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Philine Wehling
Dr Philine Wehling has primary responsibility for UNIDROIT’s work on corporate
sustainability due diligence in global value chains. She is also responsible for
the implementation of the UNCITRAL/UNIDROIT Model Law on Warehouse Receipts and
advises on the other instruments related to agricultural trade and development
as well as the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts. Since
2020, she regularly lectures on international commercial law at the Master’s in
Law Programme at the International Training Centre of the ILO.
Prior to joining UNIDROIT in 2019, for about eight years, she worked as a Legal
Advisor at the UNFAO Legal Office in Rome. She advised member countries on legal
and institutional aspects related to trade in agro-food products, sustainable
agricultural development, and responsible natural resources management, and
managed and implemented both normative and project (field) work in over 20
countries. She also served as a government lawyer at the Federal Ministry of
Justice in Berlin for almost two years, where she worked in international
cooperation on consumer law and represented the Ministry in expert committees at
the OECD and UNCTAD.
Philine is admitted to the German Bar and holds a PhD in International Law with
highest honors from Heidelberg University, completed at the Max-Planck-Institute
for Comparative Public Law and International Law, for which she was awarded the
2018 Prize for Excellence in Research of the Margot-und-Friedrich-Becke Stiftung
zu Heidelberg. She further holds a Master’s Degree in Law from Hamburg
University and a Law Degree from Passau University. She completed undergraduate
studies in Arabic Literature and Politics at Damascus University, and studies in
French Culture at the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Working languages: Arabic, English, French, German
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Christopher Glasscock
Christopher Glasscock is an associate on the dispute resolution team at LOVILL.
His areas of practice include national and international litigation in civil and
commercial matters, as well as experience in international arbitrations under
the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, and CECAP Rules, in disputes involving construction,
logistics, joint ventures and States representation.
He has a degree in Law and Political Science from the Universidad Católica Santa
María la Antigua de Panamá and has a Master of Laws (LL.M) in International
Business and Economic Law with a Certificate in International Arbitration and
Dispute Resolution from Georgetown University Law Center.
Among other relevant aspects, Christopher developed his international labor
expertise working at the headquarters of the International Court of Arbitration
of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), in Paris (2018), and the
International Arbitration Department of an international law firm in Washington
DC (2020). In addition, Christopher publishes and regularly participates in
dispute resolution and public international law issues.
In 2022, he founded Panama Young Arbitrators, the country’s first organization
aimed at young professionals and students interested in developing experience in
national and international arbitration.
Christopher is a national Correspondent of UNIDROIT, where he is responsible for
providing input to the organization’s Secretariat and act as informal ambassador
of UNIDROIT for missions and events held in the Republic of Panama.
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Milos Levrinc
Professor Levrinc is specialised in private international law, including the law
applicable to effects of contractual and non-contractual relationships,
recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, etc. He has written articles
in the broader space of commercial law, such as “Assignments of receivables in
civil and commercial matters under the laws of the Slovak Republic” / Miloš
Levrinc. In: Access to justice in Eastern Europe : AJEE : peer-reviewed journal.
– Kyjev : Publishing House VD “Dakor”, 2023. – ISSN 2663-0575. – Vol. 6, no. 2
(2023), pp. 122-134. His expertise relates to a number of UNIDROIT projects,
including the Model Law on Factoring and its Guide to Enactment, initiatives
concerning the law applicable to digital assets, tokens and CBDCs, as well as
some aspects of the project on Best Practices for Effective Enforcement.
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Theodora Kostoula
Theodora Kostoula is a Legal Consultant at the International Institute for the
Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). She is mainly responsible for UNIDROIT’s
Projects on Economic Assessment of International Commercial Law Reform,
Implementation of and Compliance with International Commercial Law Treaties and
Digital Assets and Private Law.
Prior to joining UNIDROIT, she worked for several years in private practice at a
Greek law firm and at the EU agency Fusion for Energy in Barcelona. Theodora
also worked as a Teaching Associate in FinTech and digital currencies courses at
the Florence School of Banking and Finance, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced
Studies, and held positions as Visiting Scholar at Copenhagen Business School
and as Sir Roy Goode Scholar at UNIDROIT.
Theodora is admitted to the Bar Association of Thessaloniki (Greece) and is
currently a PhD Candidate at the European University Institute (EUI). She holds
an LL.M in Transnational Commercial law (International Hellenic University,
Thessaloniki) and a Degree in Law (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). Her
main research and publication areas include distributed ledger technology,
insolvency law and secured transactions.
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Reinhard Zimmermann
I have been a member of the Working Group preparing the UNIDROIT Principles of
International Commercial Contracts 2010 and 2016. My main areas of research are:
Law of obligations and law of succession in historical and comparative
perspective; relationship between the English common law and continental civil
law; mixed legal systems (in particular Scotland and South Africa);
harmonization of European private law.
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Marcel Fontaine
Marcel Fontaine is Professor emeritus of the Law Faculty of the Catholic
University of Louvain, where he taught the law of obligations, the law of
contracts and the law of insurance. He has taught as a guest professor in
several other universities. From 1979 till 2010, he took part in the working
group which elaborated the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial
Contracts. For 17 years, he has chaired another international working group
devoted to the systematic analysis of specific clauses appearing in
international contracts. He has prepared a Draft Uniform Act on the Law of
Contracts for the 17 African member States of OHADA. He has been Secretary
General, and is now Honorary President of the International Insurance Law
Association (AIDA). He has long experience as a commercial arbitrator, domestic
as well as international, ad hoc as well as institutional. He is the author of
many publications. He is doctor honoris causa of the Universities of Geneva,
Montpellier, Bourgogne and Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
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Irini Stamatoudi
Irini Stamatoudi is a Law Professor at the University of Nicosia (Cyprus) and a
lawyer at the Supreme Court of Athens (Greece). She is specialised in Copyright
and in Cultural Heritage Law. She holds degrees from the University of Athens –
Greece (Law Degree) and the University of Leicester – UK (LL.M., Ph.D.). From
2007 – 2018 she was the General Director of the Hellenic Copyright Organisation
(competent governmental organisation for copyright matters). She has taught at
the Law School of the University of Leicester, on the joint LL.M. of the
University of Turin, ILO, and WIPO, at the International Hellenic University, at
the Academy of the World Intellectual Property Organization and on several other
academic courses. For many years she acted as a legal counselor to the Ministry
of Culture on issues of illegal trafficking of antiquities where she handled the
famous return cases of masterpieces from the J. P. Getty Museum (in Los Angeles)
and from the Leon Levy & Shelby White collection (NY). Since 1999 she has
participated in several negotiation committees on the issue of Parthenon Marbles
and is currently a member of the Ministry of Culture Advisory Committee on the
Parthenon Marbles. She has published fourteen books in copyright and in cultural
heritage law (whilst three more are in the pipeline) in Greece and abroad and
several articles in academic journals worldwide. Some of her writings are
considered internationally works of reference (e.g., I. Stamatoudi, Multimedia
products as copyright works, Cambridge University Press, 2002, (reprint in
paperback in January 2008, Kindle Edition 2010); I. Stamatoudi, Cultural
Property Law and Restitution. A Commentary to International Conventions and
European Union Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham (UK) – Northampton (US),
2011, I. Stamatoudi and P. Torremans (eds), European Union Copyright Law. A
Commentary, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham (UK) – Northampton (US), 2014,
and 2021 (2nd ed.)).
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Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm
Professor Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm is Chair in Private International Law at
Edinburgh Law School. She has widely published in private international law and
has taught and researched in Europe and Latin America. Her work is published in
English, Spanish and Portuguese. Her research focuses on the intersections
between private international law and other disciplines, including international
commercial arbitration, shipping law, migration, sustainable development and
legal education.
Professor Ruiz Abou-Nigm is President of the European Law Faculties Association
(ELFA), Vice-President of the American Association of Private International Law
(ASADIP), and Member of the Scientific Council of the European Association of
Private International Law (EAPIL).
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Ole Böger
Dr Ole Böger is a Judge in Banking and Criminal matters at the Hanseatic Court
of Appeal (Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht) in Bremen, Germany, and a Lecturer
at the University of Bremen. Previously, he has been, amongst others, a Desk
Officer at the German Federal Ministry of Justice and for Consumer Protection
(2013-2016), a Legal Officer at UNIDROIT working on the Principles of Close-Out
Netting (2012-2013) and a research assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for
Foreign and Comparative Private Law in Hamburg, Germany (2003-2008). He has
represented the German government in UNCITRAL Working Groups and at UNIDROIT,
specifically in the preparation and adoption of the UNIDROIT MAC Protocol, and
he is an Ex officio Observer to the Preparatory Commission for the Establishment
of the International Registry for MAC equipment. Recently, he has been an
external consultant to secured transactions law reform projects of the World
Bank in Suriname (2016), Greece (2020) and Lebanon (2021). Dr Böger holds law
degrees of the University of Göttingen in Germany and King’s College London (UK)
and he has authored numerous publications with a focus on international secured
transactions law and the law of payment services.
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Iacopo Donati
Professor Iacopo Donati is the UNIDROIT/Bank of Italy Chair Holder and is mainly
responsible for assisting in the Bank Insolvency project. He is Professor of
Corporate and Insolvency Law at the University of Siena, and coordinates the
research project ‘Pro.Re.Ba.’ (Proportionating rules on bank crisis prevention
and management to the case of retail banks), which has received funding from the
Italian Ministry of University. He has previously taught corporate law at the
University of Venice ‘Ca’ Foscari’, at the University of Florence and at the
University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’.
Professor Donati is the author of several publications on corporate law,
restructuring, insolvency law, and bank crisis management. On the same topics,
he has been invited as a speaker to various international and national
conferences and participated in some high-impact international, European, and
national research projects. Professor Donati’s education includes a Ph.D. in
Corporate Law (University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’), an LLM in Corporate Governance
(Stanford Law School), and a Law Degree with honors (University of Florence). He
is qualified as an attorney in Italy and in the State of New York (USA).
