The Congress
Among the wide range of academic projects promoted by the CBAr annually stands the CBAr International Arbitration Conference, which is known for the excellence of its scientific program and for gathering more than 400 professionals and scholars from all over the world, who engage in a deep debate of relevant topics related to arbitration. In 2018, the 17th edition of the Conference will address the subject "The Culture of International Arbitration".
In recent years, arbitration has been gaining more relevance as a means of dispute resolution, especially between parties from different countries. The parties’ different cultural backgrounds give rise to a cultural diversity, which has numerous impacts on arbitration proceedings.
In light of this, the Conference is structured in five panels, so as to cover discussions pertaining to the existence of cultural uniformity in international arbitration, ethical issues in arbitration proceedings involving parties with different cultural backgrounds, the impact of such cultural differences on arbitration, as well as the influences of the various cultures in the decision-making process by the arbitrators and in the judicial control of arbitral awards.
We will also present opening and closing speeches that will address the discussion of whether it is possible to provide a definition of “culture” in the context of international arbitration, and if culture functions as an integrating or fragmenting factor of countries.
Certain of the importance of the issues to be discussed, we are pleased to announce the 17th edition of the CBAr International Arbitration Conference. We count on your presence at the event, which will take place between 16 and 18 of September 2018, at the Hotel Deville, in Salvador (BA).
Yours faithfully,
Flávia Bittar Neves
Program
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Young Practitioners Forum
Panel I
Cybersecurity in International Arbitration
Moderator: Ricardo de Carvalho Aprigliano
Panelists: Ana Carolina Dall'Agnol, Filipe Greco, Patrícia Sá Moreira de Figueiredo Ferraz, Luíza Kömel and Marie-Isabelle Barretto Delleur
- Is it true to say that parties expect that the providers of dispute resolution services and other participants will take cybersecurity measures to safeguard digital information from unauthorized access and disclosure? Is this true in national and international cases?
- Should arbitral institutions expressly establish duties for the parties, counsel and arbitrators to implement reasonable measures to avoid intrusion?
- Should arbitrators disclose their data security practices to parties and counsel?
- Should arbitral institutions develop shared secured platforms for data storage and transmission that would be available to parties?
- Should professional organizations develop cybersecurity checklists or guidance notes for arbitrators, counsel and other participants?
- The Draft Cybersecurity Protocol for International Arbitration - Consultation Draft (ICCA, CPR and NYC Bar Association) – suggests a procedural framework for developing specific cybersecurity measures in individual cases instead of offering specific measures. Is this the best way forward?
- Cybersecurity in Practice. How does the establishment of security protocols for the storage and transfer of sensitive information work?
- Cybersecurity Breaches. The establishment of a process of notification of the attacks and for correcting or mitigating the attack. The PCA case.
Coffee Break
Panel II
The Arbitrator and the Decision-Making Process
Moderator: Rafael Peteffi da Silva
- What is the appropriate standards of bias: (i) Evident partiality (2nd Circuit); (ii) an impression of possible bias (9th Circuit); justifiable doubts (Civil Law); in order to analyze the individual conduct of arbitrators?
Speaker: Berardino di Vecchia Neto - Can diversity in the Arbitral Tribunal contribute to hinder a false consensus or an appearance of bias caused by repeated players?
Speaker: Lenora Hage Santos Bento de Faria donwload - Does the incentive to issue a compromise award or to ‘split the baby’ really exist in commercial and investment arbitration? Is there an extremeness aversion by arbitrators?
Speaker: Juan Felipe Merizalde Urdaneta - Are arbitrators under the influence of anchoring effects and inadmissible evidence?
Speaker: Felipe Vollbrecht Sperandio donwload - Are arbitrators vulnerable to hindsight bias?
Speaker: Gloria M. Alvarez donwload
Break
Main Event Program
Opening ceremony
The culture of international arbitration: definition and relevance.
Speaker: Gary B. Born
Closing
Opening cocktail
Panel I
Influences of cultural systems in the international arbitration: the barrier or the harmonization factor
Moderator: José Antonio Fichtner
- International Arbitration versus Domestic Arbitration
Speaker: Pedro A. Batista Martins - Commercial Arbitration versus Investment Arbitration
Speaker: Patricia Nacimiento - The UNCITRAL Model Law summarizes international arbitration culture?
