CALL FOR PAPERS
UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT
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UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID
Madrid, 2 March 2012
UNCTAD’s Principles on Responsible Sovereign Borrowing and Lending
BACKGROUND OF THE CONFERENCE
The causes and widespread negative effects of the global financial and economic crisis prompted UNCTAD to launch an initiative in 2009 to promote responsible sovereign lending and borrowing practices. The purpose of UNCTAD’s initiative is to provide a forum for debate on responsible practices and to develop a set of commonly accepted principles and practices relating to sovereign financing.
An expert group was established to contribute to the process of drafting these Principles. The group is composed of world renowned legal and economic experts, private investors and NGOs. Senior representatives from the IMF, the World Bank and Paris Club participate as observers of this group. After several formal meetings and exchanges of ideas a draft of the Principles emerged. This document is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish at http://www.unctad.info/en/Debt-Portal/News-Archive/Our-News/UNCTAD-Launches-Principles-on-Responsible-Sovereign-Lending-and-Borrowing-3052011/
As this draft is intended to be a point of departure for international discourse and will be subject to further discussions with governments, UNCTAD and the UAM (through its schools of Law and Economics, with the support of the project DER2009-11436 on ‘global legal goods’) will organize a conference to discuss in depth the foundations, implications and perspectives of these Principles and the problems they are designed to address.
Since sovereign lending and borrowing require an interdisciplinary and pluralist approach, the conference will encourage discussion among scholars and experts from different disciplines and backgrounds, focusing on economic, financial, institutional and legal issues. The UNCTAD’s initiative being novel in several ways, original and innovative research is especially encouraged.
The conference will take place in the campus of the UAM in 2 March 2012. The preliminary program will be available online as soon as the first selection of papers has been processed. Papers selected will be published in a collective book, one edition in English and another one in Spanish.
TOPICS OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference will explore these themes:
Economic and Financial Topics
1) Millennium Development Goals and debt crisis
2) Co-responsibility of lenders and borrowers as a new political and economic concept in global finance
3) Economic implications of the Principles on each category of creditors
4) Debt crisis prevention & the Principles
5) Developing and developed countries & the Principles
6) Secondary markets, credit rating agencies & the Principles
7) Debt management & the Principles
8) Debt crisis resolution & the Principles
Legal and Institutional Topics
1) Legal nature of the Principles
2) The relevance of comparative law & the Principles
3) The Principles seen from public, private and international law
4) Comparison with other similar initiatives
5) Implementation of the Principles
6) The United Nations and global financial architecture
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Senior and junior scholars (PhD students included) and experts are invited to participate. Papers will be selected on the basis of abstracts submitted. Selection criteria are: originality of the work links to the conference theme, and geographical representation of the speakers. Only one abstract per author will be considered. Abstracts must not exceed 500 words. The piece must be original and unpublished.
The papers can be presented in English or Spanish. The conference will provide for simultaneous interpretation into English. However, authors presenting in Spanish who wish to be considered for the English edition of the book must supply a publishable English version of their papers.
In addition, the following information must be provided:
- If possible, the name of the topic for which the abstract is submitted;
- The author’s name and institutional affiliation;
- An author’s brief cv, including a list of relevant publications;
- The author’s contact details, including email address and phone number;
Proposals and additional information should be sent to unctad-principles@uam.es. Any enquiry about the conference can be directed to this same email account. For more information on the UNCTAD’s initiative please visit http://www.unctad.info/en/Debt-Portal/
TIMELINE
• The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 4 October 2011.
• Successful applicants will receive confirmation to the email account provided with the submission of the abstract by 25 October 2011.
• Accepted authors will be expected to submit a draft of their presentations by 31 January 2012.
• The conference will take place in Madrid in 2 March 2012.
• Final versions for publications should be submitted by 30 March 2012.
FINANCES
All selected speakers will receive free registration to the conference.
The organisation will cover expenses for travelling and accommodation for the 12 speakers selected.
