Past Events

On 5 March 2013, Counsellor Mahmoud Fahmy, Former President of the Capital Market Authority and the Investment Authority - gave a lecture on "Arbitration in Disputes of Direct and Indirect Investments". The lecture covered various ways of solving investment disputes by arbitration under the Investment Law No. 8 of 1997 and the Capital Market Law No. 95 of 1992. Lively exchange of views and comments took place between the speaker and attendees.  

On 6 February 2013, Judge Mohamed Amin ELMahdy, Former President, Egyptian State Council, delivered a lecture on "Anti-Corruption Agreement and its Impact on Arbitration". The topic relates to the importance of the UN Convention against corruption and its relevancy and potential impact on arbitration. The role of the arbitrator in fighting corruption was also discussed with special emphasis on the duties of international arbitral tribunals in this respect.  

On 2 January 2013, Dr. Mohamed Abdel Raouf, CRCICA Director, delivered a speech on "The Practice of Investment Treaty Arbitration before the ICSID: The Egyptian Experience." The lecture covered the lessons of the past learned from ICSID's case law involving Egypt with respect to both jurisdictional and substantive issues. The conclusion included some perspectives for the future. The lecture was followed by a lively discussion involving eminent legal figures from both the private and the public sectors.  

The Wednesday One Seminar Tradition was revived on 5 December 2012, by an interesting talk on "The Determination of the Law Applicable to the Merits of the Dispute: The Arbitral and Judicial Case Law." The speech was delivered by Dr. Hesham Sadek, Professor of Private International Law, Faculty of Law, Alexandria University and Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

On 5 December 2012, CRCICA hosted a lecture on Comparative Arbitration within the Context of the Program on Contractual and Legal Aspects in Construction Industry: Construction Law (CLAC) organized by the American University in Cairo (AUC). The Comparative Arbitration Module in this program is delivered by Dr. Mohamed Abdel Raouf, CRCICA Director jointly with Professor Mohamed Salah Abdel Wahab, Professor, Faculty of Law - Cairo University. The Module is a wide ranging one including intensive lecturing on the arbitration agreement and its legal effects, conflict of laws in international commercial arbitration, constitution of the arbitral tribunal, arbitration proceedings, applicable procedural rules and substantive laws, Arbitration Law No. 27/1994, UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, ICC Rules, the arbitral award, judicial review of the arbitral award, the annulment of the arbitral award and the different Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms(ADR).