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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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 "Technimont" 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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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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