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CalendaractivitiesCalendar

Setting the scenario: nature, scope and legal framework of international arbitration

9:15 - 10:45

MORNING SESSIONWELCOME BREAKFAST AND INTRODUCTION 8:30 - 9:15

10:45 - 11:00 BREAK

12:30 - 14:00 BREAK

14:00 - 15:30 ArbIt roundtable: determining the place of the arbitration and the applicable laws

15:30 - 15:45 BREAK15:45 - 17:15 Meeting the institutions: an inside view

19:00 - 21:00

11:00 - 12:30 Founding principles and core elements of international arbitration

CERTIFICATE’S INAUGURAL APERITIVO

AFTERNOON SESSION

at Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP

21 21Monday Monday

The arbitration agreement: formal and substantive validity

9:15 - 10:45

MORNING SESSION

10:45 - 11:00 BREAK

12:30 - 14:00 BREAK

14:00 - 15:30 Selecting, analyzing and drafting arbitration agreements

15:30 - 15:45 BREAK15:45 - 17:15 In-house counsel debate:

dispute resolution options and management of disputes

11:00 - 12:30 Complex privity: extension of arbitration obligations in multiparty transactions

AFTERNOON SESSION

Tuesday Tuesday22 22

23 23Wednesday Wednesday

The Arbitral Tribunal: selection of arbitrators, strategy of appointment, powers and reach

9:15 - 10:45

MORNING SESSION

10:45 - 11:00 BREAK

12:30 - 14:00 BREAK

14:00 - 15:30 Running the arbitration: organization of proceedings

15:30 - 15:45 BREAK15:45 - 17:15 The gathering of evidence in international arbitration:

expert reports, fact witness, disclosure of evidence

11:00 - 12:30 Independence and impartiality of arbitrators: disclosure, challenges, removals

AFTERNOON SESSION

International arbitration and foreign investment protection

9:15 - 10:45

MORNING SESSION

10:45 - 11:00 BREAK

12:30 - 14:00 BREAK

14:00 - 15:30 The arbitral award: deliberation and drafting. Challenging arbitral awards: grounds and international overview

15:30 - 15:45 BREAK15:45 - 17:15 Enforcement of investment treaty

and commercial awards

11:00 - 12:30 Investment treaty arbitration: procedure

AFTERNOON SESSION

24 24Thursday Thursday

Emergency arbitration9:15 - 10:45

MORNING SESSION

10:45 - 11:00 BREAK

12:30 - 14:00 BREAK

14:00 - 15:30 Current issues in international arbitration: Covid-19 and its impact on international arbitration

University of Roma Tre - UNIDROIT 7th Annual International Arbitration Lecture

15:30 - 15:45 BREAK

11:00 - 12:30 Cross examination: techniques and mock trial

AFTERNOON SESSION

25 25Friday Friday

15:45 - 17:15

CONFERRAL OF CERTIFICATES

Lucy ReedPresident, ICCA Governing Board

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Ignacio Tirado

Andrea ZoppiniSecretary General, UNIDROIT; Professor of Commercial Law, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Professor of Private Law, Roma Tre University

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University of Roma Tre - UNIDROIT7th Annual International Arbitration Lecture

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Facultyour Faculty

Andrea Carlevaris

Andrea Carlevaris has been Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and Director of Dispute Resolution Services of the ICC from 2012 to 2017. He is a member of the Board of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, EFILA (the European Forum of International Law and Investment), IMI (International Mediation Institute) and AIA (the Italian Association for Arbitration), a founding member and member of the Advisory Board of ArbIt (the Italian Forum for Arbitration and ADR) and a member of the Steering Committee of the International Arbitration Commission of UIA (Union International des Avocats).

