China's Belt and Road Initiative

- Opportunities and Challenges for International Dispute Resolution and Contracting -

The Chinese European Legal Association (CELA) cordially invites you to celebrate CEAC's 10th anniversary with a conference in Hamburg on 13 / 14 September 2018

Registration is closed because the conference is fully booked. Please contact Prof. Dr. Eckart Brödermann at eckart.broedermann@ceac-arbitration.com to ask for last minute opportunities.

China´s Belt and Road Initiative (“BRI”) is bound to have a major economic impact. The conference will analyse to what extent it relates to different common and civil law legal orders and how to build bridges to overcome the diversity of the legal systems, both from a contractual (substantive) perspective with the help of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts and the CISG and from an arbitration law perspective.

The conference takes place in the year of the dog - a sign for loyalty and mutual trust. It is a good year to celebrate 10 years since CEAC‘s opening and the founding of CELA.

Who should attend?

Lawyers with an interest in China, arbitration practitioners, international lawyers, business community in cross-border business.

The Faculty includes inter alia

Angelo Anglani, Rome • Chiann Bao, Hong Kong (requested) • Roger Barton, New York • Dr. Guido Carducci, London • Litsan Chong, Thailand Arbitration Centre, Bangkok • Hew Dundas, Honorary Vice President of the Scottish Arbitration Centre and Chairman of the CEAC Advisory Board, Edinburgh • Dr. Björn Etgen, Hamburg • Jessica Fei, Beijing • Prof. Dr. Lauro Gama, University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro • Anna Grishchenkova, Russian Arbitration Center, Moscow • Dr. Peter Heckel, Frankfurt • Dr. Li Hu, Vice President of the Arbitration Court of China, Deputy Secretary General CIETAC and Vice Chairman CMAC, Beijing • Bart Kasteleijn, Member CEAC Appointing Authority, Amsterdam • Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur, University of Hamburg, Hamburg • Christopher Lau SC, Singapore • Xuelian Liu, Urumqi (China) • Prof. Dr. Mohamed-Hossam Loutfi, Cairo • Prof. Dr. Peter Mankowski, University of Hamburg, Hamburg • Dr. Francesca Mazza, Secretary General DIS, Berlin/Cologne • Friedrich-Joachim Mehmel, President of the Constitutional Court and the Higher Administrative Court of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Hamburg • Prof. Dr. Marian Paschke, University of Hamburg, Hamburg • Ivett Paulovics, Milano • Dharshini Prasad, London • Dr. Axel R. Reeg, Mannheim (requested) • Prof. Dr. Bernd Reinmüller, Honorary President, Union Internationale des Advocats, Frankfurt/Genf • Dr. Dorothee Ruckteschler, Stuttgart • Dr. Carsten van de Sande, Frankfurt • Friederike Schäfer, International Court of Arbitration, International Chamber of Commerce, Paris • Prof. (em.) Dr. Ingeborg Schwenzer, Basel • Dr. Ismail Selim, Cairo • Dr. Volker Schumacher, Düsseldorf • Prof. Jingxia Shi, Council of UNIDROIT, Beijing • Hiroyuki Tezuka, Co-Chair of the Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Committee of the IPBA, Tokyo • Peter Thorp, Paris • Alexandros Tsirigos, Athens (requested) • Prof. Dr. Rolf Trittmann, Frankfurt • Helen Tung, London • Prof. Anna Veneziano, Secretary-General ad interim, UNIDROIT, Rome • Prof. Stefan Vogenauer, Frankfurt (requested) • Zhengzhi Wang, Beijing • Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wegen, Stuttgart • Martin Wiebecke, Zurich • Dr. Hang Zhao, Beijing • Prof. Dr. Bruno Zeller, University of Western Australia, Perth

14.00: Meeting at Elbphilharmonie, Platz der Deutschen Einheit 1, D-20457 Hamburg (ca. 10 min. Taxi ride from the hotel)

14.15: Guided tour in English through the Elbphilharmonie (25,- EUR p.P.)

Please register separately on a first come, first serve basis for the tour with reference "guided tour Elphi" by email to eckart.broedermann@ceac-arbitration.com.

Participating Persons

• Early Bird Conference Fee until 30 April 2018: 460,- EUR (+ 19% VAT)
  The fee includes the conference, the 10 year birthday reception, coffee breaks on Thursday and Friday, drinks and dinner on Thursday, drinks and cooking/dinner at the Vier Jahreszeiten on Friday.
• Early Bird without Friday evening until 30 April 2018: 290,- EUR (+19% VAT)
  The fee includes the conference, the 10 years birthday reception, coffee breaks on Thursday and Friday, drinks and dinner on Thursday, without the arbitration drinks, interactive cooking and dinner event at the Vier Jahreszeiten on Friday evening at 19.00.
• Conference Fee as of 1 May 2018: 560,- EUR (+ 19% VAT)
• Conference Fee as of 1 May 2018 without Friday Evening: 390,- EUR (+ 19% VAT)
• Arbitration Drinks, Cooking and Dinner on Friday: 175,- EUR (+ 19% VAT)
  Fee only for participation in the arbitration drinks, cooking and dinner event on Friday evening at 19.00.

Accompanying Persons (may join for meals)

• Drinks & Dinner Thursday: 100,- EUR (+ 19% VAT)
• Lunch Friday: 42,- EUR (+ 19% VAT)
• Drinks & Cooking/Dinner Friday: 170,- EUR (+ 19% VAT)

There will be no refunds for cancellations but substitutions are accepted.

You can pay the conference fee either via SEPA bank transfer or via PayPal. If you are going to pay by using PayPal, please refer to the account of ceacpay@web.de.

Rates are per room per night including breakfast and taxes. As of 1 May 2018 a surcharge of 5 EUR applies.
Code for booking: "CEAC 10 years"

Young CEAC members may apply to the CELA Management Board, in particular Thomas Weimann, Herbert Smith Freehills, Düsseldorf, and Dr. Elke Umbeck, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Hamburg, for a scholarship to attend the conference at thomas.weimann@hsf.com and e.umbeck@heuking.de.

• Prof. Dr. Eckart Brödermann
  Managing Director CEAC
• Dr. Christine Heeg-Weimann
  Secretary General CEAC
• Thomas Weimann
  President CELA
• Dr. Elke Umbeck
  Vice President CELA
• Dr. Richard Happ
• Catrice Gayer
  Young CEAC
• Jonas Pust
  Young CEAC
• Dr. York Zieren
  Young CEAC