As in previous years, professors J.C. Fernandez Rozas and P.A. Miguel Asensio organise the 6th. International Seminar on International Private Law, to be held in the Graduate Hall School of Law on March 22nd. (the afternoon session will be held in the Auditorium of the College of Notaries of Madrid, Juan de Mena Street, 9) and March 23rd., 2012. The seminar has the support of the College of Notaries of Madrid and the representation in Spain of the European Commission. The coordination of the seminar is conducted by Patricia Orejudo Prieto de los Mozos and Carmen Otero Garcia-Castrillon.

The papers presented at this year's seminar will be published in the next volume (2011) Spanish Yearbook of Private International Law.

Certificates of attendance will be issued. Registration is free and can be made until March 15 by sending an email with details to: seminariodiprucm@gmail.com

The two-day event will consider at its third session, chaired by Prof. Sixto Sanchez Lorenzo, business law in the prospect of integration, with a presentation by Dr. Dario Moura Vicente (University of Lisbon, Portugal) on “investment arbitration and the new powers of the European Union” and several communications concerning the harmonization of business law in the Caribbean and Africa, in particular by professor Yoselyn Bermudez Abreu (University of Zulia, Venezuela, President of ACP Legal Venezuela), “Analysis of the socio-legal elements of the Caribbean countries under the OHADAC project“, by Jose Cueto Alvarez de Sotomayor (lawyer & international consultant for ACP Legal & UNIDA), “OHADA and the harmonization of business laws in Africa”, and Ms. Leidylin Contreras Ramirez, J.D. (junior legal consultant for the Dominican Republic Presidency), “ The Cariforum-European Partnership Agreement”, among many others.

The first sessions will update us on contractual obligations, inheritance, procedural aspects and family law.

Programme and Registration here: http://www.ucm.es