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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Nous sommes heureux de porter à votre connaissance la publication du bulletin de novembre 2011 de l'Institut d'Expertise, d'Arbitrage et de Médiation IEAM (Numéro 59) qui mentionne, en dernière partie, un certain nombre de décisions relatives à l'arbitrage et à la nécessaire impartialité de l'arbitre, notamment : Il est de principe que l'arbitre doit révéler aux parties toutes circonstances de nature à affecter son jugement et à provoquer dans l'esprit des parties un doute raisonnab...

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Les trois plus grandes institutions d'arbitrage international (le Centre international de Résolution des Différends de l'AAA, la Cour internationale d'arbitrage de la Chambre de Commerce Internationale, et le Centre International pour le Règlement des Différends relatifs aux Investissements, dépendant de la Banque Mondiale) se sont donnés rendez-vous le 18 novembre dernier à New York pour traiter de la dernière actualité en la matière en présence de 150 arbitres et professionnels prov...

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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 "Tecnimont" 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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