At the 5th Ministerial Conference of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries (2017-2019) it was agreed “4.4 The Ministers reiterated their support for taking advantage of Macau’s comparative advantages in knowledge of the legal systems of China and Portuguese-speaking Countries, including by promoting it as one of the places of arbitration for the resolution of any disputes arising from trade between entrepreneurs of the Participating Countries of Forum Macau.” There is, therefore, great support for Macau to make this bridge and to promote Lusophone arbitration.
The Lusophone Arbitration and Mediation Association was set up with 158 prestigious arbitrators from Macao, Mainland China, Hong Kong and all the Lusophone countries. A cooperation protocol has already been signed with the Portuguese Arbitration Association and negotiations are underway with other similar organisations in Lusophone countries, namely Brazil and Mozambique.
ALAM continues its mission of aggregation and dissemination of knowledge on Lusophone arbitration holding now a webinar on 4 May (Thursday) 18:30 (Macao time) on “Arbitration of Investment Disputes in Lusophone Africa”. To register for the webinar, you could scan the QR code on the attached photo.
Moderator:
José Miguel Júdice – jmj@josemigueljudice-arbitration.com
Speakers:
Angola – João Dono – joaodono@gmail.com
Brazil – Christian Valenzuela – christiancarbajal22@hotmail.com
Cape Verde – Carla Monteiro – cmonteiro@cmalex.net
Portugal – José de Freitas – jose.freitas@defreitas.eu
Macau – Eduardo Buisson Loureiro – eduardojbuisson@yahoo.com
Mozambique – Dimétrio Manjate – dimetriomanjate@fsdm.co.mz
Themes：
- Characterisation of Investment Arbitration – Comparison with Commercial Arbitration, differences as to parties, international law instruments, principles, rules and process of arbitration, arbitral institutions and ad-hoc arbitrations, recognition of awards.
- The future – Reform of investment arbitration at UNCITRAL.
- General approach to the ongoing reforms and focus in particular on the following sub-areas – Court of First Instance and Appeal. Methods of appointment of arbitrators; control mechanisms with regard to treaty interpretation; third party funding of arbitration proceedings and implementation of the reforms (Multilateral Instrument on ISDS Reform.
