{"id":289893,"date":"2026-04-16T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyjus.com\/?p=289893"},"modified":"2026-05-07T09:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:32:05","slug":"how-fordham-law-school-prepares-the-next-generation-of-arbitration-lawyers-with-jus-mundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyjus.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/how-fordham-law-school-prepares-the-next-generation-of-arbitration-lawyers-with-jus-mundi\/","title":{"rendered":"How Fordham Law School Prepares the Next Generation of Arbitration Lawyers with Jus Mundi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In conversation with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/school-of-law\/faculty\/directory\/adjunct\/grant-hanessian\/\"><strong>Grant Hanessian<\/strong><\/a>, Adjunct Professor and Arbitrator at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/school-of-law\/\"><strong>Fordham Law School<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grant Hanessian of Fordham Law for Jus Mundi\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cLzHoHYJSMg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;<em>If I had to describe the value of Jus Mundi in one sentence, I would say it&#8217;s unparalleled access to comprehensive primary international arbitration materials.<\/em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grant Hanessian,<br>Adjunct Professor and Arbitrator, Fordham Law School<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Results at a Glance<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table alignwide\"><table class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Metric<\/th><th>Result<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Primary materials available<\/td><td>Over 120,000 cases on Jus Mundi<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Before Jus Mundi<\/td><td>Limited to templates and a small pool of anonymized awards and court decisions<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Student access to real work product<\/td><td>Hundreds of procedural orders, including Procedural Order No. 1, available for direct study<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Jurisdictional reach<\/td><td>Students from civil law countries worldwide access materials from their own regions<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Secondary sources<\/td><td>Juris library, Oxford University Press publications, and leading arbitration journals integrated in one platform<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Inroduction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grant Hanessian is an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School and a practicing arbitrator with experience across international commercial cases, international treaty cases, and complex domestic matters, an adjunct professor and practicing arbitrator with experience across international commercial cases, international treaty cases, and complex domestic matters. He has taught at Fordham for eight years, delivering both a doctrinal course in international commercial arbitration and the LLM International Arbitration Practicum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Practicum is a practical, role-based course in which students from around the world \u2014 predominantly from civil law jurisdictions \u2014 work through the full arc of an international arbitration, drafting procedural orders, arbitrator challenges, requests for interim relief, and emergency relief applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fordham adopted Jus Mundi in 2019, from the moment it became available, recognizing it as a resource that brought a new depth and breadth of primary and secondary arbitration materials to practitioners and educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Opportunity<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Operational Challenge<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before Jus Mundi, teaching materials for international arbitration were largely limited to court decisions and a small number of anonymized awards. As Professor Grant describes it, relying on court decisions is &#8221; the wrong end of the telescope to try to understand how arbitration actually works in practice.&#8221; Templates could be shared with students, but templates alone are a poor substitute for exposure to the real work product of the profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>Strategic Challenge<\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Grant Practicum course is designed to train students for the actual demands of international arbitration practice. Lawyers and arbitrators in practice routinely use databases such as Jus Mundi to research cases and arbitrator profiles. Failing to equip students with the same tools before they enter the profession would, in his words, represent a failure to fulfil the law school&#8217;s mission. The challenge was ensuring students graduated with genuine familiarity with the resources shaping modern arbitration practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Solution<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fordham Law School integrated Jus Mundi into both its doctrinal course and the LLM International Arbitration Practicum from 2019 onward. The platform gave students direct access to primary materials \u2014 the awards, procedural orders, and arbitral documents that define the actual work of international arbitration \u2014 rather than secondary accounts of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With over 120,000 cases available, Jus Mundi provides a depth and breadth of primary materials unavailable elsewhere. The platform also integrates the Juris library, Oxford University Press publications, and leading arbitration journals, combining case law and academic commentary in a single research environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Impact<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Access to Real Arbitration Work Product<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Practicum requires students to draft documents they will be expected to produce as practitioners: procedural orders, arbitrator challenges, interim relief requests. Jus Mundi makes this possible by giving students access to hundreds of real examples \u2014 including Procedural Order No. 1 \u2014 allowing them to study how arbitrators from different jurisdictions approach the same task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><em>As Grant notes, this gives students &#8220;quite a broad exposure to the real actual work product of international arbitration, which they&#8217;ll be called upon to do in their own practice.&#8221;<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Global Perspective for a Global Student Body<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Practicum attracts students from across the world, with a strong representation from civil law countries. Jus Mundi allows those students to search materials from their own jurisdiction or region, enabling direct comparison of how arbitration practice differs across legal traditions. This cross-jurisdictional perspective is central to the course&#8217;s purpose and was not achievable with the materials available prior to Jus Mundi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><em><em>\u201cBefore we had access to Jus Mundi, in the Practicum class particularly, we would hand out a couple of templates but that\u2019s really not a substitute for students being able to look at how arbitrators from different parts of the world do these things. Our LLM practicum class has students from all over the world and being able to access the database of Jus Mundi allows them to look at arbitrator\u2019s from their own jurisdiction or their own part of the world and compare how things are done in different places. Also, in the doctrinal course, it gives students a much richer database of cases to look at.\u201d<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Richer Resource for Doctrinal Teaching<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond the Practicum, Jus Mundi enhances the doctrinal course by providing students with a substantially larger and more relevant database of cases. Rather than relying primarily on court decisions about arbitration, students can engage directly with arbitral awards \u2014 the primary outputs of the process they are studying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><em>&#8220;Many times, research or preparing documentation are very boring tasks,&#8221; Eduardo notes. &#8220;Now, because of the time gained thanks to Jus AI, at all levels of our team, we are having more time to undertake activities which correspond more to what a lawyer should be.\u201d<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Supporting the Arbitrator&#8217;s Own Practice<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grant also uses Jus Mundi in his capacity as a practicing arbitrator. When serving as a co-arbitrator and evaluating potential chairs, he relies on Jus Mundi to research prospective candidates: the kinds of cases they have worked on and how they approach their role. The platform provides a level of insight into arbitrator practice that was previously unavailable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;<em>Jus Mundi allows me, particularly when I&#8217;m oriented as a wing, a co-arbitrator, and I&#8217;m looking for chairs when I&#8217;m looking at people who I haven&#8217;t worked with. Jus Mundi is incredibly helpful to help me understand the kinds of cases prospective chairs have worked on and how they work.&#8221;<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Closing Value<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case for integrating Jus Mundi into legal education is straightforward: practitioners use it, and law schools have a responsibility to prepare students for the world those practitioners inhabit. For Fordham, Jus Mundi has transformed what is possible in the classroom \u2014 replacing limited templates and indirect sources with the comprehensive, primary, jurisdictionally diverse materials that define modern international arbitration practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ready to see how Jus Mundi can support your institution, practice, or arbitration work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Book a personalized demo today and experience the depth, breadth, and accessibility that leading practitioners and educators rely on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignwide is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link 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