The Department of
International Law was invited to participate in
the VIII Conference of the American Association
of Private International Law (ASADIP) held on
29-31 October in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Presentations and discussions focused on the
theme "Services in International Private Law and
Private International Law as a Service" and
included discussions and analysis of e-commerce
and consumer protection, the challenges of
international law in emerging economies,
international transport of people and the
liability of carriers, and the effective legal
protection and recognition of foreign judgments,
among others.
While participating in the
debate "Coding as a Service from the Perspective
of International and Regional Forums," the
Director of the Department of International Law,
Dr. Dante Negro, provided an overview of the
work of the OAS in the field of private law:
simplified stock companies, secured
transactions, electronic warehousing receipts
for agricultural products, and international
commercial arbitration. This debate also
included representatives of the Conference of
The Hague and the International Institute for
the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT).
For her part, Dr. Magaly
McLean, Senior Counsel of the Department of
International Law participated as a moderator in
the panel titled "Arbitration as a Service", in
which panelists Roque Caivano (Argentina), Luis
Ernesto Rodriguez (Venezuela) and Genevieve
Saumier (France) spoke about second-instance
arbitration and arbitration as a means of
consumer protection.
In this space, Dr. McLean
spoke of the project on the recognition and
enforcement of foreign arbitral awards that the
Department has advanced since 2012 with support
from the Government of Canada. This initiative
recognizes the economic impact of judicial
decisions in arbitration and the common role of
judges and arbitrors vis a vis the individual
that seeks resolution of a dispute in domestic
and international legal systems, and briefly
mentioned the High-Level Meetings on the Role of
the Judiciary in International Commercial
Arbitration Department has organized in the
United States (2013), Costa Rica (2013), Chile
(2013), Uruguay (2014) and St. Lucia (2014).
Cooperation between the
General Secretariat of the OAS and ASADIP was
formalized in 2008 through a cooperation
agreement between the parties. Since then, they
have combined efforts with a view to channeling
academic, research and cooperation to contribute
to wider dissemination, codification and
progressive development of the regional legal
system, in accordance with the provisions of the
Charter of the OAS.
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