Partner at Bonelli Erede

Cecilia CarraraPartner at Legance

Cecilia Carrara has significant experience in the field of national and international, commercial and investment arbitration proceedings, both institutional and ad hoc, acting as counsel and as arbitrator. She further represents international and Italian companies in arbitration-related proceedings in front of the national courts, such as recognition and enforcement proceedings of arbitral awards. Cecilia has been admitted to practice before the Italian Supreme Court. Cecilia also focuses on mergers & acquisitions, extraordinary corporate transactions and commercial contracts, mainly representing foreign clients investing in Italy. In particular, Cecilia is responsible for the Legance German desk, having a specific focus on German speaking countries and Eastern Europe. Cecilia is pro bono partner and coordinates the corporate social activities of the Firm.

ValentineChessaPartner at CastaldiPartners

Valentine Chessa is an Italian national admitted to the Paris Bar. She joined the arbitration practice of Castaldi Mourre & Partners in 2010 after starting her career at the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration as Deputy Counsel. She acts as counsel in cases under the main institutional rules and ad hoc proceedings, from the pre-arbitration phase to enforcement of the award. She also acts as arbitrator and secretary to arbitral tribunals. She has been a Co-Chair of ArbIt (the Italian Forum for Arbitration and ADR) and board member/events co-director for Europe of Arbitral Women. She is currently one of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration reporters for France. Her working languages are English, Italian and French.

Michelangelo CicognaPartner at De Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani Studio Legale

Michelangelo Cicogna has significant expertise in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and has acted both as counsel and arbitrator in administered and ad hoc procedures according, among the others, to the rules of ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, MKAS, Milan (CAM), Madrid, AIA, Bucharest, Swiss Chambers and the PCA in the Hague, dealing with complex litigation, including multiparty and parallel arbitrations, and mainly focusing on construction, procurement and infrastructure, insurance, IT and telecommunications, JV and consortia and commercial law. Author of numerous publications on arbitration and mediation, he teaches Advocacy in International Arbitration at Luigi Bocconi University and holds seminars and conferences on ADR and international arbitration. He is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration, Officer of the IBA International Arbitration Committee, past president of the AIJA International Arbitration Commission and Vice-Chair of the Arbitration Committee of ABA SIL. He is co-founder and Co-Chair of ArbIt (Italian Forum for Arbitration and ADR).

Benedetta Copp0

Benedetta Coppo joined the Milan Chamber of Arbitration in 2001, where she has been head of the arbitration department (2007-2013), administering both domestic and international arbitration proceedings. As a member of the Secretariat of the Milan Chamber of Arbitration, she also took part in the 2010 and 2019 revisions of the CAM Arbitration Rules. Since 2014, she leads the Rome branch office of the Chamber.

Head of the Rome branch office of the Milan Chamber of Arbitration

Maria Beatrice DeliSecretary General of the Italian Association for Arbitration (AIA) and Secretary General of ICC ItalyCertificate’s Director

Maria Beatrice Deli is Professor of International Law at the University of Molise and of International Arbitration at the University of Roma Tre School of Law. Her fields of expertise are public and private international law and international commercial and investment arbitration. She acts as arbitrator and counsel in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations and she is currently partner at a newly-founded arbitration and litigation boutique. She is Secretary General of the Italian Association for Arbitration (AIA) and Secretary General of ICC Italy. She is co-founder of ArbIt (Italian Forum for arbitration and ADR) and a member of the editorial board of the “Rivista dell’Arbitrato” and “Diritto del Commercio Internazionale”.

DomenicoDi PietroCounsel at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP Certificate’s Director

Domenico Di Pietro has taught international arbitration at major academic institutions and has lectured on the same topic worldwide. His publications on arbitration have been cited by leading judicial authorities in several countries. He has practiced commercial and investor-State arbitration for 25 years in jurisdictions as diverse as Italy, England, Japan and the U.S.  He appeared in several arbitrations at the Olympics and frequently serves as an arbitrator under the rules of all major institutions. He graduated at “La Sapienza” and received his LL.M. from Queen Mary, University of London. He is a past Fellow of New York University School of Law and is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators. He is qualified in Italy and in England and Wales. He is currently based in Miami, Florida.