El miércoles pasado en nuestro Foro de Arbitraje y Litigación Internacional en FIDE hablamos sobre la revisión del Reglamento (CE) nº 44/2001 del Consejo, de 22 de diciembre de 2001, relativo a la competencia judicial, el reconocimiento y la ejecución de resoluciones judiciales en materia civil y mercantil («Bruselas I»), que se encuentra en curso. Francisco Javier Torres Gella e Iván Heredia desmenuzaron los aspectos importantes y los problemas que plantea el estado actual de las propuestas de revisión. En realidad, falta bastante para que se concrete, pero es un buen momento para saber por dónde van las negociaciones en una revisión que iba a ser muy limitada, pero que parece haberse ampliado considerablemente. En este post solo quiero poner de relieve los puntos salientes de la revisión de la regulación del arbitraje en el Reglamento Bruselas I; los que quieran leer sobre todos los temas en revisión, incluyendo las importantes propuestas sobre el exequátur, pueden hacerlo en este documento de la Comisión Europea.
Uno de los motivos originarios de la propuesta de reforma es mejorar la relación entre el arbitraje y los procesos judiciales, especialmente para tratar de evitar los retrasos injustificados derivados de los procesos paralelos y socavar los incentivos para utilizar la estrategia de las tácticas judiciales abusivas.
Las consultas de la Comisión Europea reflejadas en el texto del documento indican que no todos los interesados están de acuerdo con la reforma, y que, en todo caso, «la mayoría de los interesados se mostraron satisfechos en general con el funcionamiento de la Convención de Nueva York de 1958, que no debería verse socavado por una acción de la Unión en la materia».
A continuación transcribo como está hoy la redacción de los artículos pertinentes, que tienen por efecto obligar a los tribunales a suspender el procedimiento «si se impugna su competencia en virtud de un convenio de arbitraje y se ha sometido el asunto a un tribunal arbitral o si se ha ejercitado una acción judicial relativa al convenio de arbitraje en el Estado miembro sede del arbitraje».
Artículo 1
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2. Se excluirá del ámbito de aplicación del presente Reglamento:
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d) el arbitraje, salvo lo dispuesto en el artículo 29, apartado 4, y en el artículo 33, apartado 3.
Artículo 29
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4. Cuando la sede acordada o designada de un arbitraje estuviere situada en un Estado miembro, los tribunales de otro Estado miembro cuya competencia hubiere sido impugnada en virtud de un convenio de arbitraje suspenderán el procedimiento a partir del momento en que se someta a los tribunales del Estado miembro en el que esté situada la sede del arbitraje o al tribunal arbitral una acción para determinar, a título principal o como cuestión incidental, la existencia, la validez o los efectos de dicho convenio de arbitraje.
El presente apartado no es óbice para que el tribunal cuya competencia hubiere sido impugnada se inhiba en el caso al que se ha hecho referencia más arriba si su Derecho nacional así lo prescribe.
Cuando se estableciere la existencia, la validez o los efectos del convenio de arbitraje, el tribunal ante el que se interpuso la demanda se inhibirá.
El presente apartado no es aplicable a los litigios referentes a las materias contempladas en las secciones 3, 4 y 5 del capítulo II.
Artículo 33
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3. A efectos de la presente sección, se considerará que un tribunal arbitral conoce del asunto cuando una parte hubiere nombrado a un árbitro o hubiere solicitado el apoyo de una institución, autoridad o tribunal para la constitución del tribunal.
Francisco Garcimartín planteó dos preguntas importantes: ¿es compatible esta obligación de suspensión de los procedimientos judiciales con el Convenio de Nueva York de 1958? y ¿es lícito el efecto derogatorio de las cláusulas de sumisión a favor de terceros Estados?
El jueves 24 y el viernes 25 de esta semana se celebra el V Seminario Internacional de Derecho internacional Privado en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. El seminario está organizado por los profesores J.C. Fernández Rozas y P.A. de Miguel Asensio y, como es costumbre, cubre un abanico muy amplio de temas actuales de derecho internacional privado. Aquí está la información del seminario y el programa.
