Med-Mid XIV

The Centre Européen d’Arbitrage et de Médiation and

 The Ecole Internationale d’Arbitrage et de Médiation de la Méditerranée et du Moyen Orient

organise their

Annual International Conference

Med-Mid XIV

to be held by videoconference Zoom

 on 26 October 2020 at 15:00 CET

THE BURDEN OF PROOF

ON INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

PROGRAM

Oral evidence

Fact Witnesses, Expert Witnesses, Parties, Witness Statement

Civil Law Approach                                         

(Fabrizio Marrella, Professor of International Law and of International Business Law,

Cà Foscari University, Venice)

Common law approach                                    

(Sir Michael Burton, Former High Court Judge)

Discussion                                                                                                                 

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The Applicable Law

How to determine the applicable law

Effects of the civil procedural law on the taking of evidence                            

(Elie Kleiman, Jones Day, Paris)

Effects of the procedural common law on the taking of evidence                     

(Prof. George Bermann, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, New York)

Discussion                                                                                                                

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Disclosure of Documents

Effects of only voluntary production of documents

Forced discovery

Its limits

Civil Law Approach                                         

(Prof. Ercument Erdem, Professor of commercial law at Galatasaray University

Law School, Istanbul)

Common Law Approach                                 

(Melanie Willems, Haynes Boone, London)

Discussion                                                                                                                 

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The Arbitrator’s authority as to evidence

Role as Umpire

Wider ex officio authority as to evidence

Limits and support from State Courts

Civil Law Approach                                          (Prof. José Carlos Fernandez Rozas, Professor of International Law at  Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Common law approach                                   

(John Fellas, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, New York)

Discussion                                                                                                                 

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Conclusion

End of the conference