The International Dispute Resolution Committee of the D.C. Bar International Law Section, the D.C. Bar Litigation Section, the Washington Foreign Law Society and the Institute for Transnational Arbitration presented a lunchtime program on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 addressing what may very well be the wave of the future in international dispute resolution – mass claims.
The topic of international mass and collective claims has finally reached critical temperature – U.S. class actions with an international component, mass claims in other national courts like Germany, collective claims before international tribunals (such as the ad hoc Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission and the mass claims investment treaty arbitration Abaclat et al v. Republic of Argentina) and specially-crafted compensation programs like the Deepwater Horizon Gulf Coast Claims Facility.
Attendees heard from a panel of three hands-on participants at the cutting edge of these developments; Carolyn Lamm, John R. Crook and Prof. S.I. (Stacie) Strong.
