11.09.2024

From 3 to 7 Sep­tem­ber 2024 the AI­JA (As­so­cia­ti­on In­ter­na­tio­na­le des Jeu­nes Avo­cats) An­nu­al Con­gress took place in Ma­drid wi­th 790 par­ti­ci­pan­ts from all over the world at­ten­ding the event.

Le­buhn & Puch­ta was re­pre­sen­ted by Hen­drik­je Herr­mann who mo­de­ra­ted the pa­nel „Whe­re is my ship­ment? When in­ter­na­tio­nal trade goes sour“. Du­ring a round­ta­ble dis­cus­sion wi­th ex­perts from the oil and gas in­dus­try as well as la­wy­ers from Bra­zil, Chi­na, Ita­ly, the Ne­t­her­lands and Aus­tria, the im­pacts of the glo­bal chal­lenges faced in re­cent ye­ars on in­ter­na­tio­nal trade, trans­port and ar­bi­tra­ti­on pro­cee­dings we­re dis­cus­sed. Key le­gal ques­ti­ons ad­dres­sed we­re the con­se­quen­ces of sanc­tions on de­li­very ob­li­ga­ti­ons, spe­ci­fi­cal­ly un­der Bills of La­ding, the im­pacts of the con­flict in Ukrai­ne on ar­bi­tra­ti­on pro­cee­dings wi­th Rus­si­an par­ties as well as the in­cor­po­ra­ti­on and ade­quacy of ar­bi­tra­ti­on clau­ses as a dis­pu­te re­so­lu­ti­on me­cha­nism for in­ter­na­tio­nal trans­port con­tracts