Reimagining Remedy: The view from the bench

Mr. Rivkin is an independent arbitrator affiliated with Arbitration Chambers in New York, London and Hong Kong. For more than 40 years, Mr. Rivkin practiced private and public international law at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where he served as Co-Chair of its International Dispute Resolution Group for more than 20 years and was a founder of its Business Integrity/ESG Group. He now serves as a full-time arbitrator and mediator focusing on complex international commercial arbitrations and investor-state disputes. Mr. Rivkin has long been recognized as a global leader in international arbitration. Chambers Global 2022 identified him as one of the top 10 arbitration practitioners worldwide. Chambers publications have described him as “the best arbitration practitioner anywhere” and “a true giant in the field, whose depth of knowledge is incredible.” In 2015-16, Mr. Rivkin served as President of the International Bar Association. whose membership includes more than 100,000 members and 200 bar associations. He was the first American to serve in that position in 25 years. As IBA President, he focused on issues such as judicial integrity, business and human rights, climate justice, human trafficking, corruption, and the independence of the legal profession. He previously served in the IBA as chair of the Legal Practice Division, which includes more than 50 substantive committees, and of the Committee on Arbitration and ADR. He currently serves as a Trustee of eyeWitness to Atrocities, which the IBA launched while he was President. In addition, Mr. Rivkin has held prominent positions in arbitration institutions, government committees and other NGOs across the world. He worked on initial government efforts to encourage alternative dispute resolution under NAFTA and advised on negotiations to create a worldwide judgments convention, US sanctions policy and nuclear deterrence. He has served in leadership positions in arbitration institutions on virtually every continent. Currently, he is the Co-Chair of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre and on the Council of the International Council for Arbitration in Sport and the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration, and on the Court of the MCCI Mediation and Arbitration Centre in Mauritius. He is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute, for which he is an advisor to the Restatement of the Law of International Arbitration, and a councillor to the Restatement of Foreign Relations Law. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Climate Law Initiative. He also serves on the Boards of the Human Trafficking Legal Center and the James Beard Foundation. For a more complete description of experience, see https://arbchambers.com/arbitrators/david-w-rivkin?lang=en.

Maria Pia is a Senior Advisor at Pillar Two, an advisory firm specialised in business and human rights. Prior to joining Pillar Two, she worked as Senior Legal Advisor at the International Bar Association (IBA) Legal Policy & Research Unit where she managed the IBA’s policy, training and research projects on business and human rights and corporate integrity. Most recently, she worked as Senior Legal Advisor at the Italian law firm, RP Legal & Tax, advising Italian and international corporate clients on ESG and business and human rights. Maria Pia holds a PhD in Law and Economics from Erasmus University (Rotterdam), an LLM in Law and Economics from the University of Bologna and a Bachelor of Law with Distinction from LUISS Guido Carli (Rome). She is an officer of the IBA’s Business and Human Rights Committee, secretary and board member of Australia Italy Business Association and board member of Human Rights International Corner, a non-governmental organisation specialised in business and human rights.

One of Canada's most respected judges and advocates, the Honourable Ian Binnie served for nearly 14 years as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Ian authored more than 170 opinions on many aspects of constitutional, aboriginal, criminal, commercial and administrative law. Over the course of three decades as a litigator, he argued cases in most of the common law provinces and appeared regularly before the Supreme Court on a range of constitutional, civil and criminal matters.