Foreign-controlled companies accounted for almost one-seventh of total manufacturing employment in North Carolina in 2006. The seminar will expose to the students and practitioners inter-relation between trade and arbitration and address the new challenges in this area. An event for students and practitioners alike. Speakers include: Judge Sid Eagles, former N.C. Court of Appeals judge; Santiago Gonzalez Luna, Universidad Panamericana (Mexico); Andrea Carska-Sheppard, DLA Piper, Prague; Chris Ryan, Shearman & Sterling LLP, lecturer in the law, George Washington University Law School; Frank Laney, circuit mediator, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. For more information, contact Toby Coleman at tobias.coleman@law.duke.edu.