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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In Maracaibo, a Venezuelan Caribbean city of more than 3 million inhabitants, 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) organized the 1st International Meeting on Harmonization of Business Law in the Caribbean and Creation of a Regional Court of Arbitration, October 28th to 29th....

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Under the initiative of His Excellency Ambassador D. Manuel Morales Lama, President of the prestigious Hispanic Luso American Institute of International Law (IHLADI) http://www.ihladi.org, a consultative organ of the United Nations, was held the second working meeting between ACP Legal and the IHLADI to jointly explore the ways of cooperation in the harmonization of trade rules in Latin America and the Caribbean and the creation of a regional arbitration court dedicated to small and medium enter...

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The ICC Rules of Arbitration, which are used worldwide to resolve hundreds of business disputes each year, have been newly revised to take account of current requirements and developments in arbitration practice and procedure since the last revision in 1998. The new vintage is the fruit of two years of active work within the ICC Commission on Arbitration, a think tank of 620 dispute resolution specialists from 90 countries. A core group comprising Commission members and representatives of the Se...

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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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