2023 – Arbitration and Business Contracts – 22nd International Arbitration Congress

Rio de Janeiro, September 13-15, 2023

Schedule

09/13

Youth Event

3:00 p.m. | Panel I: CISG in Brazil and business contracts for the international purchase and sale of goods: an applicative assessment of the first 8 years

Moderator: Rafael Branco Xavier

Speakers:Bernard Potsch, Maria Beatriz Rizzo Delamuta, Verena Moura Waisberg

4:30 p.m. | Panel II: UNIDROIT Principles and international arbitration: between explicit choice, implicit choice and direct or abrogatory application of arbitrators

Moderator: Osny da Silva Filho

Speakers: Ana Teresa de Abreu Coutinho Boscolo, Ana Morales Ramos, Marcel Engholm Cardoso

Main Event

6:00 p.m. | Opening by the President of CBAr: André Abbud

6:20 p.m. | Opening Lecture: The role of arbitrators in strengthening business contracts

Speaker: Judith Martins-Costa

09/14

9:00 a.m. | Panel I: Corporate contracts and the arbitrator

Moderator: Cristiano Zanetti

Topic: “Arbitrator Hercules”? The ideal judge for disputes over corporate contracts

Speaker: Mark W. Friedman

Topic: Interpretation of corporate contracts in international arbitration: transnationality or particularism? Applicable law and interpretation criteria

Speaker: Franco Ferrari

Topic: Contractual interpretation in comparative arbitration: between civil law and common law

Speaker: Giuditta Cordero-Moss

10:30 AM | Coffee Break
11:00 AM | Panel II: Business contracts and arbitration process

Moderator: Marcelo Trindade

Topic: Business contracts related to various dispute resolution clauses: resolution criteria

Speaker: Luke Sobota

Topic: Disregard of legal personality and arbitration

Speaker: Mariana Pargendler

Topic: Impecuniosity in disputes involving business contracts

Speaker: Philippe Pinsolle

12:30 p.m. | Lunch
2:30 pm | Panel III: Arbitrability and corporate contracts

Moderator: Carmen Tibúrcio

Topic: Arbitrability, adhesion contracts and contracts with economic dependence (franchise, commercial representation etc..)

Speaker: Luis Renato Ferreira da Silva

Topic: Competition law and arbitrability

Speaker: Daniela Monteiro Gabbay

Topic: Arbitrability of the environmental repercussions of corporate contracts

Speaker: Dominique Brown-Berset

 

16:00 | Coffee break
4:45 p.m. | Simultaneous Round Tables

 

Room 1: Business contracts and arbitration in regulated sectors: between private autonomy and regulatory heteronomy

Moderator: Des. Leonardo de Faria Beraldo

Subtheme 1: Arbitration and business contracts in the electric power sector

Speakers: Alexandre Santos de Aragão, Floriano Peixoto de Azevedo Marques Neto

Subtheme 2: Arbitration and business contracts in the oil and gas sector

Speakers: Érica Franzetti, Elizabeth Eljuri

 

Room 2: Business contracts and sectoral arbitrations: a mosaic of experiences

Moderator: Soraya Nunes

Subtheme 1: Arbitration in agribusiness and the sui generis experience of sectoral chambers (GAFTA, FOSFA, etc.)

Speakers: Thiago Marinho Nunes, Letícia Baddauy

Subtopic 2: Sports refereeing

Speakers: Vitor Butruce, Daniel Cravo Souza

09/15

9:30 am | Panel IV: Arbitration and contractual imbalance

Moderator: Rodrigo Garcia da Fonseca

Topic: Impossibility and supervening imbalance in recent experience: an assessment of the effects of the pandemic, war, IGP-M and other supervening events

Speaker: Mariana França Gouveia

Topic: The intervention of arbitrators in business contracts and the Economic Freedom Law

Speaker: Giovanni Ettore Nanni

Topic: Arbitration and renegotiation in business contracts: a transnational duty?

Speaker: Christoph Brunner 

11:00 | Coffee break

11:30 | Special Panel: Text and context: business contracts and dispute resolution in times of instability

Speaker: Gustavo Franco

Discussor: Maurício Almeida Prado

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