In the afternoon of July 22, 2006, the workshop on“Arbitration Settlement of International Commercial Disputes”was held by Shanghai Arbitration Commission jointly with New York University Law School and Shanghai Jiaotong University Law School. Wang Zude, the deputy director of our Commission, gave a lecture themed“Shanghai Arbitration Moving towards Modernization and Internationalization”; and professor Jerome A. Cohen from New York University Law School delivered a speech themed“Arbitration Settlement of International Commercial Disputes: Development and Problem”

　　There were altogether over 80 people presenting at the workshop and visiting our office building later on, and they are representatives from American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, leading officials and senior executives of legal affairs sections of some foreign invested enterprises, such as the Bayer Group in Greater China, Siemens China Group, HP China Group, etc., resident lawyers in Shanghai from foreign law offices, journalists based in Shanghai from American Financial Times and British Reuters, etc. as well as law school professors and scholars in and out of China.