Under the auspices of Dr. Josep Maria de Dios i Marcer, illustrious Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and the initiative of Dr. Rafael Arenas García, Professor of Private International Law, took place the First OHADA / OHADAC Presentation Meeting in the Conference Room of the Faculty of Law at the U.A.B. with the participation of lawyers from the University of Barcelona, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona, and...

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Under the auspices of Dr. Josep Maria de Dios i Marcer, illustrious Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and the initiative of Dr. Rafael Arenas García, Professor of Private International Law, will take place the First OHADA / OHADAC Presentation Seminar in the Conference Room of the Faculty of Law at the UAB in Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona). The Conference, supported by the associations UNIDA, chaired by Judge Seydou Ba, and ACP LEGAL, conducte...

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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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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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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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