2016 ASADIP Meeting
Asociación Americana de Derecho Internacional Privado organised the 2016 Meeting hosted by the University of Buenos Aires, on 10 – 11 November 2016. The opening keynote lecture on the topic “Do the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts bring any change?” given by Professor Katharina Boele-Woelki, Dean of Bucerius Law School, was introduced by Professor Diego P. Fernández Arroyo from Sciences Po Ecole de Droit.
Program
Wednesday, November 9
20:00 – Cocktail offered by The Hague Conference on Private International Law
Thursday, November 10
8:45 – 9:00 – Welcome remarks
- Mónica Pinto (Buenos Aires, Head of Law School of University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
- José A. Moreno Rodríguez (Asunción, President of ASADIP)
9:00 – 9:30 – Opening keynote lecture
Katharina Boele-Woelki (Hamburg): “Do the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts bring any change?”
Introduced by Diego P. Fernández Arroyo (Paris)
9:30 – 11:00 – Debate: Who fears non-state legislation for the regulation of international contracts?
- Ralf Michaels (Duke)
- Lauro Gama Jr (Rio de Janeiro)
- Geneviève Saumier (Montreal)
- Eugenio Hernández-Bretón (Caracas)
Moderated by Francisco Amallo (Buenos Aires)
11:00 – 11.30 – Break
11:30 – 12:45 – Regulation of international contracts: different options in recent Latin American legislation
- Pablo Debuchy (Asunción)
- María Elsa Uzal (Buenos Aires)
- Gilberto Boutin (Panama)
- Carlos Odriozola Mariscal (Mexico City)
Moderated by Virginia Aguilar (Mexico City)
12:45 – 14:45 – Lunch
14:45 – 16:15 – The future of international regulation of international contracts
- Mario A. Oyarzábal (Buenos Aires)
- Hans van Loon (The Hague)
- José Angelo Estrella Faria (UNIDROIT, Rome)
- Sandrine Clavel (Versailles)
Moderated by Dante Negro (Washington DC – OAS)
16:15 – 16:45 – Break
16:45 – 18:15 – Debate: Is the 1980 Vienna Convention on Contracts for the CISG properly applied?
- Alejandro M. Garro (New York)
- Alberto Zuppi (Buenos Aires)
- Franco Ferrari (New York)
- Jorge Oviedo Albán (Bogota)
- Carolina Iud (Buenos Aires)
Moderated by José Luis Marín (Medellín)
18:15 – 19:15 – Contractualization of secured transactions
- Spyridon Bazinas (Vienna, UNCITRAL)
- Paula María All (Santa Fe)
Moderated by Daniela Vargas (Río de Janeiro)
19:15 – Cocktail offered by the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA)
Friday, November 11
09:30 – 11:00 – Interpretation of international contracts by judges and arbitrators
- María Susana Najurieta (Buenos Aires)
- Paul Arrighi (Montevideo)
- Cristian Conejero Roos (Santiago)
- María Lilia Díaz Cordero (Buenos Aires)
Moderated by Verónica Sandler Obregón (Buenos Aires)
11:00 – 11:30 – Break
11:30 – 13:00 – Debate: Judges or arbitrators for the resolution of international contractual disputes?
- Eduardo Vescovi (Montevideo)
- Marilda Rosado (Rio de Janeiro)
- José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz (h) (Buenos Aires)
- Pedro Saghy (Caracas)
- Margie Jaime (Panama)
Moderated by Máximo Bomchil (Buenos Aires)
13:00 – 15:00 – Lunch
15:00 – 16:30 – Weak parties and contractual balance
- Claudia Madrid Martínez (Caracas)
- Juan José Obando (San José)
- Mariela Rabino (Buenos Aires)
- Luciane Klein Vieira (Campinas)
- Paula Serra Freire (Caracas)
- Juan José Cerdeira (Buenos Aires)
Moderated by Ana Elizabeth Villalta (San Salvador)
16:30 – 17:00 – Break
17:00 – 18:30 – Debate: Are there or should there be “Latin American” specificities in the law of international contracts?
- Julio César Rivera (Buenos Aires)
- Nadia de Araujo (Rio de Janeiro)
- Roberto Ruiz Díaz Labrano (Asunción)
- Aníbal Sierralta Ríos (Lima)
- Pedro Mendoza Montano (Guatemala)
Moderated by Ricardo Acevedo Peralta (San Salvador)
18:30 – 19:00 – Closing keynote lecture:
Jürgen Basedow (Hamburg): “A theory of party autonomy”
Introduced by Didier Opertti Badán (Montevideo)
19:30 – Reception hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Argentina