2024: Disaster, Disruption & Resilience

14 November 2024

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

49 Park Lane, London W1K 1PS

Programme

14 November 2024

9:00: Registration

9:30: Welcome

9:40: Keynote [Video]

Justice Philip Jeyaretnam—President of the Singapore International Commercial Court

Chair

Steven Finizio—Partner, WilmerHale

10:30: Disaster & Disruption [Video]

Dr Nicole Foster—University of the West Indies, Head, Law & Health Research Unit

Dr Claudia Santos—Consultant / Disaster Responder

Dr Jean-Pierre Gauci—Arthur Watts Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Director of the People for Change Foundation

12:30: Lunch Break

13:30: Panel II: Disruptor & Disaster Resilience [Video]

Dr Nicole Pierce—Goldsmith University of London & Deputy Director, Institute of Small and Micro States, Silver economy

Dr Alina Holzhausen—Research Fellow in Public International Law, and Climate Change, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Protection of intangible cultural property in climate policies

14:30: Coffee Break

15:00: Keynote

Professor Rachel Cahill-O’Callaghan—University of Cardiff

Chair

Professor Petra Butler—Director, Institute of Small and Micro States & Executive Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Canterbury

15:45: Panel III: Dispute Resolution as Disruptor and Resilience Measure [Video]

Franz Schwarz—Partner, WilmerHale

Professor Petra Butler—Director, Institute of Small and Micro States & Executive Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Canterbury Dispute Resolution as a Resilience Mechanism

Ashique Rahman—Partner, Saadeh Rahman

17:00: Closing Panel

Drinks Reception