The 21th International Congress of Maritime Arbitrators (ICMA XXI), is scheduled to be held in Rio, Brazil from 8-13 March 2020. Kindly invited by the Chair of the Topics & Agenda Committee, Mr. Daniella Horton, professor Chu has joined the Committee as an ambassador to the maritime arbitration community in China.
The task of the Committee is to be responsible for encouraging submission of papers, suggesting topical maritime subjects for discussion, approving the papers to be presented and ultimately setting the agenda for the event. In around May this year, the Committee will make a formal Call for papers. As the Committee member, professor Chu will be happy to promote the Congress in Chinese community and to encourage submission of papers, initially in summary form, for the Committee’s subsequent consideration for inclusion in the working programme. In addition, professor Chu will be invited to chair and moderate a session at the Congress.
ICMA is a very important forum in the field of maritime arbitration in which maritime arbitrators, lawyers, scholars and shipping industry will deliberate on and exchange views and news of professional interest. The series of conferences of ICMA are held every 2 or 3 years in the spirit of a joint effort to promote maritime arbitration all over the world. Professor Chu has attended several conferences of ICMA and was the member of the Topics & Agenda Committee for ICMA XX (held in September of 2017, Denmark) where he also spoke in the first session on “The Impetus and Impediment in Amending China’s Arbitration Law 1995”.
