N. 19
Doctrine
(a) National
1. Research Project: “Arbitration and the Judiciary” Institutional Academic-Scientific Partnership of the Getulio Vargas Foundation São Paulo School of Law (Direito GV) and the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr)
Daniela Monteiro Gabbay, Rafael Francisco Alves, Selma Ferreira Lemes, Natália Langenegger, Natália Luchini, Maria Cecília Asperti and Patrícia Shiguemi Kobayashi
2. Mediation as a Political Objective of the European Community: The Approval of the Directive Regulating Certain Aspects of Commercial and Civil Mediation
Maria Rita Drummond
3. Mediation Project in Consumer Over-indebtedness: The Experience in the Interior and Capital Courts
Clarissa Costa de Lima, Káren Rick Danilevicz Bertoncello and Maria Augusta Dall’Agnol
(b) International
1) The Autonomy of International Commercial Arbitration at the Time of the Constitutionalization of Arbitration in Latin America
Alfredo de Jesús O.
2. Achieving the Intended Purpose of Arbitration Agreements in the U.S. and Brazil – The Limited Scope of Judicial Review of Arbitral Awards under the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act and the Necessity of a Compromisso under the Brazilian Arbitration Law
Oliver J. Armas and Thomas N. Pieper
3. The Strange Case of the Invisible Treaty: The 1975 Panama Convention on International Commercial Arbitration
Timothy G. Nelson
Jurisprudence
(a) National State Commentary
1. Arbitration Convention Established in a Deed of Promise of Purchase and Sale. Compromissory Clause of a Mandatory Nature. Application of Arbitration in Consumer Matters. Impossibility for the Interpreter to Create Restrictions Nonexistent in the Law. Court of Justice of Rio de Janeiro. July 7, 2008. CZ6. Empreendimentos Comerciais Ltda. v. Lúcio Maciel de Toledo Malta
Alice Moreira Franco
2. Habeas Corpus. Crimes of Gang, Ideological Falsehood, Usurpation of Public Function and Criminal Contravention of Illegal Exercise of Profession of Arbitrator or Mediator. Request to Stop the Criminal Action. Partially granted. Federal Supreme Court. March 18, 2008. Ana Cristina Parente Alves v. Superior Court of Justice
Rafael Francisco Alves and Octávio Orzari
(b) National State Not Commented On
(1) Impossibility of Submitting to the Judiciary the Claim for Reparation of Damages Subject to a Full Compromise Clause. Negative Effect of Jurisdiction-Competence. Panorama Unchanged Even in the Case of an Arbitral Award Declared Inexistent and Not Homologated by the Superior Court of Justice. Court of Justice of the State of São Paulo. February 26, 2008. Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Andrade – CA de Oliveira Andrade Comércio, Importação e Exportação Ltda. v. Renault S/A – Renault do Brasil Comércio e Participações Ltda
2. It is not possible to dismiss the criminal action for the crime of embezzlement, due to the pending declaration by the arbitral tribunal of the existence of property damage. Embezzlement is a crime of unconditional public criminal action, and the victim’s representation is unnecessary and irrelevant to what is contained in the private contract that provides for arbitration, which cannot be made a condition for the criminal action to proceed. Superior Court of Justice. August 15, 2006. Ricardo Hasson Sayeg and others v. Court of Justice of the State of São Paulo
Classics of Arbitration
1. Cour d’Appel de Paris (1re Chambre Civil). January 14, 1997. République Arabe d’Egypte v. Société Chromalloy Aero Services
Sabrina Ribas Bolfer
General Information
1. New Authorities in Arbitac
Adriana Noemi Pucci
2. Note on the Survey “International Arbitration: Corporate Attitudes and Practices” (2008)
Rafael Francisco Alves
Reviews
1. Homologation of Foreign Arbitral Awards. Author: André de Albuquerque Cavalcanti Abbud
Renato Grion
2. Ecrits – Droit de L’Arbitrage – Droit du Commerce International. Author: Philippe Fouchard
João Bosco Lee
Journal of Journals
Fernando José Breda Pessoa
1. International Arbitration
2. ASA Bulletin
3. Journal of International Arbitration
4. Journal of Arbitration and Mediation
5. Journal of Arbitration