Conferences – Speaker

Regular Speaker in Conferences and Panels on International Arbitration Law and Practice (Non-exhaustive List):

International Law

University Paris II (IHEI, Panthéon-Assas): “The Development of International Law and its Codification by the International Law Commission. A Review of Roberto Ago’s, Richard Baxter’s and Lauterpacht’s Writings”

Paris Arbitration Week:

Speaker and Moderator on “Komstroy, PL Holdings, Micula, Energy and Investment Arbitration in the EU and Worldwide”

ICC Arbitration:

• Speaker at ICC PIDA Seminars (ICC Paris)

International Commercial Arbitration:

• American Bar Association: The First Annual International Litigation Skills Conference: “International Hearings in the Age of Remote Practice”
• American Bar Association (ABA) Meeting in London: “Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments and Arbitral Awards Abroad under the 2019 Hague Convention and the 1958 New York Convention” 
• American Bar Association (ABA) International Contracts Committee : “International Commercial Contracts between Conflict of Laws and Uniform Law”
• New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC): “International Anti-suit and Anti-arbitration Injunctions before Arbitral Tribunals and Courts in Comparative Perspective”
• CEA/CIAM/DIS Event (Berlin Dispute Resolution Days): “Intercultural and Legal Aspects in the Selection of Arbitrators in International Practice”  
• Les rencontres de l’arbitrage (Paris, in French): “The Seat in International Arbitrations in Complex Geopolitical Contexts” 
• IPA Conference (in Spanish): “Third Party Funding and Jurisdiction”
• IPA Conference (in Spanish): “The EU Artificial Intelligence Act and Arbitration”
• Speaker at the International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Meetings in Prague (International Commercial Transactions Committee) and Chicago (International Commercial Arbitration Committee)
• International Arbitration Club (London):
• i) “Has the New Brussels I EU Regulation 1215 Imposed Any Change in International Arbitration and Arbitration-related Litigation in the EU ?”
   
• ii) “What Consequences Would “Brexit” Have on International Commercial and Investment Arbitration in the United Kingdom ?”
• International Arbitration Club of New York: “Preliminary Relief and Interim Measures in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration”
• Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre and CIArb Hong Kong Branch: “Should the 1958 N.Y. Convention be revised?”
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London): “Conflicts of Interests in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration”
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Brazil Branch) “Back to Basics: Litigation v. Arbitration in Dealing with International Disputes”
• Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators: “Validity and Breach of Arbitration Agreements and Anti-Suit Injunctions in Comparative Perspective”
• American Bar Association, Miami Conference: “Parallel Court and Arbitration Proceedings”
• Fordham University (New York City) International Mediation and Arbitration Conferences: “International Mediation in Italian, French and EU Law”
• New York City Chapter, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators: “Non-national Law in International Litigation and Arbitration”
• King’s College London: “Law and Practice of International Contracts, Europe and Emerging Markets”
• Dublin Forums on Arbitration: “Arbitration and Competition Law; Arbitration and IP Law”
• CILS Salzburg: “Dealing with Counterclaims in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration”
• George Washington University (Washington DC) and ICC: “National Courts and International Commercial Arbitration (Rapporteur on French arbitration law)”
• Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo: “Current Issues of International Commercial Arbitration in Comparative Perspective”
• City University of Hong Kong: “Breach of Valid Arbitration Agreements, Court Referral to Arbitration, Res Judicata and Parallel Proceedings in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration”
•  XII Rio de Janeiro International Arbitration Conference: “Soft Law in International Arbitration and the Applicable Law or Rules of Law to the Merits”
• Conference of the UAE Government, Abu Dhabi: “E.U. Arbitration and Mediation Law”
• IPA Conference (in Spanish): “The Reform of Swiss Arbitration Law”

Investment and ICSID Arbitration: 

• IPA Conferences (in Spanish):
• “The distinction between appeal and annulment of awards in comparative arbitration law and in ICSID arbitration” (XII Seminario Internacional de Arbitraje de Inversión IPA)
• “Pacta Sunt Servanda and Revision of Contracts by States”
• European Court of Arbitration, Milan Conference: “Treaty and Contract Claims” 
• King’s College London: “Defining Investment in Investment Arbitration: ICSID, NAFTA, Energy Charter Treaty”
• Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre ADR in Asia Conference: “Hot Topics in Investment Arbitration”
• Suffolk University, Boston : “Review of Investor-State Awards other than by ICSID Annulment”
• American University of Cairo: “ICSID Arbitration (Selected Issues)”
• Düsseldorf International Arbitration School: “E.U. Law, Investment and Arbitration”
• Union of Turkish Bars: “Current topics on the New York and the ICSID Conventions”

Investment Arbitration and EU Law: 

• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London): “Intra EU BITs, Investment Arbitration and EU Law”

• Washington Arbitration Week: “Is the EU a Recalcitrant Entity in Investment Arbitration ?”

Disputes Involving States:

• New York City Bar: “Sovereign Immunity in International and European Law”
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London: “International Mediation, Conciliation, Arbitration involving Governments”

International Construction Disputes:

• King’s College Centre for Construction Law 25th Anniversary Conference: “Sub-contracts in Comparative Construction and Arbitration Law”
• International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Meeting (Dublin, International Construction Projects Committee): “Major infrastructure projects: Jurisdiction and Applicable Law in the EU” (Article published in Clint)

International Sport Arbitration:

• ICC Paris and CIArb (Centennial Conference) : “What is International Sport-related Arbitration (CAS and beyond)”

International Art and Cultural Property Disputes:

• Key Speaker in UNESCO Conferences given worldwide for its Member States, the public and private sectors 
• Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague): “Art and Arbitration”
• International Arbitration Club of New York: “Arbitration of Art and Cultural Property Related  International Disputes: Law and Practice beyond Republic of Austria et al. v. Altmann”
• American Bar Association (Dispute Resolution Section): “Art Law and Restitution: UNESCO Conventions and International Dispute”
• French Arbitration Committee (CFA, Paris) : “Objets d’art, Cultural Property and International Arbitration”
• German Institution of Arbitration (DIS, Bertlin) “Art and Dispute Resolution”
• Speaker on various topics at the International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Meetings: San Francisco (International Art Transactions), Auckland (ADR and Art Law), etc. 
• “Current legal challenges for Museums”, St.Petersburg International Legal Forum
• American Bar Association: “The Risks Related  to Investing Internationally in Art”
• Milan Bar Association: “Art Market and the Law”
• Venise Bar Association: “Art and International Law”