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Third-Party Funding In International Arbitration: The Icca Queen-Mary Task Force, William W. Park, Catherine A. Rogers
Third-Party Funding In International Arbitration: The Icca Queen-Mary Task Force, William W. Park, Catherine A. Rogers
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Third-party funding raises a host of ethical and procedural issues for international arbitration, perhaps most notably in connection with arbitrator comportment. The need for sustained study of these concerns prompted establishment of a Task Force on Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration, convened by the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) along with Queen Mary College at the University of London. The Task Force, comprised of stakeholders from a range of viewpoints and backgrounds, will assess both real and perceived concerns that this relatively new practice raises, as well as what might be done, and why. This article outlines the Task …
Professionalism: Rekindled, Reconsidered Or Reformulated?, Nancy J. Moore
Professionalism: Rekindled, Reconsidered Or Reformulated?, Nancy J. Moore
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It is increasingly commonplace for bar officials and others to decry what they see as a decline in "professionalism" among lawyers in recent years. For example, in 1984, former Chief Justice Warren Burger gave a speech to an ABA meeting in Las Vegas in which he chastised some members of the profession for taking their freedom to advertise as a "release from all professional restraints," as they use the "same modes of advertising as other commodities from mustard, cosmetics and laxatives to used cars.' 1 Catchy phrases, attractive well-dressed lawyers, and special rates on lossleader items are but some of …