The XIII International Arbitration Readings in Memory of Academician Igor Pobirchenko will take place on 9 October 2026.
We warmly invite colleagues, arbitrators, members of the legal community, partners, and friends of the ICAC to join us for a dynamic professional dialogue on the latest trends in international commercial arbitration. The event will provide a platform to exchange practical insights and explore innovative approaches to resolving cross-border international disputes.
The theme of this year’s Readings is “Digital Transformation and Ethics in Arbitration: New Dimensions of Preserving Institutional Trust”. The conference agenda will feature two sessions:
Session I: The Ethical Architecture of International Arbitration
- Institutional trust in arbitration: emerging ethical challenges
- Arbitrators’ disclosure obligations: the limits of duty and reasonableness
- Achieving the objective at any cost? Rethinking ethical standards for party representatives
- The transformation of ethics in arbitration under the Influence of digitalisation and AI
Session II: International Arbitration in the Digital Age
- E-arbitration revisited: what is essential and what is merely cosmetic?
- Equality of parties and procedural balance of opportunities in the context of digitalisation
- Deepfakes, digital footprints, metadata, AI: is arbitration ready for the new reality of evidence?
- AI in arbitration: a driver of efficiency or a threat to trust?
Detailed information on the speakers and moderators of the event will be announced in due course.
