Programme highlights

Over 3 days JAW will bring together expert speakers and practitioners to present the following programme and topics.

SADC

  • The AFSA SADC Alliance – a ground breaking initiative for Southern Africa
  • The future of investment protection in the SADC region: domestic courts, regional forums or international arbitration?

The African Continental
Free Trade Area

  • The role of dispute resolution in African trade and investment
  • Unpacking the investment protocol of AfCTA

Africa: Mining and
Climate Change

  • Arbitration as an enabler for African Energy Transition
  • Balancing progress and justice: Navigating the transition from Fossil fuels to REIPP’s
  • Arbitration and Mining in Africa: Managing commercial and political risks

Arbitrating in Africa

  • Africanisation of arbitration: Perspectives from Practitioners, Counsel and Arbitrators
  • Challenges and Strategies for enforcing awards in and against African States and State-owned entities

Humans versus
the Machine

  • The acid test: Did the humans write the JAW Moot Award or did the machine?
  • The Human Touch in Arbitration: Exploring AI policy challenges for AFT’s transformation goals in the legal profession
  • Technology into the future: from tape recording to arbitrator – how will technology shape arbitration

Arbitrators, Lawyers
& Experts

  • The chartered accountant, expert in a dispute, or arbitrator? Piercing the much-cherished qualification to find the real person behind it
  • How helpful are experts in arbitration?

Challenges in
International Arbitration

  • Integrity in international arbitration
  • But is it constitutional? The legality defence and arbitration
  • ESG: Fertile ground for disputes
  • Arbitrations an unwitting facilitator of corruption in Government?

The African Silk Road

  • The China-Africa Joint Arbitration Centres – an intercontinental partnership
  • Finding its footing – the experience of Chinese business in Southern Africa
  • Looking at international disputes in an evolving legal environment: Are African lawyers prepared!

The BRICS Road

  • The BRICS Road – where does it lead in the world of dispute resolution?
  • BRICS: Towards a dispute resolution mechanism: Unpacking the resolution of December 2023

General enquiries

+27 11 320 0600
+27 11 320 0533

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