practical as it is innovative.”

In addition to being awarded a cash prize, Mr. Lucas’ 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.

The Competition Committee Richard L. Mattiaccio, FCIArb., C.Arb. , NY Branch Chair Stephanie Cohen, FCIArb, NY Branch Vice-Chair

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CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF ARBITRATORS NEW YORK BRANCH INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION Student ARTICLE COMPETITION

COMPETITION OVERVIEW

The New York Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators is pleased to announce the CIArb NY Branch International Arbitration Student Article Competition (the “Competition”). The Competition is open only to qualified law students (see below).  It will award up to 3 cash honoraria for the best publishable articles in the area of international arbitration.

THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF ARBITRATORS

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (the “Institute”), a hundred-year-old Royal Chartered charity in the United Kingdom, is an international organization devoted to promoting excellence in the practice and profession of alternative dispute resolution. Globally and from its London headquarters, the Institute provides education and training for arbitrators, mediators, and adjudicators. It also acts as a global hub for practitioners, policymakers, academics, and the business community. The Institute supports the global promotion, facilitation, and development of all ADR methods.

The Institute offers a range of resources including guidance, advice, networking, and promotional opportunities, as well as facilities for hearings, meetings, and other events. The Institute offers free student membership and has an active Young Members Group (YMG).  See www.ciarb.org.

The Institute’s growing membership of 16,000 is based across 133 countries and is supported by an international network of 39 branches. One of those branches, the CIArb NY Branch, a not-for-profit corporation whose territory consists of the States of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, is the sponsor of this Competition. The membership of the CIArb NY Branch includes many of the leading arbitrators, mediators, academics, and practicing attorneys in the Branch’s territory. The CIArb NY Branch sponsors, in addition to this Competition, conferences, networking events, and educational courses (including an annual one-week course on international arbitration) and supports local YMG events.  

PDF Annoucement Competition Rules

COMPETITION 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 the completed registration form at ciarbny.org no later than February 4, 2020;

• be and remain unpublished and not submitted for publication as of the submission date and through the prize announcement and through November 30, 2020;

• 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 2019/20 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 2020. 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 three articles, as follows:

• First prize: $5,000

• Second prize: $3,000

• Third prize: $2,000.

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 (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, 2020, 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 August 19, 2019

March 28, 2019

The CIArb NY Branch is pleased to announce that Fabio Nunez del Prado and April Lacson are the first and second-place prize winners, respectively, of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators New York Branch 2018/19 International Arbitration Student Article Competition. 

This marks the first time that the CIArb NY Branch has held a student writing competition with the goal of establishing it as an annual 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. 

The winners were selected by a distinguished panel of judges comprised of Paul D. Friedland of White & Case LLP, Jean E. Kalicki of Kalicki Arbitration, and Nancy M. Thevenin of Thevenin Arbitration & ADR, each of whom is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute and a member of the CIArb NY Branch.

First place, which includes a cash prize of $5000, is being awarded to Mr. Nunez del Prado, an LLM student at Yale University (Class of 2019), for his article, “Hatches and Tantrums: The Behavioral and Political Foundation of Setting Aside in International Arbitration.”  The judges found that Mr. Nunez del Prado’s article offers an “original, fun, and daring cross-disciplinary approach” to addressing the “paradox” of award set asides, and commend his piece as a “terrific essay starting with its title and extending to its tone and substance.” 

Institute President Halket presents NY Branch 2019 Student Article First Prize to Fabio Nunez del Prado Chavez (Yale LLM 2019): Competition Co-Chairs Stephanie Cohen and Richard Mattiaccio look on.

Second place, which includes a cash prize of $3000, is being awarded to Ms. April Lacson, an LLM Student at New York University School of Law (Class of 2019), for her article, “Final and Binding: Towards a Transnational Theory of Issue Preclusion for International Arbitral Awards.”  According to the judges, Ms. Lacson submitted a “well-researched essay” which “courageously propos[ed] the creation of transnational autonomous rules for issue preclusion of international awards.”

Institute President Halket presents Student Article Second Prize to April Lacson (NYU); Competition co-chairs Cohen and Mattiaccio applaud

The winning articles will be considered for 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 valuable time.

Richard L. Mattiaccio, FCIArb C Arb, NY Branch Chair Stephanie Cohen, FCIArb, NY Branch Vice Chair The Competition Committee

RULES:

CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF ARBITRATORS NEW YORK BRANCH 2018/19 INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION WRITING COMPETITION RULES

I.  COMPETITION SUMMARY

The 2018/19 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 2018/19 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 the 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 (TMR), double-spaced for main text and 12-point TMR, single-spaced for footnotes;
  • Have sequentially numbered footnotes, and no end notes; 
  • Be submitted both as a PDF and 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 4, 2019;
  • Be and remain unpublished and unsubmitted for publication as of September 30, 2019, 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 2019. 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 three articles, as follows:

  • First prize:       $5,000
  • Second prize:    $3,000 
  • Third prize:      $2,000. 

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 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 the 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 August 3, 2018, these Rules shall govern.

Date: September 25, 2018

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