Speaker: Guido Santiago Tawil donwload
Coffee Break
Cultural aspects in international conflicts
Speaker: Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo
Lunch
Panel III
The culture in the judicial review of the arbitration award
Moderator: Ana Serra e Moura
- Local culture influences the interpretation of the New York Convention?
Speaker: Diego P. Fernández Arroyo donwload - The culture of the State court judge and the limits for declaring the arbitral award null and void
Speaker: Christophe Seraglini - Culture is a component of international public policy?
Speaker: Thierry Tomasi
Coffee Break
Panel IV
Culture in the decision-making process
Moderator: Christian Sahb Batista Lopes
- The decision-making process in the challenge of arbitrators
Speaker: Marcelo Antonio Muriel donwload - The deliberations between arbitrators of different cultures. The strength of an argument depends on cultural factors?
Speaker: Alexander Wilbraham - The decision-making process of an arbitrator is different from a State court judge?
Speaker: Ministro Ruy Rosado de Aguiar Junior
Closing
Panel V
Impacts of cultural difference in the arbitration proceedings
Moderator: Eliane Cristina Carvalho Teixeira
- The written submissions
Speaker: Carlos Alberto Carmona donwload - The evidence
Speaker: Deva Villanúa Gómez - The hearings
Speaker: Rodrigo Garcia da Fonseca
Closing lecture
Culture in international arbitration: integration or fragmentation?
Speaker: Stavros L. Brekoulakis
Closing delivered by the President of CBAr
Brunch
Closing
Venue
Deville Hotel Deville Prime Salvador
R. Passárgada, s/n - Itapuã, Salvador/BA, Brasil
20 minutes from the airport.
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Organizing Committee
Giovanni Ettore Nanni - President - CBAr
André de Albuquerque Cavalcanti Abbud - Vice President - CBAr
Debora Visconte - Treasurer - CBAr
Isabel Cantidiano - Director - CBAr
Speakers
Main Event
Adriana Braghetta
Partner at L.O. Baptista.
Alexander Wilbraham
Counsel at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Ana Serra e Moura
ICC Deputy Secretary General (Paris).
Carlos Alberto Carmona
Partner at Marques Rosado Toledo Cesar & Carmona Advogados.
Christian Sahb Batista Lopes
Partner at Vilas Boas, Lopes e Fratari Advogados.
Christophe Seraglini
Partner at Betto Seraglini.
Deva Villanúa
Partner at Armesto & Associados.
Diego P. Fernández Arroyo
Professor at the School of Law of Sciences Po.
Eliane Carvalho
Partner at Machado Meyer Advogados.
Erika Levin
Partner at Lewis, Baach, Kaufmann, Middlemiss PLLC.
Gary Born
Partner at WilmerHale.
Guido Tawil
Partner at M&M Bomchil Abogados.
José Antônio Fichtner
Partner at Andrade & Fichtner Advogados.
Marcelo Muriel
Partner at Muriel Medici Franco Advogados.
Patricia Nacimiento
Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills.
Pedro A. Batista Martins
Partner at Batista Martins Advogados.
Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo
Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Rodrigo Garcia da Fonseca
Partner at Fonseca e Salles Lima Advogados Associados.
Ministro Ruy Rosado de Aguiar Junior
Partner at Ruy Rosado de Aguiar Advogados Associados.
Selma Lemes
Partner at Selma Lemes Advogados.
Sofia Martins
Partner at Miranda & Associados.
Stavros Brekoulakis
Professor at Queen Mary University of London.
Thierry Tomasi
Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills.
Young Practitioners Forum
Ana Carolina Dall'Agnol
Associate at PLMJ Advogados
Berardino Di Vecchia Neto
Associate at Marques Rosado Toledo Cesar & Carmona Advogados.
Felipe Sperandio
Counsel at Clyde & Co.
Filipe Greco
Associate at Grebler Advogados
Gloria Alvarez
Lecturer at University of Aberdeen.
