We are pleased to announce a series of panels named ‘’Arbitration School’’, having been organized as Marmara University Faculty of Law, Department of Private International Law and İstanbul Arbitration Centre (ISTAC).  Within the scope of this project, we will discuss different dimensions of arbitration by gathering together with arbitration practitioners from different levels of experience and academics, having legal studies about arbitration. 

’Arbitration School’’ is a project, consisting of series of panels, taking place once a month and is intended to continue regularly for four years. It is planned that each of the panels will be held under the project includes total five people as; a moderator, a young academician and practitioner and a senior academician and practitioner. In the panel, young academicians and young practitioners will make presentations on different and significant topics in arbitration; Senior academics and senior practitioners will review and evaluate the issues discussed by young colleagues in their presentations. In addition, all presentations made during the year will be published in a book at the end of the each year. Our panels take place on the last Wednesday of each month, between 18:00-21:15 at Marmara University Faculty of Law.

In this context, we started ‘’Arbitration School’’ in 2018-2019 term on 31 October 2018 with the panel on "Arbitration Agreement: Basic Principles and the Preparation of Arbitration Agreement’’. We concluded our first year with the panel on "Multi-Tier Arbitration Agreements and Med-Arb" on 26 June 2019. 

We will continue to discuss various issues related to arbitration in our second year of panels, which will take place in 2019-2020. In our second year, we completed thus far our first panel on "Resolution of Corporate Law Disputes by Arbitration"  on 30 October 2019, our second panel on "Resolution of Mergers and Acquisitions Disputes by Arbitration" on 27 November 2019, our third panel on "Initiation of Arbitration Proceedings and Preparation of First Petitions (Request for Arbitration and Answer to Request for Arbitration)" on 25 December 2019, our fourth panel on "Notification and Representation by Foreign Counsel in Arbitration Proceedings" on 29 January 2020, our fifth panel on "Mediation-Arbitration (Med-Arb) and ISTAC Rules" on 26 February 2020, our sixth panel on "Anti-Suit Injunctions" on 29 April 2020, our seventh panel on "Emergency Arbitrator Proceedings" on 13 May 2020 and our eighth panel on "Provisional Measures in International Arbitration" on 27 May 2020.

Our last panel this year on "Costs in Arbitration" will be organized on 24 June 2020 at 17:00-19:00 on our Youtube channel. You may watch the panel live at www.youtube.com/tahkimokulu.

The "Arbitration School" Panel Series organized in cooperation with Marmara University Law Faculty and Istanbul Arbitration Center (ISTAC) started on 31 October 2018 Wednesday with its first event.

Our event received a wide attendance as well as wide interest from the media. You may see below some of the news from the national media about the event:

1- https://www.cnnturk.com/turkiye/istac-baskani-finans-kongresinde-konustu-tahkim-okulu-egitimleri-basladi
2- http://www.gazetevatan.com/marmara-universitesi-ve-istac-tan-tahkim-okulu-1214874-gundem/?fbclid=IwA...
3- http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/ekonomi/marmara-universitesi-ve-istactan-tahkim-okulu-41005518?fbclid=IwA...
4- https://www.ntv.com.tr/egitim/marmara-universitesi-ve-istactan-tahkim-okulu,-Y5Tfxga9k2GDvlp7a0kgw?f...

The posters for the panels held in our first year may be accessed via the links below:

1- Arbitration Agreement: Basic Principles and the Preparation of Arbitration Agreement: https://istac.org.tr/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ISTAC_31-Ekim-Poster-791x1024.jpg
2- Interpretation of Arbitration Agreements (Pathological and Asymmetrical Arbitration Agreements):
https://istac.org.tr/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ISTAC_28-Kasim-Poster_V03-01-1-791x1024.jpg
3- Written Form Requirement for Arbitration Agreements: https://istac.org.tr/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ISTAC_26_Aralik_Poster_V03-791x1024.jpg
4- Arbitration Agreements Contained in the Standard Terms and Their Consequences: https://istac.org.tr/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ISTAC_Ocak-Poster_V02-01-791x1024.jpg
5- Conclusion of Arbitration Agreement via Agents: https://istac.org.tr/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ISTAC_Subat-Poster_V01-791x1024.jpg
6- Extension of Arbitration Agreement to the Third Parties: https://istac.org.tr/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ISTAC_Mart-Poster_V01-791x1024.jpg
7- Kompetenz-Kompetenz and Separability Principle: https://gss.gs/n1k.jpg
8- Arbitrability: https://gss.gs/2wn.jpg
9- Multi-Tier Arbitration Agreements and Med-Arb: https://istac.org.tr/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Tahkim-Okulu-Haziran-2019-791x1024.jpg

The posters for the panels held in our second year may be accessed via the links below:

1- Resolution of Corporate Law Disputes by Arbitration: https://istac.org.tr/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/34k-791x1024.jpg
2- Resolution of Mergers and Acquisitions Disputes by Arbitration: https://istac.org.tr/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/EJucnHbXkAAp2iC-791x1024.jpg
3- Initiation of Arbitration Proceedings and Preparation of First Petitions (Request for Arbitration and Answer to Request for Arbitration): https://gss.gs/EPN.jpg
4- Notification in Arbitration Proceedings and Representation by Foreign Counsel in Arbitration: https://istac.org.tr/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/9eM-791x1024.jpg
5- Mediation-Arbitration (Med-Arb) and ISTAC Rules: https://istac.org.tr/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Kyx-791x1024.jpg
6- Anti-Suit Injunctions: https://gss.gs/OMz.jpg
7- Emergency Arbitrator Proceedings: https://gss.gs/uDa.jpg
8- Provisional Measures in International Arbitration: https://gss.gs/au9.jpg 
9- Costs in Arbitration: https://gss.gs/GM8.jpg

The posters for the panels held in our second year may be accessed via the links below:

1- Third Party Funding: https://gss.gs/TJ5.jpg
2- Independance and Impartiality of Arbitrators: https://gss.gs/USJ.jpg
3- Challenge of Arbitrators: https://gss.gs/eI8.jpg
4- Civil Liability of Arbitrators: https://gss.gs/1Sm.jpg
5- Multi-Party Arbitration and Consolidation of Arbitral Proceedings: https://gss.gs/T49.jpg
6- ICC Arbitration Rules in Light of the 2021 Amendments: http://gss.gs/fum.jpg
7- Parallel Proceedings in Arbitration: https://gss.gs/IFA.jpg

If you would like to attend our program as a participant, please fill out the form available under the section "Register". This section, on the other hand, is related to the attendance of our esteemed colleagues and professors, who would like to attend our panels as a speaker or a commentator.

We would be pleased with the contribution of our young colleagues who are eager to present one of the issues mentioned above and also experienced colleagues who want to contribute as commentator. However, we would like to emphasize that there will be presentations on the subjects limited to the topics mentioned above.

For participating in the program, it is kindly requested you to send an e-mail to tahkimokulu@gmail.com, including following information;