After two days of announcements, speeches and rich discussions, on the afternoon of 22 September 2015, the OHADAC Convention finally drew to a close. After a speech by Marlène Melisse, 4th Vice-President of the Departmental Council of Guadeloupe, Manuel de Jésus Pirez, Director for Legal Affairs at the Ministry for External Relations in Cuba, took the stage, highlighting his government's desire to extend its participation in the OHADAC legal and political adventure and praising Cuban jurists for...

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Sylvie Monjean-Decaudin, Professor of Law specialized in legal translation at the University of Cergy Pontoise (Paris) - Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Juritranslatology (CERIJE), France whose team has translated the OHADAC texts, gave a talk at the conference entitled “Translating OHADAC texts - A field report”. As an introduction, Professor Monjean-Decaudin noted that legal translation is of increasing interest to academics, particularly since globalization m...

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At the OHADAC convention, which took place on 21 and 22 September 2015 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, a special workshop was dedicated to “The OHADAC Model Law of Commercial Companies”. This text was written by the team of researchers and academics under the aegis of Professor Rodolfo Davalos Fernandez. The panel was chaired by: Christophe Cuartero, lawyer at the Guadeloupe bar, standing in for the absent chair, Jamil Houda and brought together the following speakers: Rodol...

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The OHADAC Convention held on 21-22 September 2015 saw speeches from Françoise Andrieux, judicial officer and President of the International Union of Judicial Officers and Nicole Souletie, Administrative and Financial Director of the Foundation for Continental Law. Françoise Andrieux presented “The Global Code of Enforcement”. After reminding participants that there could not be efficient law without enforcement, she explained that the International Union of Judicial Officers (UIHJ)...

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At the OHADAC Convention held on 21 and 22 September in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, a workshop was held on “the OHADAC Model Law on Private International Law”, of which around 80% of the text can be found in the Private International Law Act no. 544-14 of December 2014 of the Dominican Republic. The “OHADAC Model Law on Private International Law” was written by a team of academics and researchers under the aegis of Professor José Carlos Fernandez Rozas. The panel was ch...

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