Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes is delighted to invite you for an afternoon to discuss the impact of Professor Emmanuel Gaillard’s legal thinking in Brazil at the historical Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro on 14 May.
Toby Landau KC will close the event with the 2025 Gaillard Lecture on “Adjectives, Abuse and Bad Faith – Reconsidering Ethics and the Rule of Law”. The event will be followed by a cocktail at the Frontal Rooms of the Copacabana Palace.
Professor Gaillard was deeply connected with the Brazilian arbitration community. So was his thinking. The incipient stages of what later became his seminal work on Legal Theory of International Arbitration1 was delivered as a keynote speech in a 2006 conference of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee in Salvador, Bahia.
The Gaillard Lecture is an itinerant lecture series created in memory of Professor Emmanuel Gaillard. Each year, the Lecture engages with key questions shaping the field. Previous lectures were held in Paris, London and Cairo.
Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes thanks Arbitration Channel for its kind support.
Detailed program here and registration here.
14:00 – Welcome address | Remembering Emmanuel Gaillard: the Brazilian connection (Yas Banifatemi)
14:15 – Panel 1 | Parties’ and their counsel’s ethical conduct
- Sanctioning unethical conduct in the normal arbitral process (Marcelo Ferro)
- The impact of the absence of an international bar (Natália Mizrahi Lamas)
- Sanctioning abuse of process (Sergio Mannheimer)
- Sanctioning corruption (João Bosco Lee)
- 15:15 Debate and Q&A
16:15 – Panel 2 | Non-parties’ ethical conduct
- Arbitrators’ ethical conduct (Eduardo Gonçalves)
- Experts’ ethical conduct (Marcela Levy)
- What role for the setting aside and enforcement courts in fostering ethical conduct? (Adriana Braghetta)
- What role for other arbitration actors in fostering ethical conduct? (José Antonio Fichtner)
- Debate and Q&A
17:45 – 2025 GAILLARD LECTURE| Adjectives, Abuse and Bad Faith: Reconsidering Ethics and the Rule of Law (Toby Landau KC)
18:30 – Final address | The legacy of Emmanuel Gaillard
1. To find out more about Emmanuel Gaillard’s writings, and in particular his 2007 Course at the Hague Academy, Legal Theory of International Arbitration (Martinus Nijhoff, 2010), please refer to his extensive bibliography.