Kabir DuggalSenior Associate at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP and Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School

Dr. Kabir Duggal focuses his New York-based practice on international investment arbitration, international commercial arbitration and public international law matters, serving both as counsel and arbitrator. He is also a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School teaching international arbitration. He also acts as a Consultant for the United Nations Office of the High Representative for Least Developed Countries (UN-OHRLLS) on the creation of a novel “Investment Support Program” and serves on the Steering Committee of the Investment Support Program. He has advised several Governments on public international law and dispute resolution matters. He is elected to the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the California International Arbitration Council, Inc. (CIAC) and serves on its Academic Council. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Boston International Arbitration Council (BIAC). He is a graduate of the University of Mumbai, Oxford, NYU Law, Leiden Law, and is pursuing a second doctoral degree from Harvard Law School.

Ferdinando Emanuele

Ferdinando Emanuele’s practice focuses on national and international litigation and arbitration. He is considered to be one of the leading Italian experts in international arbitration, multi-plaintiff and class actions litigations. Ferdinando has authored two books and various law review articles on international arbitration. He is President of the ICC Italy Commission on International Arbitration and ADR and served as one of the 15 members of the Rome Bar Council (Consiglio dell’Ordine) from 2004 to 2006. Ferdinando obtained an LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School. He is fluent in English and proficient in Spanish.

Partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

GustavFlecke-Giammarco

Gustav Flecke-Giammarco regularly acts as counsel and arbitrator in domestic and international arbitral proceedings. Prior to setting up Seven Summits Arbitration, a Munich-based boutique law firm founded in 2017, Gustav was a Senior Associate in the litigation and arbitration practice group at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek. Before joining Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek in 2015, Gustav worked at the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration as Deputy Counsel (2009-2011) and Counsel (2011-2015). He is a guest lecturer at the University of Bonn, Swiss Arbitration Academy and Swiss International Law School. In addition, Gustav is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of International Arbitration and regularly publishes on international commercial arbitration.

Partner at Seven Summits Arbitration

Alma Forgo

Manuel A. Gomez

Head of Commercial Litigation and Arbitration at Airbus

Alma Forgó is a German-qualified lawyer. Before joining Airbus, she worked as Deputy Counsel at the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, where she was in charge of international arbitration cases mainly involving parties from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Baltic countries. Before joining the ICC, Alma trained in the international arbitration departments of Wilmer Hale in London and of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris. Alma holds law degrees from the Universities of Munich and Paris II.

Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Global Engagement and Professor of Law at Florida International University

Manuel A. Gómez is a Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Global Engagement at Florida International University College of Law. He specializes in international dispute resolution, comparative civil procedure, and complex litigation. He is a Board Member of the Miami International Arbitration Society (MIAS), leads the Law School Liaison Committee of the International Law Section of the Florida Bar, and serves as the Coordinator of the Latin America & Caribbean Group of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center (SVAMC). Professor Gómez is the Editor-in-Chief of the World Arbitration and Mediation Review (WAMR). Gómez is the author, editor or co-editor of numerous publications in the field of dispute resolution and governance and the globalization of the legal profession.

MartinGusyPartner at K&L Gates LLP and Head of the U.S. International Arbitration Practice

Martin Gusy is a partner in K&L Gates LLP’s New York office and heads the firm’s U.S. international arbitration practice. He has more than 15 years of international dispute resolution, litigation and corporate experience. Martin focuses on international arbitration and complex cross-border litigation involving private parties and sovereigns both as counsel and as an arbitrator covering matters in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America. Ranked in Chambers Global for his international arbitration expertise, he is civil/common law dual-licensed and his working languages include English, German, Spanish and French.

RosannaGrossoSenior Counsel Litigation at Siemens AG

Rosanna Grosso plays a key role at Siemens in the strategic planning, early case assessment, preparation and defense of complex litigation and arbitration matters with a particular focus on international commercial disputes across various sectors and project disputes. She obtained an LL.M. in common law studies from Georgetown Law School. After working in Brussels, Shanghai, Stuttgart and Frankfurt, in 2002 she joined the legal department of Siemens in Munich. She started advising the sales and execution teams of the IT Business on international outsourcing transactions and moved on to assist the Mobility and Wind Divisions on complex international supply, system and plant projects. Rosanna speaks fluently English, German, French and Spanish.

