Because arbitration is an essential part of the OHADAC project, we consider useful to bring to your consideration the recent ruling by the French Reims Court of Appeal chaired by Counselor Dominique Hascher, dated November 2nd, 2011. This "Technimont" ruling cancels an arbitration award made by a ?conflicted? arbitration Court because one of the arbitrator, in this case the President of the arbitral Court, worked in a law firm committed as legal counsel with one of the parties to the arbitration...

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The Union Internationale des Avocats organized its 55th Congress in Miami from October 31 to November 4, attended by 950 lawyers coming from 81 countries. In this context, the Bureaus of the Litigation and Arbitration Commissions of the UIA interested by the OHADAC's initiative to establish a Court of Arbitration for the Caribbean invited us to a forum during a joint session chaired by Peter Turner (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Paris) and Mark C. Hilgard (Mayer Brown LLP, Frankfurt). Panel 1...

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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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Dr. Delio Carreras opening the 2011 Summer School. The eleventh annual edition of the Summer School in Havana, held from June 27 to July 1, 2011, had a unique theme "the OHADAC Harmonization of Business Law and its prospects in Latin America and the Caribbean". After the traditional opening ceremony in the Aula Magna of the University of Havana starring his Historian, Dr. Delio Carreras, Drs. Rodolfo Dávalos Fernández, Senior Lecturer on Private International Law at the University of Havana...

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