[Miscellaneous publications]

[1] The American Businessman and international commercial arbitration -- [2] Simplifying U.S. customs procedure -- 3. Toward freer world trade -- 4. The specter of 1953 -- 5. Increasing international trade with world-wide protection of trade-marks -- 6. The ICC at work -- 7. Maintaining a high level of employment in a democratic world -- 8. 'Red tape' in trade and travel -- 9. The east-west trade controversy -- 10. The expansion of trade -- 11. The president's program for a foreign economic policy -- 12. Round table on European inland transport -- 13. G.A.T.T. an analysis and appraisal of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade -- 14. The organization for trade cooperation and the new G.A.T.T

Arbitration in international controversy,

Bibliographical foot-notes.

La compétence du tribunal arbitral dans l'arbitrage commercial

"Mémoire présenté à la Faculté des études supérieures En vue de l'obtention du grade de Maîtrise en droit (L.L.M)"

A problemática trazida pela homologação de sentenças arbitrais estrangeiras anuladas em seu país de origem na segurança jurídica dos contratos internacionais do comercio

Pós-graduação em Direito - FCHS

Der rechtliche Status eines universellen Handelsrechts in den Rechtsordnungen Englands, Frankreichs und Deutschlands

Die Arbeit behandelt die Frage nach der Reichweite der Parteiautonomie und der Kompetenz des Schiedsgerichts zur Bestimmung des anwendbaren materiellen Rechts in einem internationalen Schiedsverfahren. Im Wege eines rechtsvergleichenden Ansatz wurden die Rechtsordnungen Englands (arbitration act 1996), Frankreichs (Art. 1492 ff. Nouveau Code de Procédure Civile)und Deutschlands (10. Buch der ZPO)untersucht, im Hinblick auf die Frage, wie nichtstaatliche Regeln (lex mercatoria) behandelt werden und unter welchen Voraussetzungen sie Anwendung finden können, sei es von Seiten der Parteien oder des Schiedsgerichts. Des Weiteren wollte die Arbeit zeigen, welche der genannten Rechtsordnungen die "wettbewerbsfähigste" ist, anders gesagt, welcher es gelingt, mit der Entwicklung eines sich wahrhaft globalisierenden, internationalen Markts mitzuhalten, indem der Weg für eine Anwendung solcher Regeln so weit wie möglich geebnet wird. Starre, nationale Vorschriften werden in diesem Zusammenhang als eine Minderung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit eines nationalen Rechts angesehen, welches sich den vorgenannten Herausforderungen stellen möchte. Das französische Recht erwies sich hierbei als das "wettbewerbsfähigste" der drei größten europäischen Wirtschaftsnationen, indem es ein geeignetes rechtliches Regelwerk für internationale Wirtschaftsangelegenheiten verwickelte Parteien aufstellt.

Judicial settlement of international disputes.

Includes 2d ed. of no. 1 and supplements for no. 2 and 9.

International adjudications, ancient and modern; history and documents,

Each volume has special t.-p.

Documents présentés au comité et relatifs a des projets déjà existants pour l'établissement d'une Cour permanente de justice internationale ... Documents presented to the committee relating to existing plans for the establishment of a permanent court of international justice.

Mode of access: Internet.

The two Hague conferences and their contributions to international law /

Includes index.

Congrès international du commerce et de l'industrie, tenu à Paris du 23 au 29 juillet 1900, sous la présidence de M. Moisant ... discussions, travaux et résolutions du congrès,

At head of title: Exposition universelle internationale de 1900, à Paris.

Relatório de estágio curricular no Centro de Arbitragem Comercial

The main purpose of this report is to present the work developed during the curricular internship on the Commercial Arbitration Centre of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It is structured in two parts. The first, in which i´ll present the CAC, its organic structure and its activities. In this part I will also show the work I´ve done during the internship, as well as i´m going to identified, and comment, the tasks performed. The second part presents a study on arbitration awards that aimed to determine the amount “split the baby awards”, that is to say those that condemn in (approximately) half of the request. In addition to these data, I collected from sentences other, such as the duration of the cases, the number of foreign persons in each process, the number of foreign arbitrators, the language of proceedings etc. What is expected with this paperwork is to be able to clarify, and make known, some aspects on Arbitration in Portugal, thus contributing to the strengthening of the role of the Arbitration and Arbitral Justice.

