Speaking engagements
We regularly speak at conferences and in law schools about topics relating to international arbitration and written and oral advocacy. Recent and upcoming examples include:
- Global Arbitration Review, GAR Live: London, Speaker on de novo review of arbitral awards, October 2023
- International Chamber of Commerce, 18th Annual ICC New York Conference on International Arbitration, September 2023, Opening Remarks
- International Association of Lawyers, Speaker on disputes under the United States—Mexico—Canada agreement (USMCA), Mexico City, September 2023
- World Arbitration Update, Enforcement of Arbitration Awards Outside the European Union, Tracing of Assets, Effective Strategies and New Technologies to Achieve Compliance
- The Best Practices of Multilingual Litigation, May 2023
- Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Conference on International Arbitration in the Mining Sector, March 8 and 9, 2023, Myriam was Co-Chair
- ARBANZA Escuela de Arbitraje, International Arbitration Conference, Lima, Peru
- 2nd Annual Viscount Bennett Roundtable on International Economic Law
- McGill Journal of Dispute Resolution Symposium
- Paris Arbitration Week, Pierre-Olivier moderated the panel "International organizations as users and providers of international arbitration".
- Arbitration and State Immunities: Transatlantic Perspectives, Pierre-Olivier participated in the panel as a speaker.
- Pierre-Olivier was a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Université de Sherbrooke, where he taught transnational law and the law of international organizations.
- Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Americas Initiative Dialogues, Speaker on ESG in arbitration in Latin America
- Osgoode Professional Development, Guest Lecturer, Investment Arbitration
- Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, V Congreso de Arbitraje Nacional y Internacional, Santa Marta, Colombia, Speaker on investment arbitration in the road infrastructure sector
- JURIS, Sixteenth Annual Investment Treaty Debate and Discussion, Washington DC, Speaker on denial of justice under investment protection treaties
- Global Arbitration Review, GAR Live New York, Speaker on updates to the ICSID Arbitration Rules
- CanArbWeek, ADR Institute of Canada, Speaker on becoming an arbitrator
- Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society, Gold Standard Course on Commercial Arbitration, Guest Lecturer
- Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society, Speaker on climate change disputes
- Mercosur Arbitration and Mediation Week, Speaker on third-party disputes funding
- ICC New York Conference on International Arbitration, Speaker
View more of our recent speaking engagements.
ICC Canada Arbitration Committee
Myriam is the immediate past Chair of the ICC Canada Arbitration Committee, Canada's main association for international arbitration practitioners and arbitrators. She was the Committee's Vice-Chair from 2020 to 2022 and its Chair from 2022 to 2024.
The Committee is Canada's liaison with the International Chamber of Commerce's International Court of Arbitration and the ICC Commission.
Articles
Arbitration Matters blog, which features Canadian court decisions relating to arbitration. Myriam is a regular contributor.
Myriam Seers, Ryan Pistorius and Sebastián Melo, Paper arguing against the proposition that "The Only Valid Basis for Treaty Claims Involving Judicial Action or Inaction is the Customary International Law Standard of Denial of Justice", JURIS Conferences LLC, 2023
Myriam Seers, Melody Burke and Emily Stewart, “Foreign Influenced? The Supreme Court of Canada’s Reliance on Foreign Jurisprudence”, Annual Review of Civil Litigation 2020 (see on SSRN)
