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 sem...

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The Democratic Republic of Congo will know very soon a legislative upheaval of huge importance. Indeed, after the OHADA Treaty (Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa) came into effect, a new business law will be applicable in this large country. A mini legal revolution will take place. Due to the immediately applicable effect of the Uniform Acts which were adopted in the wake of the OHADA Treaty, many law matters will be entirely replaced by new texts: arbitration, general...

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The French Dominican Chamber of Commerce (CCDF) and the Regional Council of Guadeloupe signed a cooperation agreement which aims to strengthen trade ties and economic cooperation between the two Caribbean territories. The agreement was signed by Manuel A. Grullon, President of the CCDF and Thérèse Marianne-Pépin, Vice President of the Regional Council of Guadeloupe, in the presence of H.E. Blandine Kreiss, Ambassador of France in the Dominican Republic. This agreement also seeks to promote mu...

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The seminar “Ethical Issues in Commercial and Investment Arbitration”, jointly sponsored by the Center on International Commercial Arbitration of the American University Washington College of Law and the Arbitration Spanish Club will be held on March 8th, 2012, from 2.00 pm to 7.00 pm at the American University Washington College of Law (Washington, DC). The speakers will be: Claudio Grossman, Lorena Perez McGill, Jean Kalicki, Andrés Rigo Sureda, Jeffrey F. Pryce, Caline Mouawad, Marinn Ca...

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The Diploma in International Business Law is a programme (Executive Certificate Program) organized by the Global Institute of Higher Studies in Social Sciences (iGLOBAL) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, under the direction of the Department of Public & Private International Law of the Madrid Complutense University (UCM), with support from the President Leonel Fernandez's foundation FUNGLODE. It is divided into four (4) modules, covering the complex, recent and multifaceted world of inte...

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