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Giulia Stella Previti
Giulia Stella Previti is a Legal Officer at the International Institute for the
Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), based in Rome. Giulia has primary
responsibility for UNIDROIT’s projects on the Legal Nature of Voluntary Carbon
Credits and on Digital Assets and Private Law.
Prior to joining UNIDROIT, Giulia was a Senior Vice President at Burford
Capital, where she analyzed opportunities to invest in a wide array of legal
assets, specializing in evaluating international arbitration claims and awards.
In addition, Giulia spent about seven years in private practice at Freshfields
in New York, where she was a Senior Associate focusing on international
arbitration and litigation matters. Giulia also clerked in US federal court for
Senior Judge Jack B. Weinstein in the Eastern District of New York.
Giulia is admitted to the New York Bar and obtained her Juris Doctor from New
York University School of Law. She has a Masters of Science from the London
School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts from University
College London.
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Priscila Pereira de Andrade
Priscila Pereira de Andrade works as a Legal Officer at UNIDROIT. She is mainly
responsible for the Agricultural Development and Private Law projects jointly
developed with IFAD and FAO (Legal Structure of Agricultural Enterprise,
Agricultural Land Investment Contracts and Contract Farming). Priscila holds a
Ph.D. in International Law from the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
(France), a Master Degree in International Relations from the University Center
of Brasília (Brazil), and a specialisation degree in International Environmental
Law from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). Before
joining UNIDROIT, she worked for the International Institute for Sustainable
Development (IISD) and was an assistant professor at the University of Pisa
(Italy), as well as an associate professor at the Master in Law Program of the
University Center of Brasília.
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Keni Kariuki
Keni Kariuki works as a Legal Consultant/MAECI Chairholder at UNIDROIT. He is
mainly responsible for assisting in the “Private Law and Agricultural
Development” projects jointly developed with IFAD and FAO (Collaborative Legal
Structures for Agricultural Enterprises, Agricultural Land Investment Contracts
and Contract Farming). Keni holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Political Economy from
SOAS University of London (United Kingdom), a Master’s degree in International
Human Rights Globalisation and Justice from Keele University (United Kingdom),
he completed his Bar Vocational Course (BVC) at Nottingham Trent University
(United Kingdom), and has a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in Law and Politics (Dual
Degree) from Keele University. Before joining UNIDROIT, he worked for the
African Union Commission (AUC) and as a consultant for other multilateral actors
such as Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), FAO, and Bread for
the World, among others.
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Faruk Kerem Giray
Dr Giray graduated from Istanbul University’s Law Faculty in 1998 before
obtaining a postgraduate degree in EU Law from Marmara University European Union
Institute in 2000. He carried out academic research at the London University
Advanced Legal Studies Institute for his doctorate thesis in 2004. He was
awarded a Ph.D. in Private Law from Istanbul University’s Social Sciences
Institute in 2007. He worked as a research assistant from 1999 to 2007 at
Istanbul University’s Law Faculty in the Private International Law Department.
Then, he was appointed as a military judge to the 2nd Army Commandership for
military service.
He was appointed as an assistant professor in 2008. While conducting research at
Georgetown University’s School of Law, he was granted with a scholarship from
the Turkish Higher Education Council and Georgetown University for the 2011-2012
academic year. He simultaneously conducted research on ICSID arbitration at the
World Bank and also at the Library of Congress.
Dr Giray was appointed as an associate professor in 2013 due to his articles and
book named “Compensation Arising from Expropriation in International Investment
Arbitration and Methods Used in the Calculation of Compensation”. He was
appointed as a full-time professor in the same department in 2020 due to his
articles, projects and a new book named “Limitation Periods in International
Private and Procedural Law”.
In 2022 he was appointed as a Correspondent of Turkey by the International
Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT).
He gives courses on Private International Law and International Civil Procedural
Law for undergraduates, as well as International Family and Child Law,
Disability Rights and International Investment Law-ICSID Arbitration for
postgraduate students of the Law Faculty and Social Sciences Institute at
Istanbul University, while carrying out administrative duties at the same time.
Currently, he is pursuing additional postgraduate studies on Tax Law.
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Alvaro Galindo
Mr Alvaro Galindo is an International Counsel advising on dispute resolution
matters, particularly those involving Latin American jurisdictions. Currently,
he is the Dean of the Law School at Universidad de las Americas. His practice
focuses on disputes between sovereign states and state-owned entities and
private companies. He has been recognised by The Legal 500 Latin America and was
noted in this publication as “outstandingly intelligent” and for his
“incomparable capacity for coordinating, planning, strategic assessment, and for
his diplomatic approach”.
He was as member of the international arbitration practice at Dechert LLP in
Washington, D.C. He also served as the Director of the International Affairs and
Arbitration Unit for the Republic of Ecuador’s Attorney General’s Office. He
acted as a legal consultant for the International Centre for Settlement of
Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington, D.C., and as regional director for
the Latin American Development Corporation, where he coordinated the committee
in charge of drafting the Arbitration Law of Ecuador.
Mr Galindo has significant teaching experience in the areas of dispute
resolution, international investment, and arbitration law. He has authored
numerous publications and articles related to arbitration and international
investment law.
Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, with
a course on Advanced Topics in International Investment Arbitration and Adjunct
Professor of Practical Aspects of Arbitration (Spanish course) at American
University Washington College of Law.
Mr Galindo has represented sovereign states in international and regional
forums: the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD; the
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, UNCITRAL.
Member of the Court of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and arbitrator
in various arbitration centres in Latin America. In September 2021, he was
appointed to the list of arbitrators under the ICSID Convention.
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My main areas of expertise related to UNIDROIT work include international
commercial contracts, international civil proceedings and private international
law.
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Eduard Derek Wille
Derek was permanently appointed to the Supreme Court (now renamed the High
Court) as a Judge, with effect from 1 November 2017. This after being in private
practice for nearly thirty years. His main interest areas and focus areas are in
commercial law, with a particular interest in Private International Law.
Derek has already used the UNIDROIT Principles and the UNIDROIT Model Clauses in
several commercial High Court judgments since June 2022. He has benefitted
immeasurably from being exposed to the workings of UNIDROIT. Put in another
way, “my eyes have been opened”.
Derek has used the UNIDROIT Principles and the UNIDROIT Model Clauses as an
interpretive aid by way of application in several judgments that have since been
reported as precedent jurisprudence in South Africa. He has also effectively
utilised the UNIDROIT Principles and the UNIDROIT Model Clauses to supplement
domestic law in his judgments by referencing the Constitution of the Republic of
South Africa.
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Mr Antenor Madruga
Antenor Madruga is a founding partner of the law firm Madruga BTW and recognised
as a leading Brazilian lawyer in complex litigations and negotiations involving
government criminal and administrative proceedings, particularly in
multijurisdictional cases. He was the lead counsel in several of the major
white-collar cases in Brazil. He is currently a member of the Self-Regulation
Board of the Brazilian Federation of Banks (FEBRABAN). In his former career as a
Federal Attorney, Mr. Madruga occupied several positions in the Brazilian
government, among them: Director of the Department of Assets Recovery and
International Legal Cooperation of the Ministry of Justice, Coordinator of the
National Strategy Against Money Laundering (ENCCLA); Board of the Brazilian
Financial Intelligence Unit (COAF); and National Secretary of Justice. Ph.D. in
International Law.
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Ms Valesca Raizer
Full Professor at the Department of Law at the Federal University of Espírito
Santo -UFES. Professor of the Master’s Program in Procedural Law at UFES.
Postgraduate in International Economics and Finance and PhD in Law and
International Relations from the University of Barcelona. Member of the American
Association of Private International Law – currently holds the position of Vice
President of Communication and Publishing. Member of the Brazilian Academy of
International Law; the Brazilian Association Elas no Processo; the Brazilian
Association of Procedural Law; and the Brazilian Association of Women in the
Legal Career. Member of the International and Latin American Networks of
International Civil Procedure. Coordinator of the Research Group and the
Jurisprudence Observatory – Labyrinth of the Codification of International Civil
Procedural Law. Researcher in the project “Keys for Digital and Algorithmic
Justice with a Gender Perspective. Practice Areas: Public International Law.
Private International Law. International Civil Procedural Law. Comparative law.
International Trade Law. Theory and Comparison between Systems. Main areas
related to the work of UNIDROIT: Civil Procedure; ELI Model European Rules of
Civil Procedure; ALI/UNIDROIT Principles; Best Practices for Effective
Enforcement; Cross-Border Investment; Law and Technology; Arbitration;
Intellectual Property and other subjects.
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Mr Lauro Gama Jr.
Mr Gama Jr. is a Brazilian lawyer and arbitrator. Currently, he holds the
position of Adjunct Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio
(PUC-Rio), where he teaches Private International Law and International
Commercial Arbitration. He is a correspondent of the UNIDROIT since 2016 and a
member of the CISG Advisory Council. Mr Gama Jr. acted as counsel and arbitrator
in more than 100 cases, under the rules of ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL and Brazilian
arbitral institutions. His experience includes corporate law, M&A transactions,
shareholders agreements, major construction contracts, built-to-suit contracts,
insurance disputes, international sale of goods, services, consulting,
joint-ventures and transfer of technology. He has authored a number of books and
articles related to the UNIDROIT Principles. In 2016, Lauro lectured at the
Hague Academy of International Law on the topic of “The UNIDROIT Principles as
the law applicable to commercial contracts”, which was published in vol. 406 of
the Collected Courses.
Lauro participated in the UNIDROIT working groups which produced the UNIDROIT
Principles of International Commercial Contracts, 3rd edition (2005-2010), and
the Model Clauses for the use of the UNIDROIT Principles (2012-2013). Moreover,
he worked on the Portuguese version of the Black Letter rules of the 2016
UNIDROIT Principles, and was one of the five experts who collaborated with
UNCITRAL, HCCH and UNIDROIT to develop the “Legal Guide to Uniform Instruments
in the Area of International Commercial Contracts, with a Focus on Sales”, which
was published in 2021.