Juan Felipe Merizalde
Special Legal Consultant at Dechert LLP.
Lenora Hage
Deputy Secretary-General at Câmara de Conciliação, Mediação e Arbitragem CIESP/FIESP.
Luíza Kömel
Legal Deputy General Secretary at CAM-CCBC.
Marie Isabelle Delleur
Associate at Linklaters LLP.
Patrícia Figueiredo Ferraz
Deputy Counsel of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (São Paulo).
Rafael Peteffi
Adjunct Professor at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.
Ricardo de Carvalho Aprigliano
Partner at Aprigliano Advogados.
Photos - 2018
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Official Hotels and Transfer
Hotel reservations must be made ONLY by e-mail or phone.
Minimum stay of 3 nights, from 15th to September 18th / 2018.
The daily rate for all hotels include breakfast, taxes and fees.
The CBAr Congress Organization will provide shuttle according the below time table:
SHUTTLE FROM OFFICIAL HOTELS TO CONGRESS HOTEL AND VICE VERSA
Click here to see the shuttles schedule.
at the hotel
Novotel Salvador Hangar Aeroporto
Business
15 minutes by car to the Conference hotel.
International business standard.
15 minutes from the airport.
Airport shuttle.
Transportation is needed to go to the beaches and restaurants of Salvador.
Rates:
Check-in: 12h - Check-out: 12h
Distance:
Hotel/Deville - 2km | 15min
Hotel/Airport – 3,6km | 10min
Avenida Luis Viana, 13145
São Cristovão - Salvador, Bahia
41500-300, Brasil
Reserve now:
(+55 71) 3505-4300
h8185-re@accor.com.br
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Deville Prime Salvador
Turism & Business (Congress Hotel)
The hotel where the Conference will take place.
Located in the Itapuã neighborhood.
The hotel does not have a beach view.
20 minutes from the airport.
Transportation is needed to go to the beaches and restaurants of Salvador.
Rates:
Check-in: 14h - Check-out: 12h
Distance:
Airport/Hotel – 9,5km | 20min
Rua Passargada
Itapuã
- Salvador, Bahia
41620-430, Brasil
Reserve now:
(+55) 0800-703-1866
reservas.ctr@deville.com.br
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Iara Beach Hotel Salvador
Pousada Boutique
10 minutes by car to the Conference hotel.
Outdoor swimming pool.
At the Itapuã beach.
20 minutes from the airport.
Transportation is needed to go to the beaches and restaurants of Salvador.
Rates:
Check-in: 14h - Check-out: 12h
Distance:
Hotel/Deville – 2km | 5min
Hotel/Airport – 10km | 20min
Rua do Teatro
Itapuã
- Salvador, Bahia
41620-445, Brasil
Reserve now:
(+55 71) 3014-8888
reservas@iarabeach.com.br
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Mar Brasil Hotel
Hotel
Overlooking the sea, on the quiet Lighthouse Beach of Itapuã beach. The Hotel offers the best seafood options in the city, the Casa di Vina, the place where the poet Vinicius de Moraes lived with Gessy. In a memorial, there are exposed photos and objects that were part of the life of the couple.
Rates:
Check-in: 14h - Check-out: 12h
Distance:
Hotel / Deville Prime - 750m / 10 minutes walking
Hotel / Airport - 9km / 13 minutes
Rua Flamengo, 44
Farol de Itapuã - Salvador, Bahia
41635-480, Brasil
Reserve now:
(+55 71) 3285-7339 / 99711-3374
reservas@marbrasilhotel.com.br
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Transfer Airport
Private Transfer - Executive Car
Official Company: Mavir Turismo
Prices:
71 3450 0756 / 71 99165 9281 / 71 99179 2533
virginialoiola@mavirtur.com.br
Please, visit the website for more information about shuttle and tour services.
Novotel guests
Courtesy shuttle bus will be available.
The bus will be operating in a circular route Airport / Hotel / Airport, every 1h from the hotel and 30min from the airport.
Hours of Operation:
Airport – Hotel: from 8:30am to 9:30pm
Hotel – Airport: from 8:00am to 9:00pm
UBER – Estimated cost
TAXI - Estimated cost
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