Professor Julien CHAISSE was awarded the Smit-Lowenfeld Prize for the best article in the field of international arbitration by International Arbitration Club of New York. The prize is being awarded for the article, “Cybersecurity and the Protection of Digital Assets -- Assessing the Role of International Investment Law and Arbitration,” which was co-authored with Cristen Bauer and was published in Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law 2019.

The Smit-Lowenfeld Prize is awarded annually by the International Arbitration Club of New York, a group of the leading International arbitration lawyers in the new York City area to recognize the outstanding article published in the previous year on any aspect of international arbitration. The Prize honors the late Hans Smit of Columbia Law School and Andreas F. Lowenfeld of New York University School of Law, both renowned scholars in international litigation and arbitration, well known arbitrators, and dearly missed members of the Club.