Atlanta International Arbitration Society (ATLas)
Atlanta, as host to the third-largest concentration of Fortune 500 company headquarters in the United States, the economic capital of the Southeast, and sited in one of the most arbitration-friendly states in the nation, has become a center for international arbitration. Georgia took an early lead in enacting an international arbitration-friendly state statute in 1988, becoming one of the first jurisdictions to adopt substantial portions of the 1985 UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. O.C.G.A. ยง 9-9-30 et seq. The Atlanta International Arbitration Society (ATLas; www.arbitrateatlanta.org), composed of scholars, judges, lawyers, business leaders, arbitrators, and other professionals who specialize in international law and arbitration, is an organization that focuses on educating, counseling, and guiding the international legal community about arbitrations in Atlanta.
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