Kaplan Lecture

Kaplan Lecture

In 2007, a lecture series in honour of Neil Kaplan was inaugurated. The Kaplan Lecture is delivered each year in Hong Kong. These lectures are organised by the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre to mark the substantial achievements of Neil Kaplan in the field of international arbitration and his contribution to the development of arbitration in Hong Kong.

2007
Neil Kaplan – Inaugural Lecture

2008
Michael Hwang SC – Defining the Indefinable: Practical Problems of Confidentiality in Arbitration

2009
Professor Michael Pryles – When is an Arbitration Agreement Waived?

2010
Toby Landau QC – Tainted Memories: Exposing the Fallacy of Witness Evidence in International Arbitration

2011
Lord Justice Bernard Rix – The Importance of being Competent

2012
Lucy Reed – Tribunal Decision-Making: Art, Science, Sport?

2013
The Honourable James Spigelman AC QC – Issues in Contractual Interpretation: A Comparative Perspective

2014
The Honourable L. Yves Fortier, PC, CC, OQ, QC – Arbitrators, Corruption and the Poetic Experience: When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

2015
David D Caron – Light and Dark in International Arbitration: The Virtues, Risks and Limits of Transparency

2016
V.V. Veeder QC – Lessons for the Future from the Past: Individual Hedgehogs and Institutional Foxes

2017
Donald Donovan – Reexamining the Legal Expert in International Arbitration

2018
Christopher Greenwood – Is the age of Arbitration in international law drawing to a close