UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Catherine Rogers, professor of law and Paul and Marjorie Price Faculty Scholar at Penn State Law, has been appointed to the International Advisory Board of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC) for a four-year term. The Advisory Board includes a range of international experts from around the world, including many leaders from other international arbitration centers.
VIAC serves as a focal point for the settlement of commercial disputes in the regional and international community. Founded in 1975, VIAC is a permanent arbitral institution of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber and has administered over 1,500 proceedings since its inception, spanning Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Currently, VIAC has a caseload of 71 pending cases with an aggregated value of $1.22 billion.
In settling international disputes, VIAC’s arbitral proceedings are individually designed according to the parties’ requirements and meet the highest quality criteria. VIAC administers international cases involving at least one party with its place of business or normal residence outside of Austria or cases concerning disputes with an international character.
VIAC is also a sponsor of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, a renowned mock international arbitration competition held annually in Vienna, which draws roughly 300 teams and around 1,200 student advocates from law schools around the globe. In celebration of VIAC’s 40th anniversary, the VIAC rules will be the basis for the Vis problem in 2015-16.
VIAC’s International Advisory Board consists of international arbitration experts who assist the organization’s board in an advisory capacity.
About Catherine A. Rogers
Catherine A. Rogers is a professor of law at Penn State Law, and a professor of ethics, regulation, and the rule of law at Queen Mary, University of London, where she is also co-director of the Institute on Ethics & Regulation. Her scholarship focuses on the convergence of the public and private in international adjudication, and on the reconceptualization of the attorney as a global actor. Among other appointments, Rogers is a reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the U.S. Law (Third) of International Commercial Arbitration, one of the ICC Palestine’s delegated members of the Court of Arbitration for the Jerusalem Arbitration Center, and co-chair, together with William W. “Rusty” Park and Stavros Brekoulakis, of the ICCA-Queen Mary Task Force on Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration. She is the president and founder of Arbitrator Intelligence, a nonprofit entity aiming to increase transparency, fairness, and accountability in the arbitrator selection process.