Research and Education

As part of our continuous effort to help further develop the discussion on international trade, arbitration and other emerging fields of law, our team regularly publishes scholarly articles and essays in various outlets.

Additionally, we have increasingly focused our efforts on multiplying knowledge through open courses and educational activities developed with our partner network.

Legal education for the 2020s

13/01/2019

In partnership with FIA (Fundação Instituto de Administração) and IRICE (Instituto de Relações Internacionais e Comércio Exterior), Atelier Jurídico is offering the lato sensu post-graduate course on Diplomacy and Corporate Entrepreneurship

The course offers managers and legal directors a practical vision of the challenges involved in international trade and their impact on daily decision-making in companies.

For more info, contact academic coordinator Cláudia Galaverna at [email protected] or (11) 94112-7333.

What compensates tears?

13/05/2019

What solutions can law bring to the issue of major disasters? Could collective arbitration combine efficiency and justice in repairing damage to victims? In the wake of the recent catastrophes in Mariana and Brumadinho, Atelier Jurídico founder and Nakagawa Baptista & Baptista partner Luiz Olavo Baptista recalls the experience of the United Nations Compensation Committee, created after the Gulf War to indemnify those affected by the conflict, and reflects on the solutions contemporary legal practice can offer to cases of this kind:

“Given the large number of victims and the extensive material and environmental damage, I dare not say there is a method that both satisfies and reduces the impact of this incident with the various possibilities to be explored along the third-party funding companies in the market. For this reason, the legal model and mentality used in the Panels of the UNCC could be transported and adapted to the reality of Brumadinho – perhaps with the new perspective of a class arbitration.”

Read more at the Kluwer Arbitration blog.

Antidumping and Global Value Chains

14/04/2019

At the commemorative 1000th edition of the traditional Revista dos Tribunais journal, Professor Luiz Olavo Baptista discusses the Brazilian approach to antidumping and trade defence with regards to its institutional treatment of global value chains.

Available at the RT website.

Brazil and France: Arbitration Compared

12/02/2019

The book Brasil e França: a Arbitragem na Visão Comparada (“Brazil and France: Arbitration in comparative vision”) is now available for free download – it is available in Portuguese and French here.

Luiz Olavo Baptista contributed with a chapter on the Brazilian and French conceptions of public order in international arbitration.

The book is a result of the seminar “Superior Tribunal de Justiça e Corte de Cassação Francesa: a Arbitragem na Visão Comparada” (“Superior Court of Justice and the French Cour de Cassation: Arbitration in comparative vision”,) promoted by the Brazilian Superiour Court of Justice, the French Cour de Cassation, and FGV Projetos, which took place in Brasília in September 2017.

It compiles discussions held during the seminar, which brought together Brazilian Superiour Court and French Cour de Cassation Justices together to exchange experiences on the use of arbitration in dispute resolution in Brazil and France.