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Mr José Augusto Fontoura Costa
Mr Fontoura Costa researches and teaches International Business Law and
Comparative Law at the University of São Paulo. He focuses on issues such as:
(i) arbitration; (ii) civil procedure; (iii) commodities production and trade;
(iv) company law; (v) contract law and clauses; (vi) energy; (vii) information
technologies; (viii) infrastructure; (ix) intellectual rights; (x) negotiable
instruments; and (xi) transport law. He also acts as lawyer and arbitrator.
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Mr Márcio Ferro Catapani
Mr Ferro Catapani is a Federal Judge and Professor at the Federal University of
São Paulo. He has experience in research and teaching of commercial law and
financial market regulation. His main areas of expertise related to the work of
UNIDROIT, include: (i) legal structure of agricultural enterprises; (ii) capital
markets and banking law; (iii) bank insolvency; (iv) netting; (v) factoring;
(vi) franchising; (vii) leasing; (viii) negotiable instruments; (ix) security
Interests.
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Fabio holds a PhD (summa cum laude) in Civil Law, with research on secured
transactions and security rights, from Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2) and
University of São Paulo, Brazil.
He is lawyer in Brazil, acting in the field of real estate law and financing,
including receivables financing through the capital markets for the real estate
industry.
He was also a delegate of Brazil in UNCITRAL Working Group VI (Security
Interests) and he has assisted multiple organizations and governments in
drafting secured credit and public registries’ reforms, including in Angola,
Brazil, Madagascar, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe.
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Professor Sheelagh McCracken is Professor of Finance Law at the University of
Sydney, Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
She has lectured on finance law in various centres in Australia and around the
Asia-Pacific region, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo. She
writes and speaks regularly on secured transactions law, focusing in particular
on the development, operation and application of personal property securities
legislation in Australia.
A graduate of the University of Cambridge, she obtained her PhD from the
University of Sydney, which was subsequently published in the UK as The Banker’s
Remedy of Set-Off and is currently in its third edition. Other major
publications include a standard Australian text, Everett & McCracken’s Banking
and Financial Institutions Law which she has co-authored since its first
publication over 30 years ago and is now in its 9th edition.
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Professor of Space Law and Emeritus of International Law, Sapienza University of
Rome. Vice-President of Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI).
Chairman of European Centre for Space Law (ECSL/ESA). General Counsel of
International Astronautical Federation (IAF). Member of the Advisory Council of
European Space Policy Institute (ESPI). Senior Legal Advisor of Italian Space
Agency (ASI).
Legal Expert at Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Italian Delegate to the
2001 Cape Town Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of the UNIDROIT Convention
on International Interests in High Value Mobile Equipment and Protocol on
Matters specific to Aircraft Assets.
Chair of the Committee of Governmental Experts for the preparation of a Protocol
to the Cape Town Convention on Matters specific to Space Assets (2003-2012).
Chair of the Committee of the Whole of the 2012 Berlin Diplomatic Conference,
which adopted the Protocol.
Since 2013, Chair of the Space Preparatory Commission, set up as Provisional
Supervisory Authority for establishing the International Registry for Space
Assets under the guidance of UNIDROIT General Assembly. Since 2010, UNIDROIT
correspondent for Italy.
Italian delegate to UNCOPUOS, since 1997. Chairman of Legal Subcommittee
(2004-2006) and Co-chair of Expert Group on Regulatory Regimes of the Working
Group on Long-Term Sustainability of the Outer Space Activities (2010-2018).
Since 2007, Italian delegate to the Council of the EU for the Negotiation of the
International Code of Conduct on Outer Space Activities (ICoC). Chair of the
multilateral negotiations on ICoC held at the United Nations (New York, 2015).
Member of two UN Group of Governmental Experts on Outer Space Transparency and
Confidence-Building Measures (TCBMs, 2011-2013), and on Practical Measures for
the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS, 2018-2019). Member of the
Specialized Panel of Permanent Court of Arbitration pursuant to Optional Rules
on Disputes relating to Outer Space Activities.
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Olga Fonotova
Ms Olga Fonotova is an Associate Professor of the Faculty of Law (Department of
Legal Regulation of Business) at the Russian National Research University
“Higher School of Economics” in Moscow. She holds a PhD degree cum laude in
private law / private international law from the Lomonosov Moscow State
University (2006). Her academic and teaching interests cover private
international law, international and national commercial law, with a focus on
unified and non-state legal regulation of cross-border commerce.
Olga is a Russian law qualified practicing lawyer in the sphere of national and
international commercial and corporate law with 20+ years’ experience in leading
law firms. As part of her legal practice, she has advised multinational
corporations on the setting up of multi-jurisdictional commercial relations, on
the formation / termination of international joint ventures, restructuring of
assets, and financing / refinancing of projects. For her work on commercial and
corporate legal matters she was included in the international rating of leading
lawyers “The Best Lawyers® in Russia” (2018 – 2022).
She is a UNIDROIT alumna (2011) and a Correspondent of UNIDROIT in Russia (2023
– 2025). From 2016 to 2021 Olga was a member of the ICC Commission on Commercial
Law and Practice (ICC CLP) and a member of the Association of European Business
(AEB) in Moscow.
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Francisco Sánchez-Gamborino
Correspondent of UNIDROIT since 1998
Attorney since 1978, specialist in international road transport law and
transport insurance law.
Doctor in Law. Thesis, concerning liability of the carrier (cum laude).
Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Law.
Vice-president of the Committee on Legal Affairs of the International Road
Transport Union (IRU, Geneva, Switzerland)
Chairman of the “ad hoc” Working Group for the updating of the IRU 1976 model of
CMR consignment note, which was approved by IRU in 2007.
Member of the International Legal Assistance Network agreed by the IRU.
Consultant to the United Nations in traffic and road transport international
conventions.
Member of the Board of Directors and President of the Working Group “Transport
Insurance” in AIDA (International Association of Insurance Law), Spanish section
– SEAIDA.
Lecturer in various University Master degrees (postgraduate courses) and speaker
in various national and international congresses on Transport Law, transport
insurance, etc.
Author of several books (including the first book in Spain dealing with the
whole CMR Convention) and hundreds of articles about Transport Law, Transport
Insurance and other transport related activities. Member of the Editorial Staff
of the legal journal European Transport Law (Antwerpen, Belgium).
Sanchez-Gamborino’s opinions have been quoted several times as legal literature
by Spanish Courts of Justice when deciding transport cases.
Speech (November 2008) before the Spanish Parliament when National Transport
Law, now in force, was being worded. His opinions quoted in the Bulletin of the
Spanish Senate (September 2009).
As to his relationship with UNIDROIT, his texts published several times in the
Uniform Law Review (nr. 2001-3, pp. 643-648; nr. 2006-3, pp. 677-682; nr.
2016-4, pp. 561-573) and attended meetings at Rome, such as when drafting the
CRTD (Convention on the civil liability for damages on the transport of
dangerous goods), May 1986, jointly with the Delegation of IRU.
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Ben Schuijling
Ben Schuijling’s expertise spans the broad field of business law, with an
emphasis on secured transactions, restructuring and insolvency. In relation to
the work of UNIDROIT his areas of expertise include security interests,
factoring, leasing, commercial contracts, agency and intermediated securities.
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Sandeepa Bhat
Prof. (Dr.) Sandeepa Bhat is working as a Professor of Law and Director of
Centre for Aviation and Space Laws at National University of Juridical Sciences,
Kolkata. He has the teaching and research experience of nearly twenty years. He
was a University First Rank holder with double gold medals for his LL.M. and a
University Third Rank holder with gold medal for top-scoring his college during
LL.B. His five Major Research Projects are sponsored by World Bank, ISRO, the WB
Judicial Academy, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Environment, Forest and
Climate Change. Apart from being UNIDROIT Correspondent for India, he has the
distinction of being a member of the American Society of International Law,
International Academy of Space Law, and the International Institute of Space
Law. Dr. Bhat has published eight books and more than fifty five articles in the
journals of international and national repute. He has presented over hundred and
forty research papers in the international and national conferences including
the coveted International Astronautical Congress, as well as in international
conferences held at Jakarta, Seoul, Sharjah, Singapore, Changsha, Paris, Austin,
Southampton and Cambridge. He also has the distinction of being a member of
Indian Space Research Organization’s Expert Group for drafting the National
Space Act for India.
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Bruce Whittaker
Bruce Whittaker is an Honorary Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, University
of Melbourne. Before joining the Law School, Bruce was for many years a lawyer
and partner at law firm Ashurst.
Bruce’s legal expertise is in the field of banking and finance law, with a
particular focus on secured transactions law.
Bruce has been involved in a number of UNIDROIT projects. He was a member of the
Australian delegation to UNIDROIT that developed and settled the text of the MAC
Protocol to the Cape Town Convention. He continues to represent Australia as a
member of the Preparatory Commission that is tasked with the implementation of
the MAC Protocol, and in that context is chair of the drafting committee for the
development of the regulations that will underpin the operation of the Register.
Bruce is also a member of the expert working groups that have been established
by UNIDROIT to develop its proposed Model Laws on Factoring and Warehouse
Receipts. He is the co-chair of the drafting committee for each of these Model
Laws.
Bruce has honours degrees in law and arts from the University of Melbourne.
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Guillermo Caballero
My main areas of expertise related to the work of UNIDROIT are Capital Markets,
Security Interests and Commercial Contracts
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Ergun Özsunay
Ergun Özsunay graduated from the Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 1957 and
joined the faculty staff. As a research assistant he studied with Alfred F.
