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  • CSR project: WLF published the first HUGO Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative Newsletter (pdf)
  • HUGO Fellow Judge Sir David Baragwanath has been elected President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon [read more]
  • World Legal Forum 2011: 'Managing Corporate Conflicts, from threat to opportunity for sustainable business' on 6 December 2011 [read more & register here.] 
  • Registration for World Legal Forum 2011 has been closed
  • ICLN hosts the Conference on 'Prevention of International Fraud & Corruption, the consequences, challenges and opportunities for commercial enterprises', Thursday 8 December, The Hague [read more icln.net]
  • The formal opening of P.R.I.M.E. Finance, when arbitration and mediation services will go live, is scheduled for 16 January 2012 [primefinancedisputes.org]
  • WLF is pleased to announce that KPMG joined as a Strategic Partner of the WLF Foundation [read more]
  • Judge Sir David Baragwanath, Katinka Jesse, Erik Koppe and Austin Onuoha are the HUGO Fellows at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) from 1 September until 30 November 2011. Read here more on their HUGO research topics.
  • CSR project: WLF published the report and recommendations of the CSR expert meeting d.d. 14.06.2011 (pdf)
  • P.R.I.M.E. Finance in the news: The Global Lawyer: Lehman and the Rise of Global Financial Arbitration | By Michael D. Goldhaber | American Lawyer | 11.08.2011 [read more press coverage]
  • United Kingdom Supreme Court Justice Lord Collins of Mapesbury joins P.R.I.M.E. Finance Experts List [read more]
  • CSR project: Harvard Paper with WLF support has been published: "International Support for Effective Dispute Resolution Between Companies and Their Stakeholders: Assessing Needs, Interests, and Models" June 2010 (pdf)
  • P.R.I.M.E. Finance (The Panel of Recognized International Market Experts in Finance) has been launched in The Hague [primefinancedisputes.org & read more]
  • CSR project: WLF organised an expert meeting on 14 June 2011, by invitation only
  • WLF is pleased to announce that De Brauw Blackstone and Westbroek law firm joined as a Strategic Partner of the WLF Foundation [read more]
  • WLF hosted a brainstorm session on Anti-Fraud & Corruption on 30 June 2011, by invitation only
  • WLF is pleased to announce that Dr. Ernst Hirsch Ballin joined as Board Member [press release in Dutch (pdf)]
  • CSR project: WLF submitted a commentary to the Ruggie Guiding Principles [read more]