The Forum of Mediation Centres was created in 2001 by the Mediation and Conflict Prevention Commission of the Union Internationale des Avocats. It brings together the most important commercial mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution centres from around the world and offers an occasion to exchange views on the development of ADR and best practices. It is also an occasion for centres to collaborate on specific programmes. The participants will be exploring the all-important topic of training...

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Jose Ricardo Feris will succeed Simon Greenberg as Deputy Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, in January 2012, ICC announced. Mr. Feris, who is currently Managing Counsel of the Court and Secretary of the ICC Latin American Arbitration Group, will assume his duties at the end of January 2012. Prior to joining ICC, Mr. Feris served as a law clerk at the U.N. International Court of Justice in The Hague and worked for the Legal Advisor to the President of the Dominican...

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With the presence of private international law professors from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), Catholic University Andres Bello (UCAB), Metropolitan University (UNIMET), Monte Avila University (AMU), University of Zulia (LUZ) and University Rafael Belloso Chacin (URBE) was held on November 18th, 2011, in the facilities of the Monte Avila University, Caracas (Venezuela), the XI National Meeting of Professors of International Law, chaired by Dr. Eugenio Hernández-Breton. As part of thi...

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Nous sommes heureux de porter à votre connaissance la publication du bulletin de novembre 2011 de l'Institut d'Expertise, d'Arbitrage et de Médiation IEAM (Numéro 59) qui mentionne, en dernière partie, un certain nombre de décisions relatives à l'arbitrage et à la nécessaire impartialité de l'arbitre, notamment : Il est de principe que l'arbitre doit révéler aux parties toutes circonstances de nature à affecter son jugement et à provoquer dans l'esprit des parties un doute raisonnable sur ses qu...

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The industry's leading international arbitration institutions (the International Centre for Dispute Resolution of the AAA, the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC, and the World Bank International Centre for Settlement for Investment Dispute) met in New York on November 18th to share the recent developments of international arbitration with the presence of 150 arbitrators and professionals mostly from Europe and the Americas. The colloquium began with a presentation of the activity of...

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