Dr Reza Beheshti presented a paper entitled 'the absence of choice-law-clause in international commercial contracts: problems and solutions' at the 2018 Asia Pacific Colloquium of the Journal of Private International Law (JPIL) held on Tuesday 11 December 2018 at the Law Faculty of Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.
The paper addressed a significantly practical legal issue in the fields of international arbitration and conflict of laws. This research focussed on the latest developments concerning the choice of applicable substantive law by arbitral tribunal in situations where commercial parties have failed to select the applicable law. The paper aimed at providing the arbitral tribunal with a set of effective, helpful measures utilised in determining the appropriate applicable law in pursuant to UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules 2010 and ICC Arbitration Rules 2017.
The Colloquium was in the form of an all-day roundtable discussion conducted in English. Persons whose papers have been chosen delivered their presentations in turn. Each presentation was followed by a discussion of 20 minutes in which all participants in the Colloquium (including members of the JPIL's Editorial Board and specially-invited private international law academics from the Asia-Pacific region) commented on the presentation. The objective of the Colloquium was to assist presenters to improve their papers with a view to eventual publication, possibly in the JPIL.
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