Ces dernières années, les cas de force majeure et d’imprévision (hardship) sont devenus des "sujets brûlants" pour les affaires, et de nombreuses entreprises se sont retrouvées prises au dépourvu, n’ayant pas prévu de clauses adéquates dans leurs contrats. L’absence d’uniformité des règles nationales sur la …
L'Institut international pour l'unification du droit privé (UNIDROIT) est une organisation intergouvernementale indépendante dont le siège est à Rome dans la Villa Aldobrandini. Son objet est d'étudier des moyens et méthodes en vue de moderniser, harmoniser et coordonner le droit privé - en particulier le droit commercial - entre des États ou des groupes d'États et, à cette fin, d’élaborer des instruments de droit uniforme, des principes et des règles.
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, Arts Law, Technology Law, 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.)).
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.
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).
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.
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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| Alberta | 01.06.1978 |
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| Terre Neuve | 02.09.1978 |
| Territoire | Entrée en vigueur |
| Partie Caraïbe | 01.10.2010 |
| Aruba | 01.09.2010 |
| Curaçao | 01.10.2010 |
| Sint Maarten | 01.10.2010 |
| Territoire | Entrée en vigueur |
| Bermudes | 01.01.2018 |
| Gibraltar | 01.11.2015 |
| Ile de Guernesey | 01.11.2015 |
| Ile de Man | 01.01.2018 |
| Iles Cayman | 01.11.2015 |
| Territoire | Entrée en vigueur |
| Alberta | 01.04.2013 |
| Colombie britannique | 01.04.2013 |
| Ile-du-Prince-Edouard | 01.10.2014 |
| Manitoba | 01.04.2013 |
| Nouveau-Brunswick | 01.07.2016 |
| Nouvelle Écosse | 01.04.2013 |
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| Ontario | 01.04.2013 |
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| Saskatchewan | 01.04.2013 |
| Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador | 01.04.2013 |
| Territoires du Nord-Ouest | 01.04.2013 |
| Yukon | 01.10.2014 |
| Territoire | Entrée en vigueur |
| Alberta | 01.06.1978 |
| Colombie britannique | 31.03.2014 |
| Ile du Prince Edouard | 22.03.1995 |
| Manitoba | 02.09.1978 |
| Nouveau Brunswick | 05.12.1997 |
| Nouvelle Ecosse | 27.05.2001 |
| Ontario | 31.03.1978 |
| Saskatchewan | 08.10.1982 |
| Terre Neuve | 05.12.1997 |
| Yukon | 06.01.2022 |