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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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 th...

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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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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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