Hussein Haeri

Hussein Haeri is a Partner and Co-Head of International Arbitration at the law firm Withers LLP, based in the firm's London office. He is a Solicitor-Advocate of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. He has worked as counsel and advocate based in London, New York and Paris on international arbitrations under all the major rules over the last 15 years. He is recognised in Who’s Who Legal, which notes that he is ‘an amazing lawyer and thorough professional’ and by Chambers and Partners and Legal 500, which states that “The practical and solutions driven Haeri is outstanding” and that “He combines huge intellectual powers with great client handling and gives straight-to-the-point advice”. Hussein is a Visiting Lecturer on Investment Treaty Arbitration at SOAS, University of London.

Partner at Withers LLP and Co-Head of the International Arbitration Group

James HoskingPartner at Chaffetz Lindsey LLP

James Hosking focuses his practice on international commercial and investment arbitration. Based in New York, he has handled arbitrations under the rules of all the leading arbitral institutions, including ICC International Court of Arbitration, AAA/ ICDR, SIAC, LCIA, WIPO, CRCICA and ICSID, as well as under the UNCITRAL Rules. James also sits as an arbitrator. He was previously an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and University of Auckland, where he taught International Commercial Arbitration. Before founding Chaffetz Lindsey LLP, he was a partner in the New York office of Clifford Chance.

Stefan KrollDirector of the Center for International Dispute Resolution at Bucerius Law School

Stefan Kröll is an independent arbitrator with experience of arbitration proceedings in all areas of national and international business law including the involvement of state parties. He is Professor of International Dispute Resolution at Bucerius Law School and Director of its Center for International Dispute Resolution. In addition, Stefan regularly gives lectures and talks at other leading institutions in Germany and abroad and is a Visiting Professor at the School of International Arbitration, University of London. Since 2012 he is a Director of the Willem C. Vis Arbitration Moot in Vienna. Stefan is one of Germany’s national correspondents at UNCITRAL and has been retained by UNCITRAL as one of three experts to prepare the Digest on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration.

SabineKonradPartner at Morgan Lewis

Sabine Konrad specializes in the fields of international dispute resolution, in particular international arbitration and public international law. She regularly advises investors and governments in matters of investment protection and also sits as an arbitrator. In 2007, 2013 and 2019, Sabine was designated by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Panel of Arbitrators of the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). She is a member of the roster of arbitrators of the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), the list of practitioners of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), the Panel of Arbitrators and the Panel of Mediators of the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), the Panel of Arbitrators of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), and the Panel of Arbitrators of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), among others. She also founded the Frankfurt International Arbitration Moot Court, the leading international moot court in the investment treaty field.

Niccolo Landi

Niccolò Landi graduated in Law from the University of Siena and obtained an LL.M. in international commercial law from the University College Dublin. He is founding partner of Studio Legale Landi in association with BeecheyArbitration. Previously, he was an attorney at Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners where he specialized in international arbitration. He has authored several legal publications and articles on arbitration, EU law and international sale of goods. Niccolò is a lecturer at the Master in Public Procurement Management for Sustainable Development and at the Master in International Trade Law at the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization. He is also a past Co-Chair of ArbIt (the Italian Forum for Arbitration and ADR). He is a member of the Milan Bar and admitted to the Italian Supreme Court.

Founding Partner at Studio Legale Landi in association with BeecheyArbitration

Paolo MarzoliniName Partner at Patocchi & Marzolini

Paolo Marzolini is name partner of Patocchi & Marzolini, a law firm based in Geneva specialising in international arbitration. Paolo acts as counsel representing clients and sits as arbitrator in a number of jurisdictions under various sets of arbitration rules. He has been involved in several major international arbitrations. Paolo has published extensively on international arbitration and is often called as speaker in seminars dealing with arbitration-related matters and lecturer in international arbitration programmes. He is past Co-Chair and current member of the Advisory Board of ArbIt (Italian Forum for Arbitration and ADR) as well as member of IBA, ICCA, CIArb, ASA, the Italian Association for Arbitration (AIA), the Geneva Bar Association and the Pavia Bar Association.