Sobre el proyecto de Ley de Cooperación jurídica internacional en materia civil para España
marzo 8, 2011
La Disposición Final 20ª de la Ley de Enjuiciamiento Civil señalaba que en el plazo de seis meses desde la entrada en vigor de aquella ley el Gobierno remitiría un proyecto de Ley de Cooperación Internacional. Han pasado muchos años y esa ley, cuya necesidad está fuera de toda discusión, aún no ha visto la luz. Ese fue el tema de nuestro último Foro de Arbitraje y Litigación Internacional, que celebramos en FIDE en febrero. Participaron como ponentes Francisco Garcimartín Alférez, catedrático de Derecho internacional privado, y Aurora Mejía Errasquín, Directora General de Cooperación Jurídica Internacional y Relaciones con las Confesiones del Ministerio de Justicia. Fue una sesión muy interesante, en la que se hicieron numerosas referencias a un proyecto preparado por el Profesor Miguel Virgós, catedrático de Derecho internacional privado, en 2001 y donde se habló de todos los temas importantes de una futura ley de cooperación internacional, especialmente del exequatur. Para los interesados en este tema, aquí hay un resumen de la sesión.
EUI Florence
Two PhD researchers and one post-doc
European Regulatory Private LawThe main hypotheses of the project
The project is sponsored by the ERC and focuses on European Private Law (ERPL) beyond the boundaries of national private legal orders, which are guided by autonomy and freedom of contract. This socio-legal project focuses on the search for a normative model which could shape a self-sufficient European private legal order in its interaction with national private law systems.
(1) It aims at a new orientation of the structures and methods of European private law based on its transformation from autonomy to functionalism in competition and regulation.
(2) It suggests the emergence of a self sufficient European private law, composed of three different layers (a) the sectorial substance of ERPL, (b) the general principles –provisionally termed competitive contract law – and (c) common principles of civil (or private?) law.The project elaborates on the interaction between ERPL and national private law systems around four normative models: intrusion and substitution, conflict and resistance, hybridisation and convergence.
Each candidate shall work in one of the fields indicated below
(1) 1 project on regulated markets. The major objective is to test the hypothesis of selfsufficiency of the emerging European private legal order. The project should ideally cut across the different sector related rules and cover the following countries: United Kingdom and Sweden (administrative governance), France and Italy (political governance), Germany (judicial governance). An experienced researcher with a PhD in regulated markets and good knowledge in institutional and behavioural economics is most suited in fulfilling this aspect of the research. The position is a fixed contract for two years.
(2) 1 project on remedies in European regulatory private law to test the reach of hybridisation, cutting across judicial, administrative and political enforcement/governance and encompassing individual as well as collective enforcement. The countries to be investigated should be selected along the lines of the
different enforcement/government structures, UK, NL, Nordic countries, Germany, Italy or France. A PhD reseacher familiar with European primary law, educated in comparative law and with experience in enforcement studies is required. The position is a fixed contract for four years.
(3) 1 project on co-/self-regulation in the field of standardisation of services, testing the convergence hypothesis. Co-/self-regulation in the field of services is still a black box. The project would allow to investigate SME’s which are mostly concerned. Outside and beyond the UK, Germany, France or Italy as well as Nordic countries, particular emphasis should be put on the new Member States since old Member States are very much concerned by cross-border services affecting their legal orders. The project should be executed by a PhD researcher preferably from Eastern Europe trained in comparative law and European law. The position is a fixed contract for four years.
Qualifications, Salaries, Project obligations
The PhD candidate shall hold a law degree with excellent results, which enables him for a PhD in law in the candidate’s home country. The candidate for the post-doc position shall obtain a PhD in law defended no longer than three years ago or be in the final year of his completion. In the latter case, a letter of the supervisor shall accompany the application where the supervisor indicates when completion of the PhD is expected.
For all positions, previous working experience in an international environment is an asset.High level of English speaking and writing skills is indispensable. Please also provide contact details of three references.
The members will be part of a project team. The candidates are expected not only to work on the candidate’s respective project but to support the execution of the overall project, which requires the organisation of workshops, conferences, short and long term stays. Sufficient time to conduct the researcher’s projects will be guaranteed. Phd researchers are eligible for a PhD at the EUI in Florence. All collaborators have to take residence in Florence or Fiesole. The project will start in September 2011 at the latest. Annual payment for PhD researchers max EUR 36.000 brut, for post doc max EUR 54.000 brut, net salary depending on the civil status. Researchers and post docs, having a full-time contract, are covered by the Institute’s accident and health insurance. For contracts of at least 12 months (or prolonged beyond 12 months) an amount equivalent to 16,5% of the basic salary will be paid upon termination of service as severance.
