Conference Programme
Registration
YOUNG ARBITRATORS EVENT
Panel
Arbitration in the Bill for Amendment of the Brazilian Civil Code (DB n. 04/2025)
Moderator: Pietro Webber
Debaters: Inaê Siqueira de Oliveira, José Victor Zakia and Ana Paula Mageste
Panel
Arbitration Assistants and Integrity: Secretaries, Party-appointed and Tribunal-appointed Experts, and Others
Moderator: Fabiana Almeida
Debaters: Fabio Nuñez Del Prado, André Petersen and Julia Girão Baptista Martins
MAIN EVENT
Opening Concert
Opening Remarks by the President of the CBAr
Debora Visconte
Opening Remarks by Federal Attorney General Ms. Adriana Venturini
Opening Lecture
Integrity and Arbitration: A Path to Legitimacy
Speaker: Charles Jarrosson
End of the first day of the Congress
CAM/CCBC's Opening Party
Panel 1
Integrity and the Discipline of the Arbitral Proceeding
Moderator: Katherine Spyrides
- Topic: The Discipline of Ethics in Soft Law: Guidelines, Standards, Codes of Ethics, and Other Sources of Transnational Law
Speaker: Catarina Monteiro Pires - Topic: Contrasting Disciplines: Variations in Ethical Standards Applicable to Domestic and International Arbitration
Speaker: Andrés Jana - Topic: The Brazilian Discipline of Annulment Actions: Is Article 32 of the Brazilian Arbitration Law numerus clausus?
Speaker: Ricardo Aprigliano
Coffee Break
Panel 2
Integrity and Parties in the Arbitral Proceeding
Moderator: Marcela Tarré Bernini
- Topic: Parties and Procedural Bad-Faith: How to Sanction Bad-Faith Litigation in Arbitration
Speaker: Eliane Carvalho - Topic: Parties and Procedural Nullities: The Limits of Preclusion and Public Policy
Speaker: Carlos Alberto Carmona - Topic: Parties and Cooperation in the Proceeding: Duty or Burden?
Speaker: Selma Ferreira Lemes
Special Panel
Diversity and Inclusion Under Attack?
Moderator: Ana Weber
Speakers: Chris Campbell and Kabir Duggal
Lunch
Panel 3
Integrity and Arbitrators
Moderator: José Roberto de Castro Neves
- Topic: Arbitrators and Conflict of Interest: Is there an overlap between the duty of disclosure and the duties of independence and impartiality?
Speaker: Utku Coşar - Topic: Arbitrators and Dual Roles: Are "double hatting" or "revolving door" a legally adequate cause for distrust in arbitrators' conduct?
Speaker: Yasmine Lahlou - Topic: Arbitrators and Liability: Boundaries of Civil and Criminal Liability for Arbitrators
Speaker: Edgardo Muñoz
Coffee Break
Simultaneous Round Tables
Session 1: Integrity and Arbitral Chambers
Room 1
Scrutiny, Award Review, and Other Instruments of Control of Arbitral Decisions
Moderator: Isabela Lacreta
Speakers: Ana Serra e Moura, Miguel de Almada and Meg Kinnear
Room 2
Challenges against Arbitrators and Special Committees
Moderator: Marcela Kohlbach
Speakers: Mariana Souza, Francisco Satiro de Souza Jr. and Patricia Kobayashi
Break
Simultaneous Round Tables
Session 2: Integrity and Transparency in Arbitration
Room 1
Publication of Procedural Data and Arbitral Awards: Where Are We, and Where Are We Heading?
Moderator: Ana Luiza Nery
Speakers: André de Luizi Correia, Alexandre Vagenheim and Sílvia Julio Bueno de Miranda
Room 2
Boundaries of Procedural Confidentiality: Publicly Traded Companies and Public Administration
Moderator: Caetano Berenguer
Speakers: Nilo Gaião Santos, Lie Uema do Carmo and Marcela Levy
End of second day's activities
Panel 4
Integrity and Contract
Moderator: Anderson Schreiber
- Topic: Contract and Arbitrator’s Powers: Corruption in the Contract Performance vs. a Contract as a Product of Corruption
Speaker: Aloysius Llamzon - Topic: Contract and Lessons from Practice: What Can We Learn from the Case Republic of Nigeria v. P&ID?
Speaker: Tafadzwa Pasipanodya - Topic: Contract and Breach of ESG Clauses: Contractual Non-Performance and Arbitrability?
Speaker: Ana Filipa Morais Antunes
Coffee Break
Special Panel
Is Arbitration Under Attack?
Moderator: Valeria Galíndez
Speakers: Alexander Fessas and Min. Ellen Gracie Northfleet
Closing
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