Corporate governance in banking: the role of board of directors

We test hypotheses on the dual role of boards of directors for a sample of large international commercial banks. We find an inverted U shaped relation between bank performance and board size that justifies a large board and imposes an efficient limit to the board’s size; a positive relation between the proportion of non-executive directors and performance; and a proactive role in board meetings. Our results show that bank boards’ composition and functioning are related to directors’ incentives to monitor and advise management. All these relations hold after we control for bank business, institutional differences, size, market power in the banking industry, bank ownership and investors’ legal protection.

Reparar y sustituir cosas en la compraventa : evolución y últimas tendencias

International texts recognise the buyer's right to the repair or replacement if the goods do not conform with the contract, and at the same time, establish exceptions to their application and certain rules of protection for the seller (Art. 46 CISG, Art. 7.2.3 UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, Art.9:102 PECL and Arts. 4:202 y 4:204 (1) PEL S). This approach is a result of a compromise between civil law systems and the common law and it has been widely extended to the regulation of consumer sales over the last decade (Art. 3.3 of the Directive 1999/44/CE, Art. III.-3:302 DCFR, Art. 26 of the proposal for a Directive on Consumer Rights). These norms regulate the different ways of requiring the fulfilment of a contractual obligation from a new paradigm which has little to do with a need to protect the weak consumer which governed the origins of consumer policy in the European Community. Now the idea of the consumer who shall behave economically efficiently prevails in Art. 3.3 of the Directive 1999/44/CE, a norm which is clearly influenced by the international texts and whose transposing into the national legislation of Member States has created important problems for traditional dogmas. In this sense there are still some unclear issues, such as the possibility of replacing in sales of goods of specific nature or second-hand goods, some aspects on the exercise of repair and replacement, and, even, their use as primary remedies rather than a reduction in price or a rescission of the contract. With regard to this, in England the possibility of offering the consumer free choice between these measures if the goods do not conform with the contract has been raised. This is far from the principle of pacta sunt servanda and is clearly contrary to the economic approach of the proposal for a Directive on Consumer Rights. Up to now Spain has limited itself to implementing Art. 3.3 Directive 1999/44/CE into its legal system in almost literal terms and the case law on the issue has completely turned out to be insufficient. By contrast with Germany, the Spanish legislator has not extended the application of the rules of repair and replacement of Directive 1999/44/CE to nonconsumer sales, even though two draft bill proposals along these lines presented by the General Commission for Codifying (“Comisión General de Codificación”), the last one being in January, 2009

The law and economics of good faith in the civil law of contract

Good faith plays a central role in most legal systems, yet appears to be an intractable concept. This article proposes to analyse it economically as the absence of opportunism in circumstances which lend themselves to it. One of the objectives underlying the law of contract on an economic view is to curtail opportunism. In spelling out what this means, the paper proposes a three-step test: bad faith is present where a substantial informational or other asymmetry exists between the parties, which one of them turns into an undue advantage, considered against the gains both parties could normally expect to realise through the contract, and where loss to the disadvantaged party is so serious as to provoke recourse to expensive self-protection, which significantly raises transactions costs in the market. The three-step test is then used to analyse a set of recent decisions in international commercial transactions and three concepts derived from good faith: fraud, warranty for latent defects and lesion.

Les obligations du franchiseur : étude du droit civil et du guide d'Unidroit sur les accords internationaux de franchise principale

"Mémoire présenté à la Faculté des études supérieures en vue de l'obtention du grade de Maîtrise en droit (LL.M.)". Ce mémoire a été accepté à l'unanimité et classé parmi les 15% des mémoires de la discipline.