As I look to the week’s schedule, I am (again) overwhelmed by the plethora of international arbitration events all around us, beginning today with PLI’s full-day seminar featuring national and international luminaries, then on Wednesday the New York International Arbitration Center’s program on Ethics in International Arbitration, followed by Fordham’s Annual Law School Conference on International Arbitration on Thursday and Friday. And there’s so much more.
My purpose in writing is not, however, to look ahead. Rather, I want to look back on a recent family visit to Mohonk Mountain House (Exit 18 off the New York State Thruway). For my family this was the 36th anniversary of several visits a year. We first discovered Mohonk in 1978, and over the decades have encountered many fellow Law Journal fans, even attended judicial and bar conferences there. But this was a distinctly different experience, leading me to reflect on what the eye sees and sometimes does not or, put another way, how much of what we see is actually dictated by the brain. Or maybe in the end, my reflection is just an acknowledgement of my own brain dysfunction.
