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Download the seminar programme and registration form.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
| 16:00 | REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS (end 20.00)
Hotel Sheraton Centro Histórico
| 19:00
| GET TOGETHER COCKTAIL
Hotel Sheraton Centro Histórico (Room Don Alberto 2, 4th floor)
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Friday, April 18, 2008
| 8:30 | REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS
Reception at the Chancellery of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
| 9:00 | WELCOME ADDRESSES AND PRESENTATION OF THE SEMINAR BY:
Emb. Patricia ESPINOSA CANTELLANO, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Héctor DíAZ BASTIEN, President, International Association of Lawyers (UIA)
Duarte ATHAYDE, First Vice-president, International Association of Young Lawyers
Luis Enrique GRAHAM TAPIA, President, Mexican Bar Association (BMA)
Gabriel LARREA RICHERAND, Mexican Lawyers Association (INCAMEX)
Guillermo NARVáEZ, President, National Association of Business Lawyers (ANADE)
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DAY ONE – PRACTICE OF LAW BEFORE ORGANIZATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC LAW
| 09:30 | INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE
Chairperson:
Álvaro VIZCAíNO, Academic General Secretary of the National Institute for Criminal Sciences, Mexico
Speakers:Juan Manuel GóMEZ ROBLEDO, Underminister of MultilateralRelations and Human Rights of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
Jean Marc THOUVENIN, Professor of the Université de Paris X, France
Claudio COCUZZA, Partner of Antonelli Cocuzza & Associati, Italy
Donald Francis DONOVAN, Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton, USA
| 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK
| 11.30 | UNITED NATIONS
Chairperson:
Alexandra HAAS, Coordinator of the Programme against Discrimination of the Human Rights Commission for the Federal District, MexicoSpeakers:
Jaime RUIZ DE SANTIAGO, Former Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Mexico
Santiago CORCUERA CABEZUT, Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working
Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances of the UN Human
Rights’ Council and Partner of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle,
Mexico
Jutta BERTRAM-NOTHNAGEL, Deputy Secretary General of Relations with International Organizations of the UIA, USA
Jorge DE REGIL, Permanent Representative before the International
Labour Organization (ILO) and International Partner of Baker &
McKenzie, Mexico
| 13:30 | LUNCH
At the Chancellery of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
| 15:00 | INTER-AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN ORGANIZATIONS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Chairperson:
Ricardo CHACóN, AIJA’s National Representative for Mexico / Antonio PRIDA, President of UIA National Committee for Mexico
Speakers:
Jorge CARMONA, Researcher of the Legal Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Pascal MAURER, Partner of Keppeler & Associés and Director of Human Rights and Defence of the UIA, Switzerland
Carlos AYLA CORAO, Former President of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission and current President of the Andean Commission of Jurists, Venezuela
Julie GOFFIN, Permanent UIA’s Representative before International Organizations and Assistant to the Director of Human Rights and Defence at UIA, Belgium
Michel VALTICOS, Representative of the UIA before the United Nations in Geneva and Partner of Keppeler & Associés, Switzerland
| 17:00 | COFFEE BREAK
| 17:15
| INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION AGAINST IMPUNITY IN GUATEMALA (ICIG)
Chairperson:
Luis A. MADRIGAL PEREYRA, Second Vice-president of the Mexican Bar Association, Mexico
Speakers:
Socorro FLORES, General Director of Global Issues at the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Former Head of the International Criminal Court Liaison Office to the UN, Mexico
Philippe MORICEAU, President of UIA’s Commission of Defence of the Defence and represents UIA in a case before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, France
Carlos CASTRESANA, Responsible for the ICIG and Former State’s Attorney of the Supreme Tribunal of Spain, Spain
Pedro R. DAVID, Judge of the National Criminal Casación Chamber in
Argentina and Ex – Judge ad litem of the International Criminal Tribunal for the ex Yugoslavia, Argentina
| 20:00 | HOME HOSPITALITY
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
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DAY TWO – INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE
| 9:00 | UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW (UNCITRAL)
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO)
ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD)
NAFTA CHAPTER XX
WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO)
WOLRD BANK
Chairperson:
Luis Enrique GRAHAM TAPIA, President of the Mexican Bar Association, Mexico
Speakers:
Hugo PEREZCANO, Chief of International Commercial Practices of the Ministry of Economy, Mexico
José María ABASCAL ZAMORA, Partner of Abascal Asociados, Mexico
Gabriel E. LARREA RICHERAND, President of the Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados de México, Mexico
Rodolfo CRUZ MIRAMONTES, Partner of Cruz Abogados, Mexico
John M. WILSON, Legal Adviser on Private International Law for the Organization of American States, Mexico
Mauricio DE MARIA Y CAMPOS, Former Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Mexico
Carlos GARCíA FERNáNDEZ, Head of the Federal Bureau of Regulatory Improvement, Mexico
| 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK
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COMMERCIAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION MECHANISM
| 11:15 | INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (ICC)
NAFTA CHAPTER XI AND THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR SETTLEMENT OF INVESTMENT DISPUTES (ICSID)
NAFTA CHAPTER XIX
Chairperson:
Carlos LOPERENA, First Vice-president of the Barra Mexicana Colegio de Abogados, Mexico
Speakers:
Claus VON WOBESER, Vice-president of the International Arbitration Court of the International Chamber of Commerce, Mexico
Jorge WITKER, Researcher of the Legal Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Oscar CRUZ BARNEY, Secretary of the Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados de México, Mexico
James C. MOORE, Former President of UIA’s National Committee for the United States of America, USA
Malcolm S. MCNEIL, Partner of Carlsmith Ball LLP, USA
Miguel LOINAZ, Partner of ALS Abogados, Uruguay
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PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE WITHIN INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATIONS
| 13:00 | INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LAWYERS (UIA)
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF YOUNG LAWYERS (AIJA)
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS LAWYERS (ANADE)
IBEROAMERICAN UNION OF ASSOCIATIONS OF LAWYERS (UIBA)
Chairperson:
Joaquín RODRíGUEZ ZARZA, AIJA’S President of the Congress Committee, Mexico
Speakers:
Guillermo NARVáEZ, President of the National Association of Business Lawyers, Mexico
Miguel I. ESTRADA SáMANO, UIA Honorary President, Mexico
Duarte ATHAYDE, First Vice-president of AIJA, Portugal
Luis MARTí MINGARO, President of UIBA, Spain
Javier QUIJANO BAZ, Secretary General of UIBA, Mexico
| 14:00 | CONCLUDING REMARKS / DISCUSSION
Rapporteur:
By: José Antonio LOZANO DíEZ, Universidad Panamericana Law School Dean, Mexico
| 14:20 | LUNCH AND AFTERNOON ON YOUR OWN
| 20:00 | CLOSING CEREMONY AND CLOSING GALA DINNER
At the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Dress code: black tie)
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