The first edition of the Advanced Courses in Hong Kong focuses on the means and current practice of the settlement of international commercial and investment disputes.

For this special programme, the Secretary-General of The Hague Academy of International Law (Professor Jean-Marc Thouvenin) has invited leading academics and practitioners from Paris (Professor Diego P. Fernández Arroyo), New York (Professor Franco Ferrari), Bonn (Professor Matthias Weller), Singapore (Ms Natalie Morris-Sharma), and China (Judge Gao Xiaoli) to present expert lectures on ‘The United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation’, ‘Investor-State Dispute Settlement’, ‘International Commercial Arbitration’, ‘Settlement of International Disputes before Domestic Courts’, and ‘Latest Developments of Dispute Resolution in China’.

Registered participants will have pre-course access to an e-learning platform that provides reading materials prepared by the lecturers. A certificate of attendance will be awarded to participants with full attendance.