Thursday, June 20 

Shaping the upcoming arbitration

9:00 AM – Opening

  • José Antonio Moreno Rodríguez (Asunción, Director de la CLA)
  • Diego P. Fernández Arroyo (Buenos Aires / París, Director de la CLA)
  • Rodrigo Garcia de Fonseca (Río de Janeiro, Presidente CAM-CCBC)

9:30 AM – Inaugural lecture – The increasing complexities of international Arbitration practice and
how to tame them

  • Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler (Ginebra)

10:30 – Break

Economic and political Arbitration challenges

10:45 AM – Panel I – Arbitration and international economic sanctions

Chairs: Yves Derains (Paris)

Introduces: Julie Bédard (New York / São Paulo)

Debate:

  • Isabelle Michou (Paris)
  • Diego Durán de la Vega (Washington DC)
  • Diego Gosis (Miami)
  • Maria Claudia Procopiak (Londres / Rio de Janeiro)

 

12:15 AM – Free lunch

2:00 PM – Panel II – Impact of national and international political crisis on Arbitration

Chairs: María Carolina Durán (Washington, DC)

Introduces: Cristián Conejero (Santiago)

Debate:

  • Fernando Tupa (Buenos Aires)
  • Debora Visconte (São Paulo)
  • María del Carmen Tovar (Lima)
  • Bernardo Wayar Caballero (La Paz)
  • Patricia Nacimiento (Frankfurt)

3:30 PM – Break

Current issues of the settlement of international disputes involving States

3:45 PM – Panel III – Will investment contracts replace the BITs?

Chairs: Silvia Marchili (Miami)

Introduces: Eduardo Silva Romero (París)

Debate:

  • Patricio Grané Labat (London)
  • Ximena Herrera (London)
  • Mairée Urán Bidegain (Santiago)
  • Julián Bordaçahar (The Hague)

5:15 PM – Break


5:30 PM – Panel IV – Enforcement of arbitral awards against the State – Hot issues

Chairs: Renato Grion (São Paulo)

Introduces: María Inés Corrá (Buenos Aires)

Debate:

  • Carmen Tiburcio (Río de Janeiro)
  • Paul Arrighi (Montevideo)
  • Verónica Sandler (Buenos Aires)
  • Irma Rivera (Bogotá)
7:00 PM – End of first day

 

Friday, June 21 

Optimizing evidence production

9:00 AM- Panel V – Do we need to rationalize document production?

Chairs: Valeria Galíndez (São Paulo)

Introduces: Fabiano Robalinho Cavalcanti (Rio de Janeiro)

Debate:

  • Christian Albanesi (Washington DC)
  • Claudia Benavides (Bogotá)
  • Mauricio Almeida Prado (São Paulo)
  • André Abbud (São Paulo)

10:30 AM – Break

1:45 AM – Panel VI – How to deal with expert reports?

Chairs: Alfonso Iglesia (Madrid)

Introduces: Carlos Alberto Carmona (São Paulo)

Debate:

  • Eliane Carvalho (São Paulo)
  • Flavio Yarshell (São Paulo)
  • Nadia de Araujo (Rio de Janeiro)
  • Andrés Jana (Santiago)

12:15 PM – Free lunch

Emerging topics – Professionalization of Arbitration

14:00 PM – Panel VII – Are tribunal secretaries writing too much?

Chairs: Selma Lemes (São Paulo)

Introduces: José Roberto Castro Neves (Rio de Janeiro)

Debate:

  • Patricia Ferraz (São Paulo)
  • Javier Íscar de Hoyos (Madrid)
  • Flavia Bittar (Belo Horizonte)
  • Eduardo Damiao Gonçalves (São Paulo)

15:30 PM – Break

7:30 PM – Closing dialogue – Does Arbitration have a future?

  • José Emilio Nunes Pinto (São Paulo)

Interviewed by: Rodrigo Garcia da Fonseca (São Paulo)


18:30 PM – Final remarks
Diego P. Fernández Arroyo (Buenos Aires / París, Director de la CLA)