First-class year for the Alternative Dispute Resolution Society: Gold Trophy and Professional Development Award Winners for their excellent, numerous and diverse opportunities.
The Queen Mary Students’ Union (SU) has recently awarded the Queen Mary Alternative Dispute Resolution Society the highly sought Gold Trophy and Professional Development Award 2020/21. The awards reflect the outstanding and highly qualitative work the society delivered this year which resulted in a wide range of invaluable opportunities for the Queen Mary law and business students.
In February, the society welcomed Ms Claudia Salomon, President of the ICC, International Court of Arbitration, and Professor Malaguti, President of UNIDROIT, who discussed with a high number of attendees about their career path, expertise and experience. The society is proud to have provided for the first-time ever at Queen Mary such an opportunity to learn from Presidents of such renowned international institutions.
At the same time, ADR Society ensured that students benefitted from a mix of panel discussions and workshops (academic and practical) with reputable arbitrators and professionals from international law firms, including:
The ADR Society is proud to have partnered with international law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) for the BCLP x Queen Mary Annual Commercial Negotiations Competition (in collaboration with ELSA, and Law and Business Society), already the competition’s third edition.
The competition welcomed 120 students, included six qualification rounds, and 14 hours of negotiation workshops with BCLP, Lawson Conner (part of IQ-EQ) and The Negotiation Club, the participants being judged by solicitors, trainees, legal managers, arbitrators, academics, including BCLP M&A Partner Richard Werner, and world-renowned arbitrator Professor Loukas Mistelis.
The top negotiators represented Queen Mary at six international and national mediation and negotiation competitions, the Queen Mary team actually winning the CPR International Mediation Competition and qualifying in the semi-finals of CPR and RMLNLU – 2 Temple Gardens (mediator category) and quarter-finals RMLNLU – 2TG (negotiator category).
As a result of our values: innovation, interdisciplinarity and practicality, this year we launched three other remarkable projects:
The Leadership Team would like to express tremendous gratitude to our committee members who have worked tirelessly to ensure ADR Society provides these excellent opportunities, our members without whom our society would not exist, as well as partner law firms and organisations, in particular BCLP, partner law societies, and the judges in the BCLP Negotiation Competition.
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