The half-day ITA-ASIL Conference is presented annually by the ITA Academic Council with the American Society of International Law (ASIL) immediately preceding the ASIL Annual Meeting. Scholarship is a hallmark of this conference.

Disputes involving States parties have evolved from their traditional State-to-State paradigm. Today investment and commercial arbitrations between States or State-owned entities and private actors have become increasingly common and, by their nature, invoke questions of public international law (PIL). This conference explores the extent to which PIL's foundational principles have influenced international arbitrations involving sovereign entities.