Conard and E. Allan Farnsworth (visiting professors, 1957-59). He attended
graduate studies at Harvard Law School in 1959/60 (LL.M.). He obtained his PhD
degree at Istanbul University (1961). In 1962 and 1963 he attended “Faculté
International pour l’Enseignement de Droit Comparé” (“Diplome de Droit Comparé”
and “Diplome d’Etudes Supérieures de Droit Comparé”) in Strasbourg. Then he
studied at Max Planck Institut für auslaendisches-und internationales
Privatrecht” for his Habilitationsschriftı (1965/66). He was appointed full
professor of law for Civil Law and Comparative Law at Istanbul Uni. Faculty of
Law and elected as the Director of the Institute of Comparative Law in 1978. He
was active in the AIDC and AISJ (former president). After his retirement Prof.
Özsunay served as a member of the Turkish delegations in UNCITRAL and DH-BIO
(CoE). At present he teaches Civil Law (Contracts and Specific Types of
Contracts, Torts (Civil Liability), Secured Transactions, comparative
competition law, and International Arbitration and the US legal system). He has
written several books and works on these topics.
Prof. Özsunay represented Türkiye in the following diplomatic conferences:
“Convention on Agency in the International Sale of Goods” (1983); “Convention on
the Applicable Law to Contracts for the International Sale of Goods” (1985);
“Unidroit Conventions on International Factoring and International Financial
Leasing” (1988), and in several Working Groups in UNCITRAL (II, III, VI).
He continues his activities in the following international organizations:
“International Academy of Comparative Law (AIDC/IACL) (membre titulaire);
“International Association of Legal Science” (A.I.S.J./IALS); “UNIDROIT”
(correspondent member); “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung”
(correspondent member);“International Association of Procedural Law”; UNCITRAL
WG II (Arbitration-Conciliation, until 2019); WG III (Online Dispute Resolution,
and Investor-State Dispute Settlement) (until 2019); CoE: DH-BIO” (until 2019).
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Ana Elizabeth Villalta Vizcarra
I am a lawyer and notary; Master in International Trade; Career Ambassador of
the Diplomatic Service of El Salvador; Professor of Private International Law,
Public International Law and Integration Law; Rapporteur on Private
International Law when I was a Member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee
of the OAS for 16 years; author of several articles on private international
law; lecturers at various American Universities on issues of private
international law; Panelist on the Vienna Convention on the International Sale
of Goods at the UNCITRAL/UNCITRAL headquarters; Member of IHLADI (Instituto
Hispano Luso Americano de Derecho Internacional); Founding Member of ASADIP
(American Association of Private International Law); member of AMEDIP (Mexican
Association of Private and Comparative International Law).
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Dhafer Dridi
Dhafer DRIDI is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the
University of Tunis. He teaches international contract law to the students of
the master’s programme in International Business Law.
Dhafer is also an attorney in Tunisia, having practiced law since his admission
to the Tunisian Bar in 2005. He is currently the proprietor of a law office in
Tunis that offers legal services in several areas, such as arbitration, private
international law, corporate law, banking and finance.
Dhafer has authored numerous academic articles published in local and regional
revues and books.
Dhafer has been invited as a speaker to several symposia and events addressing
significant legal issues relating to arbitration and private international law.
He is a native speaker of Arabic and a fluent speaker of French and English.
Dhafer has held a number of positions in academic, research, and civil society
organisations. In particular, he was a trainer at L’Institut Supérieur de la
Magistrature (The Higher Institute of the Judiciary), L’Institut Supérieur de la
Profession d’Avocat (The Higher Institute of the Legal Profession), and L’Ecole
Nationale des Finances (The National School of Finance).
Dhafer was a member of the research commission at the University of Versailles
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – University of Paris-Saclay and a member of the
translation team of the Diplomatic Conference which adopted the Aircraft
Protocol under the auspices of UNIDROIT. He is a vice-president of the Tunisian
Association for ADR.
Dhafer participated in several academic trainings and summer programmes offered
by globally-renowned institutions abroad. He was a visiting researcher at
UNIDROIT from December 2007 to January 2008 and an independent researcher at the
same institution from November to December 2005. In the summer of 2006, he took
the summer course at The Hague Academy of International Law. In the summer of
2007, he took part in the intensive training offered by the International
Training Centre for Human Rights and Peace Teaching in Strasbourg. Over the same
summer, he also took the summer course of the Human Rights Institute in
Strasbourg.
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Allan Mukuki
Allan M. Mukuki, PhD Candidate (Navarra, Spain), LLM (Groningen, Netherlands),
PGDip (KSL), LLB (Hons) (UoN), ACIArb (London), Advocate of the High Court of
Kenya.
Allan Mukuki is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya as well as a Commissioner
for Oaths. He is presently a PhD Candidate at the University of Navarra in
Spain. He is also a holder of an LL.M in International Law and the Law of
International Organizations, from the University of Groningen in the
Netherlands. He has an LL. B (Hons) from the University of Nairobi, he is a
Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London). He further holds a
post-graduate diploma in law from the Kenya School of Law. Allan is also a
scholar from the Hague Academy of International Law.
Some of his many roles in the legal profession include Director of International
Partnerships; a Doctoral Fellow; member of the Management Committee and moot
court coordinator, all for Strathmore Law School; Research Fellow for the
African Region (Kenya), for the European Research Council Grant Project on the
interpretation of customary international law; and Acting Director for the
Strathmore Institute of Advanced Studies in International Criminal Justice
(SIASIC)
Allan has previously worked at A.F Gross Advocate; in various legal institutes;
in governmental agencies and in the Judiciary of Kenya. He was also a Legal
researcher in the Office of the Solicitor General, Kenya, for the Maritime
Delimitation in the Indian Ocean (Somalia v. Kenya), a case that was before the
International Court of Justice. His main areas of specialization include Public
International Law, The Law of International Organizations, International
Humanitarian Law, International and Regional (EAC) Refugee Law and Legal Policy
Development.
Further, Allan has been involved in various national and international legal
consultancies and projects; he has published several peer reviewed legal
articles, a legal monograph and presented several legal papers in international
conferences around the world. He has also developed several policy documents for
Strathmore University as well as (currently operational) manuals and laws for
the operation of the Judiciary as well as governmental agencies and regional
agencies such as IGAD.
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Andrea Santacoloma
ANDREA SANTACOLOMA
Director
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Andrea Santacoloma is a Panamanian lawyer that focuses her practice on
international commercial arbitration.
Prior to joining Adell & Merizalde, Andrea was the Deputy Director for Latin
America of the ICC International Court of Arbitration for 5 years. In this role,
she gained vast experience in the internal functioning of the ICC’s Secretariat
and Court and saw first-hand the work of hundreds of arbitrators and ICC Court
Members in the region. Andrea was also in charge of identifying new
opportunities and potential users of the ICC Dispute Resolution Services (ICC
DRS) in Latin America, in liaison with the ICC National Committees and other
institutions in the region. She also worked as a lawyer advising local and
international clients on business and corporate law and M&A in 3 Panamanian law
firms.
She is currently the Executive Director of the Latin American Arbitration
Association (ALARB), one of Latin America’s leading associations gathering
practitioners and arbitrators, which seeks to encourage the use of arbitration
and foster initiatives for the development of international arbitration in the
region.
In July 2022, the G
overning Council of the International Institute for the Unification of Private
Law (UNIDROIT) appointed Andrea as a Correspondent for Latin America. Namely,
Andrea was appointed as a Correspondent for the Republic of Panama for the
period 2022-2025.
EDUCATION
• American University Washington College of Law, LL.M. in International
Arbitration and Business Law
• International Training Centre of the International Labor Organization (ILO)
jointly with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
(UNCITRAL), Università degli Studi di Torino, and University Institute of
European Studies (IUSE), LL.M. in International Trade Law & Dispute Resolution
• Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua, LL.M. in Corporate Law
• Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua, Degree in Law and Political
Science
• Centro de Estudios Regionales de Panamá, Diploma in Entrepreneurship and
Management of Small and Medium Enterprises
Bar admissions
Republic of Panama
Languages
Spanish, English, Italian (intermediate)
asantacoloma@adellmerizalde.com
+507 370 4155
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Pedro Mendoza Montano
Lawyer and Notary Public dedicated to the area of corporate and international
business law, founder of Iurisconsulti, Abogados y Notarios. Attorney-at-law and
Notary Public with a Degree in Juridical and Social Sciences graduate from
Francisco Marroquin University (Guatemala City, Guatemala). Masters of Law LL.M
graduate from Columbia University (New York City). Arbitrator in several
arbitrations carried out in Guatemalan arbitration centers and abroad. Professor
of General Contract Theory, Commercial Contracts, and International Businness
Law at the Faculty of Law of the Francisco Marroquín University. Expert witness
in Guatemalan law in several cases before USA courts. Associate member of the
International Academy of Comparative Law. Guatemalan expert appointed within the
project of the Organization of American States (OAS) for the drafting of the
“Guide on Applicable Law for International Commercial Contracts in the Americas”
(2017). Guatemalan expert appointed within the Lucerna Project of the Hague
Principles on the choice of applicable law in the field of International
commercial contracts (2017). Guatemalan correspondent of the International
Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT 2022). Member of the
group that participated in the translation of the English version into Spanish
of “Unidroit Principles on International Commercial Contracts”, Edited by the
International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit) Rome,
Italy (2018). Observer in several meetings of the United Nations Convention on
Contracts for the International Sale Of Goods, Advisory Counsel (CISG-AC)
(2015-2022). Guatemalan delegate to the United Nations Commission for
International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) (2014-2015; 2021-2022). Member of the group
that worked in the drafting of the Principles of Latin American Contract Law
(2015-2017). Full member of The Asociación Americana de Derecho Internacional
Privado (American Association on Private International Law).
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Oleksandr Biryukov
Doctor of Law, Professor at Private International Law Department of the
Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of
Kyiv. Oleksandr Biryukov successfully defended in Kyiv National University
dissertations on Comparative Insolvency in 1999 and on Cross-Border Insolvency
in 2010.
