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Day 1 - September 28th 2007
EFFECTIVE RESOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL DISPUTES
THEORY & PRACTICE
| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | OPENING PLENARY: INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL MEDIATION Pier Virgilio Dastoli (Director, EC Commission Representation, Italy); Giuseppe De Palo (ADR MEDA Project Leader, Italy); Fahri Kasirga (Deputy Minister of Justice, Turkey); Clemente Mastella* (Minister of Justice, Italy) |
| 10:00 AM 11:15 AM | SESSION I Three concurrent morning tracks will cover the theoretical underpinning and practical implications of consensual dispute resolution processes, specifically mediation, in international commerce. Particular attention will be given to the business to business sector, and the methods that may be applied in order to realize the benefits of effective and efficient dispute resolution mechanisms. Participants will pre-select their preferred track. |
| TRACK 1: Cross-Cultural Aspects in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Chair: Tim Hardy (United Kingdom) Rapporteur: Nabil Antaki (Syria / Canada) Commentators: Nadja Alexander (Australia); Habib Chamoun-Nicolas (Mexico); Eligio Resta (Italy) |
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TRACK 2: Mediation Skills in International Business Disputes Chair: Manon Schonewille (The Netherlands) Rapporteur: Karl Mackie (United Kingdom) Commentators: Thierry Garby (France); Lubna Katbeh (Palestine); Shai Porat (Israel) |
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TRACK 3: Corporate ADR Chair: Sophie Henry (France) Rapporteur: Bengt Gustafson (Sweden) Commentators: Abdul Rahman Attar (Syria); Zineb Hamzi (Morocco); Michael Leathes (United Kingdom) |
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| 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM | Break |
| 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM |
SESSION II These tracks are devoted to the existing and desirable legal frameworks of ADR mechanisms, in particular mediation. Special attention will be devoted to: 1) the degree of appropriate government intervention, 2) the role of judges as mediators or as advocates of external mediation to litigants, and 3) the role of lawyers as problem-solvers, beyond litigation. |
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TRACK 4: Government and ADR Chair: Michael van den Honert (The Netherlands) Rapporteur: Borhan Amrallah (Egypt) Commentators: Ronald Bradbeer (United Kingdom); Cesare Mirabelli (Italy) |
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TRACK 5: Judges and ADR Chair: Vincenzo Carbone (Italy) Rapporteur: Ivan Verougstraete (Belgium) Commentators: Walid Kanakrieh (Jordan); Michal Rubinstein (Israel); Ales Zalar (Slovenia) |
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| TRACK 6 : Lawyers and ADR Chair: Sameh Ashour (Egypt) Rapporteur: Christian Duve (Germany) Commentators: Guido Alpa* (Italy); I. Güneş Gürseler (Turkey); Michele Vietti (Italy) |
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| 12:45 PM – 2:15 PM | Lunch |
| 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM | AFTERNOON PLENARY: INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION Mohamed Aboul-Enein (Egypt); Alessandro Cassiani (Italy); Loukas Mistelis (Greece/UK); Lord Woolf of Barnes (UK) |
| 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM | SESSION III The first part of the afternoon will focus on the interplay between domestic and international legislation in defining the legal regime for commercial arbitration. A specific track will also be devoted to the relationship between mediation and arbitration. The last track will discuss the role of the courts in arbitration. |
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TRACK 7: Regulatory Developments in the Region: National Legislation and International Conventions Chair: Klaus Peter Berger (Germany) Rapporteur: Mohamed Abdel Raouf (Egypt) Commentators: Anna Mantakou (Greece); Ergun Oszunay (Turkey) |
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| TRACK 8: Procedural Challenges: Streamlining and Managing Disputes by Effective Use of Mediation Culture in Arbitration Chair: Habib Malouche (Tunisia) Rapporteur: Chris Newmark (UK) Commentators: Anna Maria Bernini (Italy); Stefan Kröll (Germany); Amnon Straschnov (Israel) |
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| TRACK 9: Role of Courts Chair: Abdel Hamid El Ahdab (Lebanon) Rapporteur: Hans van Houtte (Belgium) Commentators: Diego Corapi (Italy); Lawrence Shore (UK) |
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| 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM | Break |
| 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM |
SESSION IV The second part of the afternoon will focus on specific topics affecting the practice of arbitration internationally, with specific reference to the role of international conventions on investment, the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and effective arbitration advocacy. |
| TRACK 10: Investment Treaty Arbitration and the MEDA Region Chair: Emmanuel Gaillard (France) Rapporteur: Bernardo Cremades (Spain) Commentators: Kaj Hobér (Sweden); Sami Houerbi (Tunisia); Albert Jan van den Berg (The Netherlands) |
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| TRACK 11: Challenge / Enforcement of Arbitration Awards and Public Policy Chair: Jernej Sekolec (Austria) Rapporteur: Thomas Pfeiffer (Germany) Commentators: Domenico Di Pietro (Italy); Ahmed Djouadi (Algeria); Eva Horvath (Hungary) |
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TRACK 12: Arbitration Advocacy and Ethics – An Interactive Simulation Moderator: Loretta Malintoppi (France) Panelists: Christian Duve (Germany); Karim Hafez (Egypt); Christophe von Krause (France); Audley Sheppard (UK); Jorge Verissimo (Portugal) |
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