Andrew G. PatonPartner at De Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani Studio Legale

Andrew G. Paton, an Australian national, has been working for 30 years in international commercial arbitration, both as legal counsel and as an arbitrator. Andrew is based in Rome and holds both common law and civil law qualifications (Italy, Australia and England). He has far-reaching experience in arbitration involving parties from different legal cultures, mainly in international trade, joint ventures, construction and investment and has acted as lead counsel in complex multi-jurisdictional disputes. Andrew is on the panel of several arbitral institutions in Europe and Asia, a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration, a fellow of the CIArb, a founding member of ArbIt (the Italian Forum for Arbitration and ADR), a member of the editorial board of the “Rivista dell’Arbitrato”.

Irene PetrelliPartner at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP

Irene Petrelli specializes in investment treaty arbitration, international commercial arbitration and public international law disputes. She has represented sovereign States and State-owned entities in connection with international arbitrations under the leading institutional and ad hoc arbitration rules, including those of ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, and CAM. Her cases have involved a wide range of sectors, including energy (oil & gas and power projects), taxation, banking, and telecommunications for clients in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia. Irene also worked as teaching assistant in international arbitration at Roma Tre University and as research assistant at the School of International Arbitration of the Queen Mary University of London.

Giacomo Rojas ElguetaAssociate Professor of Private Law and Economic Analysis of Law at Roma Tre University, School of LawCertificate’s Director

Giacomo Rojas Elgueta earned a LL.M. with distinction and a S.J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School. He is the author of three books and several articles in major Italian and U.S. law reviews. He consulted the Italian Government for law reforms on bankruptcy law, trust law and security interests. Giacomo is admitted to the Rome, Italy (2004) and New York Bar (2010). Giacomo is past Co-Chair of ArbIt (Italian Forum on International Arbitration and ADR) and is actively involved in commercial and investment arbitration as counsel, expert witness and arbitrator. Giacomo has acted as sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator in various arbitration proceedings, both ad hoc and under the rules of the ICC and the Milan Chamber of Arbitration with seat in different countries including Italy and Switzerland. Giacomo is currently partner at a newly-founded arbitration and litigation boutique.

Natalia PetrikLegal Counsel at the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce

Natalia Petrik has been legal counsel at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Institute since 2005. She has also been secretary at the SCC Mediation Institute (2006 – 2007) and secretary at the Swedish Arbitration Association for Young Lawyers at the SCC Institute (2006 – 2007). Previously, Natalia worked as an arbitration/litigation associate with major Swedish law firms. Natalia holds a double degree in Swedish and Russian law as well as a master degree summa cum laude in linguistics.

GabrieleRuscalla

Gabriele Ruscalla joined the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in November 2015, where he manages a team that administers a significant volume of international commercial and investment arbitrations. Prior to joining the ICC, he was an associate in the Shearman & Sterling’s International Arbitration Group in Paris and a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law. In May 2015, he defended his PhD thesis in International Arbitration at Bocconi University. Gabriele has taught seminars on issues of international commercial and investment arbitration, published notes and articles and participates as speaker at conferences on international-arbitration-related subjects.

Counsel of the Italian-Swiss Team at the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration

Beatriz Saiz MartiHead of Group Significant Litigations Department at Enel S.p.A

Beatriz Saiz Marti is Head of Group Significant Litigations Department at Enel Group. She has extensive experience in domestic and international arbitration and litigation in a variety of disputes in the energy sector. She has been involved in many arbitrations under a variety of applicable laws and arbitration rules in construction cases, as well as post-M&A and other transaction-related disputes. As in-house counsel she has handled many types of court proceedings and advised on litigation tactics and many other issues directly or indirectly bearing on pending or envisaged litigation. She graduated at Universidad CEU San Pablo (Spain) and holds a Master degree from Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne. She is admitted to practice in Spain. Her working languages include English, Italian, Spanish and French.