He is a proven legal consultant with extensive experience working in
international projects in Ukraine funded by USAID, TACIS/European Commission,
the World Bank, WTO, EBRD, DFID etc. He participated in drafting the Model Laws
for CIS on Securities Market (1998-2000) and the Discussion paper in the frame
of preparation of the Model law on Insolvency of Banks for CIS (2003-2004); was
a member in the Governmental Delegation of Ukraine at Diplomatic conference
convened in 2008 by Switzerland Confederation to discuss and adopt UNIDROIT
Convention on Intermediated Securities (now is Geneva Securities Convention).
Dr. Biryukov is a bankruptcy specialist, scientist, consultant to the IMF
(Ukraine, 2017-2018) and the World Bank (Kazakhstan, 2012-2018). Being a member
to the World Bank Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Regimes Task Force he was
involved in preparation of the Report on the Treatment of the Insolvency of
Natural Persons.
Prof. Biryukov teaches a number of private law university courses, including
Private International Law, Bankruptcy, Cross-Border Insolvency, Comparative
Securities Law and other.
He is a Fulbright Scholar (New York University School of Law, USA, 2000-2001).
In 1996 Biryukov conducted a research at UNIDROIT and in 2009 received a grant
from INSOL International to carry out research in the field of comparative and
international bankruptcy.
He authored a number of publications, including a book Law and Legal System of
Ukraine (JURIS Publishing Inc., 2005), a chapter Recent Bankruptcy Law
Developments in Ukraine in Contemporary Issues on Public International and
Comparative Law (Vandeplas Publishing Co., 2009), a brochure Research Guide to
Ukrainian Law (NYU Globalex Journal, 2006), and more than 120 publications
devoted to private law reform in Ukraine.
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Hernany Veytia
NAME: PROF. DR. HERNANY VEYTIA (LL.M. YALE)
AFFILIATION DIRECTOR BNM-CAMBRIDGE STUDY CENTRE ON SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENTS
PRESENTATION
Professor of law, international strategic consultant, arbitrator, and
entrepreneur. Hernany Veytia is very comfortable with complex, high-profile and
confidential transactions. Her consulting experience as partner of BNM and
Deloitte enables her to focus on and add value to the sustainable and commercial
aspects of each deal. Frequently she leads transdisciplinary teams to deliver
fact findings and legal opinions, feasibility studies and turn-key projects for
banks, governments, international organisations, and corporations willing to
expand or withdraw operations in other jurisdictions.
In Prof Veytia’s experience UNIDROIT works have been very useful to understand
not only the foreign law, but also to recognise the cultural, political, and
economic factors at play, and the way national and international regulators
operate-and cooperate. In her opinion, UNIDROIT instruments have been of utmost
importance for the legal strategies she designed for:
• DANPREIT (Dispute Analytics Platform for Real Estate Investment Trusts in the
Agriculture, Construction and Mining industries).
• TELEKAIROS, innovative methodology that incorporates the use of space assets.
• Corporate art collections, restitutions, including donations, sponsorships,
and loans to museums.
• Contracts used by a German waterworks company willing to grow in all the
Caribbean and Central American countries.
• Liquidation of commercial and investment banks
• IPOs and reverse mergers for companies in the extraction industries (Canadian
stock exchange), ILS listed in Bermuda and African sovereign funds listed in
London.
• Franchising and other commercial contracts in the food & drinks, health,
aero-space, and automotive industries.
In the last three decades Prof. Veytia has lived, and successfully completed
investments and disinvestments in more than forty countries in the five
Continents. She is frequently appointed as arbitrator and invited as speaker on
risk transfers at international industry conferences in fields of her expertise:
energy (both renewable and traditional), artificial intelligence,
infrastructure, mining, real estate, agriculture, rail, space, automotive, and
franchising. She sits in the board of directors of companies in Europe including
the United Kingdom.
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Suzanne Howarth
Suzanne Howarth is an Australian legal practitioner admitted to legal practice
in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory as well as in England and
Wales. Suzanne holds undergraduate and graduate law degrees from the
Universities of Sydney and Melbourne, is a graduate of the Australian Institute
of Company Director and an accredited mediator.
Suzanne joined the Australian Public Service in 1992. Before joining the
Service, Suzanne worked with two major law firms in Sydney and in the City of
London in the areas of insurance, international trade, and dispute resolution.
Since 2020, Suzanne has been an Executive Member of the International Law
Section of the Law Council of Australia. For over two decades, Suzanne has
worked as a senior Australian Government lawyer in various Australian central
government agencies as well as the Australian Competition and Consumer
Commission. Suzanne’s areas of expertise include government and public
administration, competition and consumer law, corporate law, public and
international law, trade and investment, taxation, and the regulation of not for
profits.
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Juliana Rodríguez Rodrigo
Juliana is a lecturer in Private International Law at the Universidad Carlos III
de Madrid. Her main areas of research and teaching are international trade law,
European competition law and international family law. In relation to the
former, she is the author of 3 monographs, one of them on “Régimen jurídico de
la abogacía internacional” (2003), another on “Abordaje marítimo y litigación
internacional” (2007) and the third one on “Contratos internacionales de
distribución comercial en el Derecho Internacional Privado de la Unión Europea”
(2013). She has also published on international factoring contracts,
international insolvency and international commercial and investment
arbitration. With regard to European competition law, she is co-author of the
monograph “La doctrina de las infraestructuras esenciales en Derecho antitrust
europeo” (2012) and has also written on other issues related to this subject,
such as the influence of Big Data on anti-competitive behaviour. Finally, within
the last line of research mentioned, she is the author of a fifth monograph on ”
Relaciones económicas de los matrimonios y las uniones registradas en España,
antes y después de los Reglamentos (UE) 2016/1103 y 2016/1104″ (2019) and has
publications on international successions and free movement of persons, among
other subjects.
She has been Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and
Cooperation of the Government of Spain, as delegate of Spain at the 51st Session
of UNCITRAL and is a Member of the European Association of Private International
Law – EAPIL- and has been part of the working group of this association created
to draft the future European Regulation on Real Rights.
Her current research focuses on the legal issues raised by new technologies,
including intellectual property rights in the metaverse and digital assets.
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Maria Hook
Maria Hook is an Associate Professor at the University of Otago (Faculty of
Law). Her main area of expertise is private international law, particularly in
the New Zealand context. She is a joint author of The Conflict of Laws in New
Zealand (LexisNexis, 2020).
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Radwa Elsaman
Dr. Radwa Elsaman’s area of expertise includes commercial law, international
comparative law, international sustainable development and the rule of law. She
focuses mainly on the MENA region. In addition to being an Assistant Professor
of Law at Cairo University in Egypt, she has lectured and conducted academic
research at prominent universities throughout the United States, such as Cornell
University School of Law and Boston University School of Law, and the Central
European University in Europe.
With 20 years of experience, Dr. Elsaman is well known for assisting governments
and private sector entities with legal and institutional reform. She has
consulted for USAID on projects, including Automating Economic Courts in Egypt
and Economic Stabilization Support for Syria. With the IDLO, she advised on
Strengthening the Capacity of National Partners in Economic Laws and Capacity
Building of Jordanian judges. Similarly, she advised the European Investment
Bank on Improving Access to Finance by Facilitating SMEs’ Business Expansion.
Moreover, she acted as a legal expert at the EU Euromed Justice Project. With
the World Bank Group, she consulted on land and property projects in MENA. She
was also engaged with other organizations, including the GIZ and the AFD.
Between 2006 and 2015, Dr. Elsaman worked for international law firms, including
Dentons and DLA Piper, where she represented clients in regulatory and
transactional matters.
Her publications have appeared in worldwide-law journals. Currently, she
contributes to the Cambridge Handbook on Comparative Law. Her book on
“Comparative Franchising Law: United States, China, Malaysia, MENA Region” has
been chosen as one of the six best books on franchising globally. She is a
member of various professional global unions and is licensed to practice law in
multiple jurisdictions. She got her LL.B. from Cairo University School of Law;
an LL.M. from the IMO’s International Maritime Law Institute, a second LL.M. and
J.S.D (PhD in Law), from the American University Washington College of Law.
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Stefan Vogenauer
Stefan Vogenauer has been teaching an intensive masters course in ‘Global
Commercial Contract Law’ as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of
Melbourne since 2012. He also taught the BCL/MJur options ‘Transnational
Commercial Law’ and ‘International Commercial Arbitration’ at the University of
Oxford, where he served as Professor of Comparative Law and Director of the
Institute of European and Comparative Law from 2003 to 2015. He has taught and
lectured widely in many European countries and has held Visiting Professorships
at NYU Law School, the University of Auckland, the University of Paris 2, the
University of Texas at Austin, Louisiana State University, National Taiwan
University and National Law University Delhi.
Apart from legal history, his main research interests are in comparative private
law, contract law and transnational commercial law. He is an expert in contract
law where he has worked extensively on national laws (English, French and
German) and on comparative, European and transnational aspects. He is the sole
editor of the Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial
Contracts (PICC) (2nd edn, Oxford University Press 2015), a standard reference
work in the field. He is also a co-author of the leading student textbook in
comparative contract law, the Ius Commune Casebook for the Common Law of Europe:
Cases, Materials and Text on Contract Law (3rd edn, Hart Publishing 2019). His
co-authored monograph on contracts written in English but governed by another
law (Englisch als Vertragssprache) was published with CH Beck in 2018.
From 2017, Professor Vogenauer served as a member of the panel of experts for
the drafting of the ‘tripartite’ Legal Guide to Uniform Instruments in the Area
of International Commercial Contracts, with a Focus on Sales, published jointly
by UNCITRAL, the Hague Conference and UNIDROIT.
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Amnon Lehavi
Prof. Amnon Lehavi (J.S.D, LL.M, Yale) is Full Professor at the Harry Radzyner
Law School, Reichman University, Israel, and former Dean of the Law School
(2016-2021). He acts as Academic Director of the G City Real Estate Institute at
Reichman University. Prof. Lehavi is a member of UNIDROIT’s Exploratory Expert
Group on “Private Art Collections: Orphan Objects.” He also served as
Co-President of the Law Schools Global League (2018-2021). Prof. Lehavi was a
visiting professor at the University of Toronto (Canada), University of
California, Berkeley (USA), Tilburg University (the Netherlands), KU Leuven
(Belgium), and Luiss University (Italy).