The Institute is an equal opportunity employer, and takes into account the importance of balance in gender, geographical and minority representation.
Applications should be sent until 20 March 2011 to Prof. Hans-W. Micklitz, EUI Florence, 9, via dei Roccettini, 50014 San Domenico di Fiesole or via email to the attention of Marlies.Becker@eui.eu.
Private International Law
25 July – 12 August, 2011
Carolyn LAMM, Partner White and Case (Washington D.C.)
25 July (Opening lecture)
H. Patrick GLENN, Professor at McGill University
1-12 August
General Course (The Conciliation of Laws)*
Adrian BRIGGS, Professor at the University of Oxford
25-29 July
The Principle of Comity in Private International Law
Dominique BUREAU, Professor at the University Paris ll (Panthéon-Assas)
25-29 July
Methodological Mutations in Contemporary Private International Law*
Johan MEEUSEN, Professor at the University of Antwerp
25-29 July
Private International Law and the Principle of Non-Discrimination*
Ronald BRAND, Professor at the University of Pittsburgh
1-5 August
Transaction Planning Using Rules on Jurisdiction and Judgments Recognition
Jan NEELS, Professor at the University of Johannesburg
1-5 August
Cultural Diversity and Constitutional Values in Private International Law
Yuko NISHITANI, Professor at Kyushu University, Japan
8-12 August
Cultural ldentity in Private lnternational Family Law*
Mpazi SINJELA, Former Dean of the WIPO World Wide Academy, Geneva
8-12 August
lntellectual Property: Cross-Border Recognition of Rights and National Development
* Lectures delivered in French, simultaneously interpreted into English.
Toda la información en la página de la Academia de Derecho Internacional dedicada a los cursos de verano.
Nuevo número de la REEI
enero 6, 2011
Ya está disponible en la red el número 20 de la Revista electrónica de Estudios Internacionales. Es un número redondo, que equivale a diez años de vida de la Revista. Felicidades.
Hay varias vacantes. Y todas muy interesantes para un jurista especializado en derecho internacional, derechos humanos y, especialmente, derecho internacional humanitario. Por ejemplo, queda vacante el puesto de director del excelente proyecto de Derecho internacional consuetudinario, porque el actual director, Jean-Marie Henckaerts, se hace cargo de un nuevo proyecto para actualizar los comentarios de los Convenios de Ginebra y los Protocolos Adicionales, un proyecto para el que también hay vacantes. Toda la información en esta página del CICR.
Feminismo y derecho internacional: nuevo grupo de interés de la ESIL
noviembre 29, 2010
ASIL – Private International Law Paper Prize
noviembre 9, 2010
El Grupo de Interés en Derecho Internacional Privado de la American Society of International Law convoca un premio a un escrito sobre cualquier tema de derecho internacional privado. No hace falta ser miembro de la ASIL para presentarse y los escritos pueden ser inéditos o ya publicados. Copio la información:
Private International Law Paper Prize
The Private International Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law is pleased to announce its second annual prize competition for the best essay submitted on any topic in the field of private international law. Published and unpublished essays are both acceptable.
Competitors may be citizens of any nation but must be 35 years old or younger on December 31, 2010. They need not be members of the American Society of International Law.
The prize consists of $500, a certificate of recognition, and a complimentary one-year membership in the American Society of International Law. The prize will be awarded by the Private International Law Interest Group based upon the recommendation of a Prize Committee. Decisions of the Prize Committee on the winning essay and on any conditions relating to this prize are final.
The winner of the Private International Law Prize will be formally recognized at the American Society of International Law’s Annual Meeting in March 2011.
Submission: Submissions must be received no later than 5:00 pm EST January 21, 2011. Entries must be written in English and should not exceed 8,000 words, including footnotes.
Entries must be submitted by email in Word or Pdf format. They should contain 2 different documents: a) the essay itself, without any identifying information other than the title; and b) a second document containing the title of the entry and the author’s name, affiliation, and contact details.
Submissions and any queries should be addressed by email to Private International Law Interest Group Co-Chair Alejandro Carballo at leuven2000@hotmail.com.
All submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail.
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