Call for Papers: 2025 Taipei International Conference on Arbitration and Mediation, 28 to 29 October 2025

The Chinese Arbitration Association, Taipei (“CAA”), and the Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy, College of Law, National Taiwan University (“ACWH”) will jointly host the “2025 Taipei International Conference on Arbitration and Mediation” from 28 to 29 October 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan.

Theme

The conference theme is “The 40th Anniversary of UNCITRAL Model Law and the 70th Anniversary of CAA.” The UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, adopted in 1985, is a crucial landmark of international dispute resolution laws. The CAA, established in 1955, which is listed as one of the five institutions in the white list in 2023 by GAR for Asia-Pacific Regional Arbitration Centres, lays down a crucial foundation for Taiwan’s development in arbitration and other methods of alternative dispute resolution.

Review Process

Abstracts must be submitted by July 21, 2025. The organizing committee will select abstracts and announce the results on July 31, 2025. Applicants whose abstracts pass the review process will be invited to present at the conference. The invited presenters must submit their complete and unpublished papers by September 30, 2025.

Presenters are also invited to submit their papers to the Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal (CAAJ, an ESCI-indexed journal published by ACWH on a semiannual basis) for a peer-review process seeking possible publication.

Important Dates (based on Taipei time)