An expert on property law, urban law and policy, cultural property,
international economic law, and law and globalization, Prof. Lehavi is the
author of Property Law in a Globalizing World (Cambridge UP, 2019) and The
Construction of Property: Norms, Institutions, Challenges (Cambridge UP, 2013),
and the editor of Disruptive Technology, Legal Innovation, and the Future of
Real Estate (Springer, 2020), One Hundred Years of Zoning and the Future of
Cities (Springer, 2018), and Private Communities and Urban Governance:
Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives (Springer, 2016).
Email: alehavi@runi.ac.il; Twitter: @Alehavi; ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7976-9546.
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David Morán Bovio
I discovered UNIDROIT’s work through the study on Transport Terminals [when
writing on OTT UN Convention (1991)]. Afterwards the Principles on International
Commercial Contracts (Chapter 6, within a volume devoted to the Principles under
my coordination, and Chapter 9.1, in Bonell Fs).
I directed (and still I am mentoring) Master’s and PhD students’ research to
deep in documents ending up in ULIS, to get a better CISG understanding on
different CISG Articles (e.g., 7, 25, 78 and 79).
With a group of students, we translated to Spanish the Guide to International
Master Franchise Arrangements 1st. edition.
Lastly, with a group of University colleagues and other bank experts we sent
comments on Model Law on Factoring and on Principles on Digital Assets within
the last four months or so.
Apart from UNIDROIT’s works, but on international trade law area, I have had the
benefit to represent Spain in UNCITRAL (1989-2014). There, I chaired the Plenary
(1994) and two working groups: NIEO (1993-1994, while drafting Model Law on
Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services, 1994) and the one on
International Contract Practices (1995-2001) during the Convention on Assignment
of Receivables on International Trade (2001) preparation. I was member of the
Spain Delegation in Working Group V, dealing with Insolvency Law (2001-2014),
and Working Group III (2001-2008) when drafting Rotterdam Rules.
Consequently, my publications are within that ambits.
In Spanish Law I wrote on Companies, Commercial Registry, Loans (with particular
attention to interests’ debt in it and in other credit contracts, also on lack
of timely payment).
I was granted (DAAD, A. v Humboldt S. and Salvador de Madariaga) to research
periods (three years in a sum) in MPI (Hamburg).
I coach my University students’ teams to Willem C Vis International Commercial
Arbitration Moot and to MOOTmadrid.
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Walter Doralt
Walter Doralt has his main research interests in Civil Law, European Private
Law, and Company Law, with methods drawing on Comparative Law (Austria, Germany,
England, France, Italy and Switzerland) as well as Law and Economics. His
habilitation (Bucerius Law School) dealt with Long Term Contracts.
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Belén Moreno Bendlin
María Belén Moreno is an upcoming lawyer focusing on international commercial
and investment arbitration cases.
She works in the Dispute Resolution Department, mainly representing national and
international clients in commercial arbitrations before the Centro de Arbitraje
y Mediación Paraguay (CAMP), Paraguay’s only arbitration institution, and in ad
hoc arbitration proceedings.
Belén is a newly admitted member to the Arbitrator list of CIACBLP (Centro
Internacional de Arbitraje – Cámara de Bélgica y Luxemburgo en el Perú).
She was a part of the National University of Asuncion´s commercial arbitration
moot team as an oralist, receiving an honorable mention at the Willem C. Vis
International Commercial Arbitration Moot in 2015. Ever since, she has been
coaching the University´s moot teams in the Latin America moot and the Willem C.
Vis Moot.
Belen has an LL.M. from Georgetown University and has graduated with academic
honors as part of the Dean’s List 2020. She also earned a Certificate in
International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution.
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Fabián Villeda Corona
Fabián is a Senior Associate in the area of Litigation and Arbitration.
His practice focuses on Construction and Infrastructure Law, Public-Private
Partnerships, Concessions, Public and Private International Law, Free Trade and
Investment Treaties, International Contracting, Civil, Corporate,
Administrative, and the resolution of disputes through Domestic and
International Arbitration and Dispute Boards in the aforementioned areas of law.
Fabián works on disputes related to the sectors and/or industries of
construction and infrastructure, airports and ports, insurance, banking and
finance, energy, and foreign investment.
Fabián has large experience advising and/or representing government agencies and
companies in domestic and international arbitrations under different arbitration
rules (ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA, ICSID, etc.).
Fabián completed an internship at a law firm in Chile in the area of
International Contracts and International Arbitration. He completed a period of
training and academic research on the relationship between International
Investment Arbitration and the law and jurisprudence of the World Trade
Organization, specializing in non-discrimination clauses in both their
substantive and procedural form in international economic law, at the Max Planck
Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg,
Germany as part of his LL.M.
Fabián is Arbitrator and Secretary of Arbitral Tribunal of the Conciliation and
Arbitration Center of Tegucigalpa Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He is also
Arbitrator of the Arbitration Center of México (CAM), Ibero-American Arbitration
Center (CIAR), Institution for the Resolution of Disputes on Blockchain and
Technology (IBT) and is part of the list of potential Arbitrators of the General
Secretariat of the Madrid International Arbitration Center (CIAM). He has had
experience for several years as a professor and participates regularly as a
participant as well as speaker or lecturer in forums, colloquiums, training
courses and international workshops on different subjects. He is fluent in
Spanish, English and French. Basic knowledge of German (level A1 CEFR).
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Alejandro M. Garro
My main areas of expertise related to the work of UNIDROIT include international
commercial contracts and secured transactions, as well as international civil
procedure and private international law.
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Dyalá Jiménez
Dyalá Jiménez is a Costa Rican national who specializes in conflict resolution.
She is frequently appointed as arbitrator in international treaty-based and
contract-based disputes, both under institutional rules and ad hoc procedures.
She is also trained in mediation by ICSID/CEDR and acts as conciliator in local
complex disputes.
She is a member of the ICSID panel of conciliators and arbitrators for Costa
Rica and of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. Dyalá is also a member
of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) Governing Board.
In terms of her academic background, she is a Fulbright Scholar and alumnus of
Georgetown University Law Center (LLM ‘99) and is author of numerous
publications (visit www.djarbitraje.com). She has teaching experience in Costa
Rica (Lead University, 2017) and in Chile (Universidad de Chile undergraduate
and the Heidelberg/Universidad de Chile LLM Program, from 2004 to 2013). Dyalá
is also the correspondent for Costa Rica of the International Institute for the
Unification of Private Law, UNIDROIT.
From 2018 to 2020, Dyalá served as Minister of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica and
in such capacity was charged with public policy on exports and foreign direct
investment. In that role, she also led the country’s efforts to become the 38th
member of the OECD, which included passing 14 laws of varied complexity and
sensibility. During those two years Dyalá had to tackle a diversity of disputes
including frictions with trade partners, obstacles in land transportation,
challenges arising out of the Pandemic, strike on the ports, among others.
Dyalá is a member of the board of directors of Costa Rica’s investment promotion
agency, CINDE, and served on the board of the local Chamber of Commerce.
Dyalá has lived in Washington, DC, Paris and Santiago (Chile) and works in
Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.
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Cecilia Fresnedo de Aguirre
Doctor of Law and Social Sciences, University of the Republic (1978); Professor
of Private International Law at the University of the Republic (1984-) and at
the Catholic University of Uruguay (1994-2017); Member of the Uruguayan
Institute of Private International Law (1984-) and Director (2017-2021);
Professor at the Uruguayan Centre of Judicial Studies (2017-).
Visiting professor at several universities and institutions in foreign
countries, professor at the Hague Academy of International Law (2015).
Author of 26 books and 175 chapters in books and articles published in Uruguay
and abroad. Some of the main ones are La Autonomía de la Voluntad en la
Contratación Internacional, Montevideo, FCU, 1991 (Thesis); Curso de Derecho del
Transporte, Montevideo, coauthor Fernando Aguirre Ramírez, FCU, 8 volumes,
several editions (1999-2011); Curso de Derecho Internacional Privado,
Montevideo, FCU, 3 volumes, several editions (2001-2015); “Public Policy: Common
Principles in the American States”, Recueil des cours, Vol. 379 (2016),
Leiden/Boston, Brill Nijhoff, 2016, pp. 73-396; Legal Aspects of Cruises, Editor
and author of the General Report, Ius Comparatum – Global Studies in Comparative
Law, Volume 56, Switzerland, Springer, 2022; Derecho Internacional Privado.
Parte General. Jurisdicción estatal y arbitral, Tomo I, 1st ed., Montevideo,
FCU, 2022; Derecho Internacional Privado. Parte Especial Civil y Comercial, Tomo
II, 1st ed., Montevideo, FCU, 2022; Derecho Internacional Privado. Parte
Especial Civil y Comercial, Tomo III, 1st ed., Montevideo, FCU, 2022.
Lecturer and panelist in more than 150 seminars, conferences and workshops.
Research activities: Fulbright scholarship, University of California at Davis
(1988); at UNIDROIT (1998); at the University of the Republic, Uruguay, and at
foreign universities.
Professional experience as external Consultant on Private International Law
matters to several Uruguayan and foreign law firms and institutions and as
arbitrator.
Main areas of expertise related to the work of UNIDROIT: international
contracts, international family law issues, cross border insolvency,
international procedural issues, access to justice.
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Craig Forrest
Mr Forrest is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Marine and Shipping Law
Unit at the University of Queensland. He teaches maritime law, private
international law and cultural heritage law and has a broad research interest in
the unification of private maritime law. His most recent book is, with Professor
Nick Gaskell, The Law of Wreck (2019, Informa Law). His current work involves
UNIDROIT’S implementation of the Cape Town Convention on International Interests
in Mobile Equipment, and particular, the possibility of adopting a Protocol
addressing ships and maritime transport equipment. He also has an interest in
cultural heritage and the current Private Art Collection’s project.
