NLSIU-SIAC Annual Arbitration Lecture 2025 | “Five Things You Think You Know About Arbitration, But You Don’t”

The National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru and Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) are organising the second edition of the Annual Arbitration Lecture on Saturday, April 26, 2025, from 9.30 to 10.30 am. The venue of the lecture is Bangalore International Centre.

This year, we have Ms. Lucy Reed, a preeminent arbitrator and scholar speaking on: “Five Things You Think You Know About Arbitration, But You Don’t.”

This event is open to the public. Please note if you are outside of the NLS community, it is mandatory to register for the event. Kindly RSVP here.

About the Speaker

Lucy Reed is the President of the Court of Arbitration, Singapore International Arbitration Centre. Reed, an independent arbitrator with Arbitration Chambers (New York), is also the immediate past President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA). She retired in 2016 from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where she led the global international arbitration group from the New York, Hong Kong and Singapore offices, and then was Professor of Practice and Director of the Centre for International Law at NUS through 2019.

In addition to practicing international commercial and investment treaty arbitration, she served as an arbitrator on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission (a humanitarian law/Geneva Convention claims commission), co-director of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland (a Holocaust claims tribunal) and, while with the US State Department, the US Agent to the Iran-US Claims Tribunal.

Reed, a member of the US Council on Foreign Relations, is a former President of the American Society of International Law. She was educated at the University of Chicago Law School and Brown University.

Please note:

• All press/media invitees who are interested to cover the talk are requested to please carry their ID cards.