Four years ago, Catalina Goanta and I passed on the duties of managing the Maastricht Mediation Clinic to Nikki van Dijk and Kristien Festjens, who graciously took over the clinic's reigns. As various other engagements have taken up their time more recently, I've agreed to take back the management of the clinic.
With this transition, I've also decided to broaden the scope of the clinic from just focusing on mediation to something a bit broader: The result is the formation of the Maastricht Negotiation & Conflict Resolution Clinic. For our first event as the MNCRC (organized jointly with our International Business Law Course), we are honored to host Eva Chan, who was recently elected as the Co-Chair of the Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration. We are very grateful to have Eva share her experiences, not only as an Associate at Skadden Arps, but as someone who is now leading the immense knowledge network that is the Young ICCA.
The Young ICCA is an organization that is opening doors for early-career-practitioners and students to the world of international commercial arbitration through skills training workshops, mentoring programs, and assortment of other admirable efforts, which we hope many of our students at the Maastricht University Faculty of Law will sign up for (especially after Eva's talk).
The Young ICCA is an organization that is opening doors for early-career-practitioners and students to the world of international commercial arbitration through skills training workshops, mentoring programs, and assortment of other admirable efforts, which we hope many of our students at the Maastricht University Faculty of Law will sign up for (especially after Eva's talk).
Lastly, I would also like to extend my gratitude to Catalina, Nikki, Kristien, Mardoeka Christensen and Monique Benning (formerly with Stichting Trajekt), who made the MMC possible. I am also very thankful to all of the people who have participated in our events and clinical trainings over the last ten years. You know who you are. I hope that as we attempt to grow our MNCRC community, you will continue to be interested in our ongoings. Mahalo nui loa!