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Pilar Perales Viscasillas
Professor Pilar Perales Viscasillas is the Chair of Commercial Law at Carlos III
University of Madrid (UC3M). She acts as a national and international
arbitration in commercial law disputes.
Author of seven monographs in matters related to international sale of goods
contracts, uniform law of international trade, commercial contract law, company
law, insurance and arbitration, as well as more than 150 publications in
collective and periodical works, several of them in English. Many of her
publications relates to various Unidroit Legal instruments.
Professor Perales Viscasillas is the current Chair of the CISG-AC (Advisory
Council on the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods)
(2003) and Council Rapporteur of Opinion No. 4; she was an observer in the
Working Group for the preparation of the third and fourth editions of the
UNIDROIT Principles on International Commercial Contracts (2010 and 2016)
(2007-2010 and 2017). She has been Spanish Delegate to the United Nations
Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL-UNCITRAL) (2001-2014) in Working
Group II on International Commercial Arbitration, and Spanish correspondent for
CLOUT (2002-2017). She participated in the working group that drafted The
UNCITRAL, HCCH, and UNIDROIT, Legal Guide to uniform instruments in the area of
international commercial contracts, with a focus on sales.
Member of the Plenary of the Centro Internacional de Arbitraje de Madrid (CIAM)
and Council member of The Spanish Club of Arbitration. Member of the Executive
Board of SEAIDA (The Spanish Branch of AIDA, Association Internationale de Droit
des Assurances). Co-Chair of the Cátedra de Derecho Empresarial Deloitte Legal.
She is also Director of the Moot Madrid, where usually UNIDROIT Legal texts are
used; and co-Director of the Master on International Advocacy (UC3M).
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Bernardo Rodríguez Ossa
Bernardo is a partner at Parra Rodríguez Abogados (Colombia) with more than 35
years of legal experience. Bernardo assists national and international clients
in aviation regulatory matters, structured finance transactions, M&A operations,
asset-based-financing, cross-border transactions and aircraft financing
transactions under the Cape Town Convention.
Bernardo represents world-leading international airlines and financial
institutions. His experience includes aircraft operating and financial leases,
asset purchase and sale transactions, cross-border financing transactions,
private placement transactions, secured loans and issuance of notes, among
others.
Bernardo has also participated in some of the major M&A and financing
transactions in Colombia, such as the financing of the Medellin Metro, the
acquisition of Central, North and South Cerrejón, the acquisition of Bell South
assets in Colombia, the establishment of Carrefour in Colombia and the first
private placement abroad by the major Colombian airline, amongst others.
Furthermore, Bernardo is a member of the Aviation Working Group (“AWG”) legal
panel and legal coordinator of the AWG Colombian National Contact Group.
Bernardo is a 1986 lawyer from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). In
1988 he obtained an LL.M in International Business Law from London School of
Economics and Political Science in London, England.
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Edgardo Muñoz
Edgardo Muñoz is a leading voice in the field of international business law as a
member of Universidad Panamericana’s law faculty in Guadalajara, Mexico, from
where he frequently contributes in specialized publications and discussion
forums.
Besides his academic commitments, he practices in the area of international
contracting and arbitration. He sits as arbitrator in international forums and
represents clients in commercial and sport proceedings. He is a Member of the
Court of Arbitration for Sports [CAS] and of the Appeal Tribunal of the
International Gymnastics Federation.
Edgardo Muñoz is also a Member of the CISG Advisory Council and Correspondent of
UNIDROIT in Mexico.
He received his Bachelor of Laws from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico, and
Master of Laws degree (LLM) from University of Liverpool in the U.K. and a
second Master of Laws degree (LL.M) University of California in Berkeley. His
Doctor of Laws degree (PhD) suma cum laude is from University of Basel in
Switzerland.
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Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell
Dr Teresa Rodriguez de las Heras Ballell is an Associate Professor of Commercial
Law at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
She is currently an Academic Visitor at the University of Cambridge, and was Sir
Roy Goode Scholar at UNIDROIT in 2021-2022. The topics addressed during these
appointments have been: secured transactions, effective enforcement, and digital
assets.
Asset-based finance and secured transactions, specially, the international legal
harmonization instruments are one of her main areas of expertise with a
significant level of specialization in the Cape Town Convention system. Within
this remit, she was member of the Study Group for the MAC Protocol and delegate
of Spain in the Diplomatic Conference, as well as an observer and a delegate of
Spain at UNCITRAL for WG VI on secured transactions.
Digital law and technology-related private-law matters (platforms, AI, data,
digital assets, algorithmic contracts) are her second area of primary research,
expertise, and international experience. She is delegate of Spain at UNCITRAL WG
IV on ecommerce (AI in international trade), and an Expert for UNCITRAL and
UNIDROIT on digital economy projects. She is also member of the European
Commission Expert Group on Liability and New Technologies, the EU Expert Group
for the Observatory on Online Platform Economy, and the EU Expert Group on B2B
Data Sharing and Cloud Computing. She is member of the European Law Institute
(ELI) Executive Committee and Council and author of the ELI Guiding Principles
on Automated Decision Making in Europe, 2022.
She is an arbitrator at the Madrid Court of Arbitration and the Spanish Court of
Arbitration. She has acted as an arbitrator in a variety of commercial disputes,
mostly financial agreements, and banking contracts, as well as commercial
contracts in general (agency, distribution, service agreements). Besides, she
held a European Central Bank scholarship to prepare a report on FinTech
regulation. So, she is also specialized in financial regulation.
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David Morán Bovio
I discovered UNIDROIT’s work through the study on Transport Terminals (when
writing on Operators of Transport Terminals UN Convention). Afterwards the
Principles on International Commercial Contracts (Chapter 6, within a volume
devoted to the Principles under my coordination, and Chapter 9.1, in Bonell Fs,
as a sequel from Assignment of Receivables UN Convention publications).
I directed (and still I am mentoring) Master’s and PhD students’ research to
deep in different aspects of the documents ending up in ULIS, to get a better
CISG understanding on different CISG Articles (e.g., 7, 25, 78 and 79).
In that documentary precedents vein one of the PHD students is digging on the
documents related to Hotel Keepers and Travel Agencies.
With a group of students, we translated to Spanish the Guide to International
Master Franchise Arrangements 1st. edition.
Lastly, with a group of University colleagues and other bank experts we send
comments on Model Law on Factoring and on Principles on Digital Assets within
the last four months or so.
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Mr Alvaro Galindo
Mr. Alvaro Galindo is an International Counsel advising on dispute resolution
matters, particularly those involving Latin American jurisdictions. Currently,
he is the Dean of the Law School at Universidad de las Americas and partner at
Carmigniani Perez Abogados. His practice focuses on disputes between sovereign
states and state-owned entities and private companies. He has been recognized by
The Legal 500 Latin America and was noted in this publication as “outstandingly
intelligent” and for his “incomparable capacity for coordinating, planning,
strategic assessment, and for his diplomatic approach”.
He was as member of the international arbitration practice at Dechert LLP in
Washington, D.C. He also served as the Director of the International Affairs and
Arbitration Unit for the Republic of Ecuador’s Attorney General Office. He acted
as a legal consultant for the International Centre for Settlement of Investment
Disputes (ICSID) in Washington, D.C., and as regional director for the Latin
American Development Corporation, where he coordinated the committee in charge
of drafting the Arbitration Law of Ecuador.
Mr. Galindo has significant teaching experience in the areas of dispute
resolution, international investment, and arbitration law. He has authored
numerous publications and articles related to arbitration and international
investment law.
Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, with
a course on Advanced Topics in International Investment Arbitration and Adjunct
Professor of Practical Aspects of Arbitration (Spanish course) at American
University Washington College of Law.
Mr. Galindo has represented sovereign states in international and regional
forums: the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD; the
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, UNCITRAL.
Member of the Court of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and arbitrator
in various arbitration centers in Latin America. In September 2021, he was
appointed to the list of arbitrators under the ICSID Convention.
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Professor Mads Bryde Andersen
Professor Mads Bryde Andersen (b. 1958) is a professor of private law at the
Univer¬sity of Copenhagen. He is the author, or editor, of several books and
articles in his field of contracts and obligations, intellectual property law
and computer and high tech¬nology law. His authorship includes “Lærebog i
Obligationsret I” (The law of Obligations, I, 5th edition, 2020), “Dansk
Pensionsret” (Danish Pension Law, 2nd edition, 2017, with Jesper Mark),
“Grund¬læggende aftaleret” (Basic Contract Law, 5th edition, 2021), “Enkelte
transaktioner” (Commercial Transactions, 5th edition 2022), “Praktisk aftaleret”
(Contract Law in Practice, 5th edition 2019), “Advokatretten” (The law of
Advocates, 2nd edition, 2022, with Lars Lindencrone Petersen), “IT-retten” (The
law of IT, 2nd edition, 2005) and “Ret og metode” (Legal Method, 2002). He has
published numerous academic articles and anthologies. Since 2003 he has been the
editor-in-chief of the most prestigious Danish legal periodical Ugeskrift for
Retsvæsen, section B (The Weekly Law Report).
For a number of years Professor Andersen was the Danish delegation to UNCITRAL.
From 1997 to 1998 he chaired the UNCITRAL working group on Electronic Commerce.
He has been involved in a number of working groups within the OECD dealing with
security and consumer issues of the information society and was the head of the
Danish delegation during the OECD talks on encryption policy (1995-1996). From
2003 to 2012 he was co-chair and later chair of the Danish Guarantee Fund for
Depositors and Investors.
Professor Andersen is a frequently used arbitrator in domestic and international
arbitration matters and has been involved in more than 150 arbitration cases,
either as chairperson, sole arbitrator or co-arbitrator.
