The ICC Rules of Arbitration, which are used worldwide to resolve hundreds of business disputes each year, have been newly revised to take account of current requirements and developments in arbitration practice and procedure since the last revision in 1998. The new vintage is the fruit of two years of active work within the ICC Commission on Arbitration, a think tank of 620 dispute resolution specialists from 90 countries. A core group comprising Commission members and representatives of the Se...

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Under the initiative and coordination of Prof. Lissette B. Romay Inciarte and Prof. Gerardo Ulloa Bellorin from the ACP Legal Venezuelan Chapter chaired by Professor Yoselyn A. Bermudez Abreu, the Universities of Zulia (LUZ) and Dr. Rafael Belloso Chacin (URBE) announce the 1st International Meeting on the Harmonization of Business Law in the Caribbean for the next October 28th to 29th in Maracaibo, State of Zulia, Venezuela. This event will be attended by the Deans of the Faculties of Law and P...

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Back fourteen years after its convention in Philadelphia, the Union Internationale des Avocats invites you to the United States for its 55th Congress, to be held in Miami from October 31 to November 4. As rightly noted by Dr. Pascal Maurer, President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, "for the last several years, the Miami region has witnessed such remarkable economic vitality that it has been described as a "Manhattanization" process: the construction of sky-scrapers, the establishment o...

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Under the direction of Dr. Hugo Ramirez Risk, National Delegate of the ACP Legal-Dominican Republic Chapter, different summer workshops were organized to introduce the OHADAC to the Dominican public & private sectors: July 21: Dominican government entities* at the Melia Hotel of Santo Domingo; July 27: government, business and consular entities of the Cibao region at Gran Almirante Hotel Santiago de los Caballeros with the presence of the Director General of CARIFORUM, Dr. Ivan Ogando; July...

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Following the success of the previous edition (2010), the Department of Public and Private International Law at the University Complutense of Madrid and the Arauz Law Firm (Panama) organised the second edition of the international training course for arbitrators, sponsored by the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in the Caribbean (OHADAC), the National Association of Stevedoring and Shipping Agents (Spain), the International Centre for Arbitration, Mediation and Negotiation (CIA...

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