Stephanie Cohen

Stephanie is a NYC-based arbitrator of international and domestic commercial disputes and a Canadian national. She is especially well known for her work on the impact of technology on the arbitration process.

Experience

More than 80 cases as arbitrator, including cases involving: accounting, aircraft equipment agreements, aluminum supply and manufacturing, audio coding for wireless technology, audits, aviation, blockchain and distributed ledger technology, commercial contracts, component exchange agreements, cryptocurrency, demurrage claims, distribution agreements, emergency relief, energy marketing, engineering automation, ERISA retirement funds, entertainment licensing, executive employment, fiduciaries, fitness equipment design and development, fitness franchises, franchise agreements, fraud, hedge funds, investment banking, libel, licensing obligations, ife sciences, LLC operating agreements, loan agreements, maritime law, medical devices, misappropriation of intellectual property, personal guaranties, placement agents, rapid diagnostic testing, restaurant licensing, sales contracts, securities laws, settlement and indemnification agreements, shareholder agreements, software design and development, trademark rights, trade secrets, technology licensing, collaboration and development agreements, termination, venture capital financing, warranties, wine and spirits distribution, wire technology development and collaboration

Work History

Independent Arbitrator, since 2012; Counsel / Associate, White & Case LLP, 2002 - 2012; Legal Intern, Legal Aid Society (Juvenile Rights Division), 2001; Articling Student-at-Law, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, 2000 - 2001

Cases

International and domestic commercial disputes as chair, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator, emergency arbitrator, and appellate arbitrator in matters governed by AAA, ICDR, ICC, UNCITRAL, HKIAC, ADRIC, SMA rules of arbitration

License(s)

New York; Ontario (Canada)

Education

University of Toronto Faculty of Law (JD); McGill University (BA)

Publications

Selected publications: - ICDR Award No. 518-11 Commentary, in ICDR AWARDS AND COMMENTARIES, VOL. II (2023) - Reflections on ‘Effective’ Evidentiary Hearings and the Staying Power of Virtual Hearings in RETHINKING THE PARADIGMS OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION – ICC INSTITUTE DOSSIER XX (2023) (with Jason Chan) - ICC Arbitration and ADR Commission Report on Leveraging Technology for Fair, Effective and Efficient International Arbitration Proceedings (2022)* (*chair of Working Group that drafted the report) - Draft Zoom Hearing Procedural Order, TDM (Advance Publication, April 2020) - Co-editor (with Mark Morril), TDM Special Issue, ‘Cybersecurity in International Arbitration,’ TDM 3 (2019), www.transnational-dispute-management.com - TDM Special Issue, ‘Cybersecurity in International Arbitration’ – Introduction, TDM 3 (2019) (with Mark Morril), www.transnational-dispute-management.com - A Call to Cyberarms—The International Arbitrator’s Duty to Avoid Digital Intrusion, 40 FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 981 (2017) (with Mark Morril), re-published as A Call to Cyberarms: The International Arbitrator’s Duty to Avoid Digital Intrusion by Taking Reasonable Cybersecurity Measures, TDM (10/17) and TDM 3 (2019), www.transnational-dispute-management.com

Awards

- Chambers Global and USA Guides, Band 2 Arbitrator - WWL Arbitration & USA Thought Leader - Best Development Award (2018), Global Arbitration Review (awarded to the ICCA-New York City Bar-CPR Institute Working Group on Cybersecurity in Arbitration) - CPR Institute Award for Outstanding Professional Article (2018), for A Call to Cyberarms—The International Arbitrator’s Duty to Avoid Digital Intrusion, 40 Fordham International Law Journal 981 (2017) - American Bar Foundation, Life Fellow (elected Fellow in 2017) - Thurgood Marshall Award, New York City Bar Association (2008)

Panels

AAA Commercial (Large Complex Cases), ICDR, CPR Distinguished Neutral

Associations

- Chair, International Commercial Disputes Committee, New York City Bar Association - Fellow and Approved Faculty, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators - ICC Commission on Arbitration & ADR - ICC Canada - LCIA North American Users’ Council - New York State Bar Association - American Bar Association - Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society - Arbitral Women - International Arbitration Club of New York - Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center

Miscellaneous

Co-Chair, ICC Advanced Arbitration Academy for North America Arbitrator facilitator / trainer for new AAA arbitrators since 2019