Trey Childress and Blair Shepherd will speak on a panel as part of the Conference on Emerging Issues in International Arbitration, which is hosted by Duke University School of Law’s Centre for International and Comparative Law.
Trey will discuss his thought paper on The Geopolitics of Arbitral Award Enforcement while Blair will discuss his thought paper on New Frontiers for Energy Disputes Following Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Long-Term Gas and LNG Contracts.
Trey and Blair will speak alongside fellow panellists Bo Rutledge and Mike Losco, with Prof Tim Meyer moderating the panel.
The conference will take place on Friday 13 February at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
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ABOUT TREY CHILDRESS
Trey is Of Counsel based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation, public international law, and private international law (conflict of laws). Trey has briefed and argued cases as counsel before the International Court of Justice and courts throughout the United States, including the United States Supreme Court. He has also consulted as an expert on various matters before international arbitral tribunals and courts outside of the United States.Trey is a tenured professor of law at the Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law, where his scholarship and teaching focuses on international arbitration and litigation.
ABOUT BLAIR SHEPHERD
Blair is an associate in the Paris office. He has experience in a variety of international commercial arbitrations under several institutional rules in industries including energy, concessions, automotive, and construction. He also has experience in investor-State arbitration, as well as in advising States and non-governmental organisations on matters of public international law, with a focus on human rights and national security.
Blair has made numerous appearances in the New Zealand courts, including the High Court, and was the sole solicitor acting on a two-year bifurcated commercial arbitration, with favourable awards upheld on appeal. His note, “Cutting Submarine Cables: The Legality of the Use of Force in Self-Defense” was published in the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, and he has been a recurring New Zealand contributor to the World Bank’s “Women, Business and the Law” reports.