Celine Lange moderated a panel at the 2026 Bocconi International Arbitration Conference in Milan, Italy
On 22 May 2026, Celine Lange moderated a panel at the 2026 Bocconi International Arbitration Conference in Milan, Italy, on “Ethics in International Arbitration: Self-Regulation, Accountability, and the Future of Professional Conduct”.
The topic of the panel was “Emerging Ethics: Expert Witnesses, Tribunal Secretaries, Funders, and Institutional Actors” and featured Catharine Titi (CNRS), Diego Agulló (Universidad Pontifica Comillas / Yale Law School), Michael McIlwrath (MDisputes), Nikolaus Pitkowitz (Pitkowitz & Partners) and Victoria Sahani (Boston University School of Law). The panel addressed emerging ethics through short presentations and six hypothetical scenarios put to a live audience vote.
Celine was also an instructor at the Skills Workshop for Government Representatives 2026 that preceded the conference. The workshop uses a hands-on format organised around a hypothetical Investor-State arbitration. Participants work through the life cycle of a case-drafting and assessing arbitration clauses, selecting arbitrators, making early case-management choices, and negotiating outcomes through structured small-group work, role-play exercises, and guided debriefs.