Marco TorselloName partner at ArbLit

Marco Torsello is name partner at ArbLit since 2017 and leads the department of litigation. Prior to becoming partner, he joined the firm as of counsel in 2014, after two decades of successful practice with major Italian law firms. A dual citizen (Italian and US), he is also Full Professor of Comparative Private Law at the School of Law of the University of Verona, and Global Professor of Law at NYU School of Law (Law-Abroad program in Paris). At Verona Law School Marco is the Coordinator of the Center for Excellence in Law, Technology and Social Change (IUSTeC), a member of the scientific committee of the PhD program in European and International Legal Studies and the Director of post-graduate courses in Transnational Commercial Agreements, Litigation and Arbitration and in Transnational and Comparative Food Law. Since 2018 he is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR.

Sylvia TonovaPartner at Jones Day

Sylvia Tonova is an international arbitration lawyer with 15 years of experience representing investors and states in investment treaty and commercial arbitrations. Before relocating to Jones Day in London, Sylvia practiced for seven years at an international law firm in Washington, D.C. Sylvia represents clients in arbitrations under all the major arbitration rules, including the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the ICSID Additional Facility Rules, and was appointed to the ICSID Panels of Arbitrators and of Conciliators by Bulgaria in 2016. Her practice focuses on investment and commercial disputes arising in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), including the successful representation of Bulgaria and Romania in four ICSID arbitrations. Sylvia regularly advises clients on enforcement of awards, sovereign immunity issues, arbitration clauses, and protecting investments against political risk in a range of industries, including oil and gas, mining, energy, banking, and telecommunications.

Baiju Vasani

Baiju Vasani is an international arbitration lawyer and arbitrator. He has also advised states on the negotiation and drafting of investment treaties, and investors on the structuring of their investments. Baiju is a Senior Fellow of SOAS, University of London and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and sits on the panel of several arbitral institutions, including ICSID. He previously served as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University and has given visiting lectures at, among other universities, Harvard, Northwestern, Columbia, and Bedfordshire.

Partner at Ivanyan & Partners

Marcello ViglinoArea Contract Manager at Salini-Impregilo S.p.A.

Marcello Viglino is an engineer who has been involved in construction projects overseas since 1998, working on large civil engineering contracts in several countries around the world. His professional activity is currently concerned with the management of international construction contracts and the settlement of any associated dispute through negotiation, Dispute Board and Arbitration. He studied civil engineering both in Italy and the UK where he also obtained an MSc in Construction Law & Dispute Resolution from the King’s College London. He is a visiting lecturer in Contract Management at the Milan Polytechnic, a chartered member of the Institution of Engineers (Italy), a member of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (USA) and a board member of the Italian Society of Construction Law.

Andrea ZoppiniFull Professor of Private Law at Roma Tre University, School of Law

Andrea Zoppini studied at the Universities of Cambridge and Heidelberg and was Visiting Scholar at the Yale University Law School and at New York University. He holds seminars and conferences in Italy and abroad and has published and edited numerous books and articles in Italian and foreign law journals. He was Under Secretary of Justice and Legal Advisor to the Italian Government, as well as member of the law reform committees on the law of savings, on the law of associations and foundations and on bankruptcy law.

VincenzoZeno-ZencovichFull Professor of Comparative Law at Roma Tre University, School of Law

Prof. Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich is chairman of the Italian Association of Comparative Law. He is editor or member of the editorial board of several important Italian law reviews and author, co-author or editor of over two dozen books. He has been a legal advisor to the Italian Government in the last two decades in all the telecoms tenders and auctions. As a practising lawyer he has successfully litigated in landmark cases in damages for defamation, consumer protection, tobacco litigation and liability of providers.

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