Derains & Gharavi will be hosting the 2nd Edition of the Lusophones’ Arbitration Meeting on Thursday 4 April 2019 from 4:30 pm until 6:30 pm (Centre Etoile Saint Honoré, 21-25, rue Balzac, 75008 Paris, Salon Boréal), during the Paris Arbitration Week (PAW).
This year the participants will discuss “The New Digital Economy and Arbitration”, with three Panels about the following subtopics:
Panel I: Dispute Resolution in the “New” Digital Economy (NDE)
Panel II: Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Arbitration
Panel III: Predictions and Big Data: Expectations, Possibilities and Limits in Arbitration
This event will be conducted in Portuguese.
The full programme is available here.
For registration, please send an email with your name and affiliation to Dr. Ana Gerdau de Borja Mercereau (agerdaudeborja@derainsgharavi.com). Limited places available.
Melanie van Leeuwen will speak at the “The Future of International Arbitration” conference organised by KNect365 Law. She will co-lead the panel dedicated to the following subject: “technology and arbitration: in danger of being too comfortable bedfellows?”. The conference will take place in London on 26 March 2019.
Hamid Gharavi will speak on “La procédure dans l’arbitrage sportif” at the first colloquium organized by Sorbonne Sport law. The conference titled “Jeux Olympiques 2024 – 5 ans” will be dedicated to the legal issues of the Olympic Games. It will take place on 21 March 2019 at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
Hamid Gharavi will speak on the topic of “Trade Sanctions” at the 22nd IBA Arbitration Day conference “Beyond the Governing Law: Mandatory Rules, Lois de police, Trade Sanctions and Other Conflicts of Laws”, which will be held on March 14 and 15, 2019 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Yves Derains will speak on “The evolution of the theory of non-signatory parties, multi-parties and its practical application in Latin America” at the X CAI Costa Rica conference dedicated to the “Analysis of the last decade, lessons, tendencies and challenges” and organised by the ICC Costa Rica, on 24 to 27 February 2019 in San Jose, Costa Rica.