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DESCRIPTION:Le professeur en droit des affaires Peer Zumbansen accueille la
  professeure de droit Shahla Ali pour exposé dans le cadre du cycle des Sé
 minaires sur les affaires et la société de 2021-2022. La professeure Shahl
 a Ali est doyenne associée (international) à la Faculté de droit de l'Univ
 ersité de Hong Kong et directrice du programme LLM en arbitrage et résolut
 ion des litiges. Son travail est centré sur les questions de gouvernance\,
  de développement et de résolution des conflits transfrontaliers dans la r
 égion Asie-Pacifique. Elle est arbitre bilingue (anglais/chinois) auprès d
 u CIETAC\, du HKIAC\, du KCAB et du SIAC.\n\nRésumé\n\n[En anglais seuleme
 nt] International commercial arbitration has long been subject of critique
  for unequal access to and participation in shaping the norms of this tran
 snational legal order.\n\nWhat can be learned from a success story in broa
 dening Asian state participation?\n\nHow might regional centres\, such as 
 the UN Commission on International Trade Law's Regional Centre for Asia an
 d the Pacific help level the playing field for legal practitioners in dive
 rse regions in terms of access to and contribution to the generation of no
 rms governing cross border dispute resolution?\n\nThématiques principales
 \n\n[En anglais seulement] The movement toward greater inclusivity in glob
 al soft law making is set out against a backdrop of historically uneven re
 presentation in global institutions. Calls to expand stakeholder participa
 tion has aimed at strengthening legitimacy through more inclusive represen
 tation and regional adaptation. An innovative effort to advance participat
 ion in soft law development began in 2012 with the establishment of the Un
 ited Nations Commission on International Trade Law (“UNCITRAL”) Regional C
 entre for Asia and the Pacific. As the first Centre of its kind\, it was c
 harged with coordinating with private and public institutions in the Asia 
 Pacific in the development\, interpretation and application of global cros
 s-border commercial and dispute settlement guidelines. The experience of t
 his Centre offers a window into what this seminar describes as a new form 
 of “Decentralized Transnational Legal Ordering.”\n\nThe study discussed he
 re and published by Edward Elgar in 2021\, Forming Transnational Dispute S
 ettlement Norms: Soft Law and the Role of the UNCITRAL Regional Centre for
  Asia and the Pacific\, tests the proposition that the presence of regiona
 l centres has the potential to expand participation in global soft law mak
 ing. It carries out a novel analysis of the influence of decentralized eng
 agement in overcoming representational deficits in the design of global so
 ft law pertaining to cross-border dispute settlement. It does this by comp
 aring the impact of two forms of engagement in the Asia-Pacific region\, t
 raditional ‘centralised’ engagement and the more recent ‘decentralised’ fo
 rm\, on the soft law-making process over a 10 year period. The former is c
 haracterised by formal intermittent participation in global deliberation p
 rocesses at UN headquarters through Working Group II (dispute resolution) 
 meetings prior to 2012\, and the latter characterized by informal\, locali
 sed and decentralised engagement facilitated through the regional centre a
 fter January 2012 when the UNCITRAL RCAP was established.\n\nThe studies k
 ey findings\, drawing on in-depth case studies\, a survey of 50 legal prac
 titioners involved in regional legal reform\, and empirical analysis of UN
 CITRAL working group participation logs suggest that regional centers such
  as the UNCITRAL Regional Centre for the Asia-Pacific while still in their
  early development\, have corresponded with the emergence of a new form of
  “decentralized transnational legal ordering” associated with growing regi
 onal engagement and participation in global soft law design. This is evide
 nced by a 63% increase in the frequency of Asia-Pacific regional input in 
 WG II meetings\, an 8% increase in official Asia-Pacific representation in
  the WG II\, a 6.2% increase in the number of observers from the Asia-Paci
 fic region\, and an average increase of 32% in perceived levels of engagem
 ent and participation amongst regional stakeholders over a 10-year period.
  Regional legal developments and innovations have likewise informed ongoin
 g global innovation in soft law making\, while inaugural localized and inc
 reasingly accessible intersession meetings have engaged a growing number o
 f practitioners in conversations about soft law design. The substantive fi
 ndings of this study\, alongside unique methodological contributions in th
 e design of a new set of indicators tracking regional participation\, prov
 ide useful insights supporting the expansion of regional centres in areas 
 with historically limited representation in global law making including fr
 om within Africa\, the Middle East and South America.\n	 \n\n \n
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LOCATION:Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/85095278959
SUMMARY:Advancing Global Stakeholder Representation Through Decentralized T
 ransnational Dispute Resolution: A View from the Asia Pacific
URL:/law/fr/channels/event/advancing-global-stakeholde
 r-representation-through-decentralized-transnational-dispute-resolution-33
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