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2016|The Politics of Arbitration
Panel 3 - Moderated by Professor Chris Drahozal
Hiro Aragaki, Loyola Law School - Los Angeles
Jeffrey Dasteel, UCLA School of Law
Patricia Shaughnessy, University of Stockholm School of Law
29-1-2016 1:30 PM
PROFESSOR HIRO ARAGAKI LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL, LOS ANGELES
Professor Hiro Aragaki joined the Loyola faculty in 2011. His scholarly interests cluster around the intersection of contract and procedure. He has written extensively on federal arbitration law and on interest-based dispute resolution in the public sphere. His work has appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Online, among others. His most recent work, Equal Opportunity for Arbitration, was selected for presentation in the Civil Litigation & Dispute Resolution category at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum. In 2011, he traveled to Dhaka, Bangladesh, to train judges and lawyers in mediation and to provide advice on the design of an effective court-connected ADR program.
Before coming to Loyola, Professor Aragaki was an assistant professor of law & ethics at Fordham University Graduate School of Business Administration in New York, where he taught courses on business law. Prior to that, he practiced law with international law firms, served as an arbitrator and mediator, and clerked for the Hon. Fern M. Smith, U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.).
Professor Aragaki is a member of the Roll of Solicitors in England & Wales. He is also a member of the State Bar of California, the District of Columbia and New York.
PROFESSOR JEFFREY DASTEEL UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW
Professor Jeffrey Dasteel teaches International Commercial Arbitration. Professor Dasteel earned his J.D.cum laude from Loyola Law School in 1983, where he was Ninth Circuit editor for the Loyola Law Review. Professor Dasteel has been a mediator and arbitrator in domestic and international matters since 2009 and is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He retired as a litigation and international arbitration partner from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in 2008. He serves as co-chair of the ADR Committee of the Litigation Section of the California State Bar, is a member of the Executive Committee of the North American Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and is the co-chair of the Southwest Arbitration Subcommittee for the United States Council for International Business and former member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration.
DR. PATRICIA SHAUGHNESSY UNIVERSITY OF STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF LAW
Dr. Patricia Shaughnessy, (J.D., LL.M., S.J.D.) is a member of the board of directors of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) and has been an active member of SCC committees responsible for drafting the revision of the SCC Rules in 2007 and 2010, including the new Emergency Arbitrator Rules. She has also served as the articles editor of the Stockholm International Arbitration Review. Dr. Shaughnessy is also a member of the board and the chair of the Arbitration Section of the Stockholm Center for Commercial Law. She has acted as an arbitrator in international commercial disputes and as a consultant, she has led numerous projects and carried out assignments related to commercial dispute resolution for organizations such as the World Bank, the European Commission, SIDA, and USAID in a number of countries.
She is the supervisor of the Master of International Commercial Arbitration Law Program at Stockholm University and also teaches and researches in related fields. Prior to her academic career in Sweden, she spent 10 years as a practicing attorney in a U.S. law firm specialized in civil and commercial litigation, was an adjunct professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law, at the University of Hawaii, and a member of the Board of Continuing Education of the Hawaii Bar Association.
After obtaining an LL.M. in international comparative law at Stockholm University, she subsequently completed her legal science doctoral studies with a dissertation comparing the attorney-client privilege in U.S., Swedish and EU law. Following her doctoral studies, she served for one year as a U.S. Supreme Court judicial fellow and worked with the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C. She has been appointed a Senior Fulbright Specialist and has taught and held lectures at a number of universities.
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