Professor Andersen’s office address is:
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, FACULTY OF LAW
KAREN BLIXENS PLADS 16 (6A-3-26)
2300 COPENHAGEN S
Denmark
Mobile Phone +45 4058 0925
E-mail mads@jur.ku.dk
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Tim Schnabel
Tim Schnabel served as the U.S. head of delegation for the negotiation of the
UNIDROIT Principles on the Operation of Close-Out Netting Provisions, the
initial work on the MAC Protocol to the Cape Town Convention, and the
Preparatory Commission for the Space Protocol to the Cape Town Convention. He
led U.S. participation in several UNCITRAL projects, including the Singapore
Mediation Convention, the Mauritius Transparency Convention, the Model Law on
Enterprise Group Insolvency, the Model Law on Recognition and Enforcement of
Insolvency-Related Judgments, and the initial work on reform of investor-state
dispute settlement. He also participated in the negotiation of the Hague
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or
Commercial Matters. He now serves as the Executive Director of the Uniform Law
Commission, which has worked within the United States since 1892 to draft and
seek enactment of state legislation on topics for which uniformity of state law
is useful and feasible. Uniform acts developed by the ULC, which have been
enacted over 6,000 times by state legislatures, include the Uniform Commercial
Code and hundreds of other acts related to real property, trusts and estates,
family law, civil procedure, emerging technologies, unincorporated
organizations, and other areas of law.
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Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
Ana Filipa Vrdoljak is the UNESCO Chair in International Law and Cultural
Heritage and Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney. She has taught
international law, cultural heritage law, human rights law, and international
humanitarian law in Europe, Asia and Oceania, the Americas, and Middle East. She
has been Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow (2017), Marie Curie Fellow (2006-2008)
and Jean Monnet Fellow (2004-2006), Law Department European University
Institute, Florence. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy (in Law) from the
University of Sydney.
Professor Vrdoljak is the author of International Law, Museums and the Return of
Cultural Objects (Cambridge University Press, 1e 2006 and 2008, 2e forthcoming)
and editor of Oxford Handbook on International Cultural Heritage Law with
Francesco Francioni (Oxford University Press 2020), and Oxford Commentary on the
1970 UNESCO and 1995 UNIDROIT Conventions with Andrzej Jakubowski and Alessandro
Chechi (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023). She is a General Editor,
with Francesco Francioni, of the Oxford Commentaries on International Cultural
Heritage Law (Oxford University Press) and book series, Cultural Heritage Law
and Policy (Oxford University Press). She is President of the International
Cultural Property Society (U.S.) and Chair of the Management Committee,
International Journal of Cultural Property (Cambridge University Press).
Professor Vrdoljak is a member of UNIDROIT’s 1995 UNIDROIT Convention Academic
Project (UCAP) and member of the UNIDROIT Export Group on Orphan Works. She is a
member of UNESCO Expert Group preparing Model Provisions for the 1970 UNESCO
Convention. She has served on expert panels for UNESCO, UNIDROIT, European
Commission and the OHCHR. She has been a member of the ILA’s Cultural Heritage
Committee since 2008. She has been a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court
and Federal Courts of Australia since 1997, and Supreme Court of New South Wales
since 1992.
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Petra Butler
Petra is a German and New Zealand qualified lawyer. Her main areas of research
are international commercial law, in particular international commercial
contracts and international dispute resolution, and human rights. Currently she
focuses especially on access to commercial justice issues and issues in relation
to cross-border contracting by MSMEs. Petra is a law reform specialist. She has,
inter alia, lead two Commonwealth projects: an inquiry into judicial diversity
in Commonwealth small states and regarding international commercial arbitration
in the Commonwealth. She is also the director of the Institute of Small and
Micro States. The aim of the Institute is to provide a platform for research and
law reform regarding issues pertinent to small states.
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Professor Anna Veneziano
Anna Veneziano is the Deputy Secretary General of the International Institute
for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). She is a Professor of Comparative
Law at the University of Teramo, Italy, where she was formerly the Director of
the Department of Private Law. She has also formerly been a tenured Professor of
European Property Law at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Her education
includes a Law Degree with honours from the University of Rome La Sapienza, an
LL.M degree from the Yale Law School funded by a Fulbright scholarship, and a
PhD degree from the University of Florence (Italy).
Her main research and publication areas are on secured transactions as well as
international, comparative, and European contract and sales law. Before joining
UNIDROIT she was a member of the Italian delegation with respect to the Cape
Town Convention on International Interests on Mobile Equipment and its Aircraft
Protocol as well as its Space Protocol. She was also a member of the Study Group
on a European Civil Code and of the Compilation and Redaction Group on a Draft
Common Frame of Reference on European Private Law (DCFR), and of the restricted
Expert Group set up by the European Commission on a common European law on
sales.
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Professor Ignacio Tirado
Professor Ignacio Tirado was appointed Secretary-General by the Governing
Council at its 97th session, and officially took office on 27 August 2018. A
national of Spain, Professor Tirado (Commercial, Corporate and Insolvency Law,
Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Spain) holds a PhD from the Universities of
Bologna and Autónoma de Madrid and an LLM from the University of London.
Professor Tirado has been a Senior Legal Consultant at the World Bank’s Legal
Vice-Presidency and Financial Sector Practice for more than nine years, having
also consulted for the IMF on insolvency related matters as well as for the
Asian Development Bank on commercial legal reform.
Amongst other accolades to his professional experience, Professor Tirado is a
founding member of the European Banking Institute, an International Fellow of
the American College of Bankruptcy and has been Director and Academic Co-Chair
of the International Insolvency Institute.
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Ms Lena PETERS
A Swedish national, Ms Lena Peters grew up in Italy where she attended an
English school. In 1978 she took her Juris Kandidatexamen at Stockholm
University followed by a Master of Laws from King’s College, London (1979).
Since 1985 she has been with UNIDROIT, first as Research Officer, lastly as
Principal Legal Officer, her main duties being Secretary to the Working Group
for the Preparation of Principles of International Commercial Contracts,
Secretary to the Study Group on Franchising, Secretary to the Committee of
Governmental Experts on Franchising.She also collaborated on the project for the
preparation of the ELI-Unidroit Model European Rules of Civil Procedure. She is
currently Managing Editor of the Uniform Law Review and responsible for
publications at UNIDROIT.
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Myrte Thijssen
Myrte Thijssen started her career in the Legal Service of the Dutch Central Bank
(Supervision and Regulation Department). From 2015-19 she worked in the Legal
Service of the Single Resolution Board, providing advice in banking crises and
dealing with litigation before the Appeal Panel and the Court of Justice of the
European Union. She studied at the University of Amsterdam and New York
University. She has taught Corporate Law and Law of Bank Crisis Management at
the University of Amsterdam and the University of Bologna respectively. She has
published several articles in the field of banking and financial law with a
particular focus on bank resolution.
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Marina Schneider
Marina Schneider is Principal Legal Officer and Treaty Depositary at UNIDROIT.
She studied law at the University of Strasbourg (France) and Paris I – Panthéon
Sorbonne. She joined the UNIDROIT in 1987 and was involved in the elaboration
and French versions of most UNIDROIT instruments since. She is in charge of the
1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects and of
the UNESCO-UNIDROIT Model Provisions on State Ownership of Undiscovered Cultural
Objects. She is the author of the Explanatory Report of the 1995 Convention and
many articles on the Convention and other international instruments in the
field. Ms Schneider is also responsible for the project on private collections
and for the UNIDROIT Convention Academic Project (UCAP). She is member of the
Board of the International Society for Research on Art and Cultural Heritage Law
(ISCHAL).
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Michelle Fung
Prior to joining UNIDROIT, Michelle worked in the Department of Justice of Hong
Kong, China, for over 10 years, advising and representing Hong Kong, China in
various aspects of international law. Prior to that she worked in an
international law firm, assisting leading companies and financial institutions
in complex disputes. She has an LLB from the University of Hong Kong and LLM
from New York University.
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Teresa Rodriguez de Las Heras Ballell
Professor of Commercial Law, Carlos III University of Madrid. Currently, Sir Roy
Goode Scholar at UNIDROIT, Rome, 2021-2022. Chair of Excellence 2017-2018 at
University of Oxford (Uc3m- Santander Program), affiliated to Harris Manchester
College. Previously Distinguished Visiting Professor and fellow of a number of
Academic Institutions. Arbitrator of Madrid Court of Arbitration. Member of ELI
(European Law Institute) Council and Executive Committee. Member of the Expert
Group of the European Commission on Liability and New Technologies and member of
the Expert Group of the European Observatory of Platform Economy; the
International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law; the expert group of the
Inclusive Global Legal Innovation Platform for Online Dispute Resolution –
UNCITRAL and Hong Kong Department of Justice. Expert of the UNIDROIT Study Group
on the MAC Protocol of the Cape Town Convention on International Interests.
Delegate of Spain to UNIDROIT for the adoption of the Protocol, delegate of
Spain in Working Group VI of UNCITRAL on secured transactions and in Working
Group IV on Electronic Commerce. Member of UNIDROIT Working Groups on
Enforcement and Warehouse Receipts.
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William Brydie-Watson
William Brydie-Watson is an Australian lawyer who specialises in secured
transactions law and private international law. Before joining UNIDROIT, William
was a government lawyer in the Private International Law and International
Arbitration section of the Australian Attorney-General’s Department, where he
worked primarily on treaty negotiation and the implementation of private
international law treaties in Australia. At UNIDROIT, he is primarily
responsible for the implementation of the Mining, Agriculture and Construction
(MAC Protocol) to the 2001 Cape Town Convention on International Interests in
Mobile Equipment and the development of a Model Law on Factoring. William also
serves as UNIDROIT’s liaison with the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
forum and as manager of the Institute’s Scholarship and Internship Programme.
Admitted to practice in New South Wales and the High Court of Australia, he has
a Bachelor of Arts (honours), a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Laws from the
Australian National University. William also lectures on International Secured
Transactions Law at the Eotvos Lorand Faculty of Law in Budapest.
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State Entry into force Alberta 01.06.1978 British Columbia 31.03.2014 Manitoba
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27.05.2001 Ontario 31.03.1978 Prince Edward Island 22.03.1995 Saskatchewan
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