2011 – Arbitration and the Public Interest – 10th International Arbitration Congress

CBAr Foz do Iguaçu, September 18-20, 2011

Schedule

09/18

3:00 p.m. | Registration
3:30 p.m. | OPENING
• Lauro da Gama e Souza Jr.

3:45 p.m. | FIRST SESSION
• Clávio Valença Filho
• Ana Gerdau de Borja
• Rachel Benevenuto
• Thiago Marinho Nunes

5:00 p.m. | BREAK

5:15 p.m. | SECOND SESSION
• Luciano Benetti Timm
• Priscila Knoll Aymone
• Leonardo Corrêa
• Eduardo de Albuquerque Parente

6:30 p.m. | CLOSING

09/19

09:00 AM | Opening
• Attorney General of the Union
• CEO of ENM
• Minister of the STJ
• President of the CCBC
• President of the OAB/CF
• President of the OAB/DF
• President of the CBAr
• President of the STF
• President of the STJ

09:20 AM | Opening Lecture: The State and Arbitration
• President: Hermes Marcelo Huck
• Luís Roberto Barroso

Part I – The State and Public Interest in Commercial Arbitration

10:00 AM | Panel I – State’s Binding to Arbitration
– Subjective Arbitrability and Compliance with the Principle of Legality: Arbitration Law, PPP Law, Concessions Law and Other Legislation
– Limits of Objective Arbitrability
• Chair: Min. Ellen Gracie
Selma Ferreira Lemes
Eduardo Silva Romero

11:10 AM | Coffee Break

11:40 AM | Panel II – The Arbitration Convention and Public Administration

– Institutional Arbitration and Ad Hoc Arbitration
– Choice of Language and Headquarters (place of issuing the award)
– Choice of Applicable Law in International Contracts
• Chair: Marina Mendes Costa
Eduardo Damião Gonçalves
Carmen Tibúrcio
Philippe Leboulanger

01:00 PM | Lunch

02:30 PM | Panel III – State prerogatives and commercial arbitration

– Advertising and Arbitration
– Immunity from Execution and Arbitration
• Chair: Eduardo Grebler
Pedro Batista Martins
Donald Donovan

03:30 PM | Panel IV – Internal and international public order

– The Application of Public Order by the Arbitrator
– The Control of Public Order by the State at the Headquarters (annulment action) and at the Time of Recognition of the Foreign Award

• Chair: Min. Fátima Nancy
Andrighi
Eleonora Coelho
Albert Jan Van den Berg

04:30 PM | Coffee break

05:00 PM | Panel V – The experience of arbitration chambers involving the state

– The Experience of the International Chamber of Commerce of Paris
– The Experience of the ICDR
– The Perspective of Brazilian Chambers
• Chair: Silvia Pachikoski
Christian Albanesi – to be confirmed
Luiz Martinez
Frederico Straube

09/20

Part II – The State and Public Interest in Commercial Arbitration

09:30 AM | Panel VI 

– Oil, Gas and Biofuels
– Highways, Roads and Airports
– Telephony
• Chairman: Min. Luiz Fux
Carlos Borromeu de Andrade
José Miguel Júdice
Alfredo Bulla – to be confirmed

11:00 AM | Coffee Break

11:30 AM | Panel VII

– Capital Markets and Corporate
– Intellectual Property
– Antitrust
• Chair: Carlos Alberto Carmona
José Alexandre Tavares Guerreiro
Maristela Basso
Jonathan Hamilton – to be confirmed

12:30 PM | Lunch

Part III – The State and Public Interest via State-Investor Arbitration

02:00 PM | Panel VIII

– The Multilateral Mechanism of ICSID and the Possible Convenience of Brazil’s Participation
– The Activity of ICSID
– The Vision of a Developed Country that Participates
– The “Criticism” of a Developing Country that Participates
– An Economic Vision of Brazil as a Capital Importer and Capital Exporter
• Chair: Carlos Forbes
Meg Kinner
Alex Wilbraham
Ignácio Torterola
Roberto Giannetti

04:00 PM | Coffee Break

04:30 PM | Panel IX – The Advisability of Brazil Signing BITs – Bilateral Investment Treaties

– US Experience
– European Countries’ Experience
– Latin American Countries’ Experience
– Investment Regulation in Europe
• Chair: Welber Barral
David M. Bigge
Jorge Mattamouros
Jan Kleinheisterkamp

05:45 PM | Closing Lecture

• Chair: Min. Eros Roberto Grau
Jean Pierre Ancel
Investment Regulation
in Europe
• Chair: Welber Barral
• David M. Bigge
• Jorge Mattamouros
• Jan Kleinheisterkamp

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