Mediation and Arbitration

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The teacher will give oral classes about the subjects. Students will be invited to discuss those subjects. The teacher will previously send the students court decisions, foreign and Portuguese laws and some problems to be studied. 

Learning Outcomes

Analysis of Mediation and Arbitration problems that are currently beeing discussed and identification of major tendencies and the rational of Court decisions.

Competencies:

d)         Deep Knowledge about up-to-date Mediation and Arbitration problems;

e)         Deep Knowledge about practical themes;

f)          Critical view about how the Courts have decided on the Mediation and Arbitration problems that where studied and suggesting alternative ways.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I

1 - Alternative dispute resolution under national public law.

2 – Conciliation mechanisms, mediation mechanisms and transaction mechanisms.

3 – In particular, arbitration relating to legal and administrative disputes: arbitration on the validity of the administrative act, on public procurement, on civil liability.

 

II

1.             Mediation

1.1. General principles in action

1.2. Pre-court mediation

1.3. Public mediation

 

2.             Arbitration

2.1. Arbitrability

2.2. Arbitration agreement

2.3. Autonomy and Competence/Competence

2.4. The choice of the arbitrator

2.5. Arbitration and state courts

2.6. AppealsRecursos

2.7. Annulment of the arbitral award

2.8. Recognition and enforcement of foreing arbitral awards   

Head Lecturer(s)

Pedro António Pimenta Costa Gonçalves

Assessment Methods

Assessment
The evaluation will be carried out through an annotation project: 100.0%

Bibliography

LOPES, DULCE/PATRÃO, AFONSO, Lei da mediação comentada, Almedina.

MARTINS, ALEXANDRE DE SOVERAL, «Arbitragem e propriedade industrial: medicamentos de referência e medicamentos genéricos», RLJ, 144.º, 3993, jul-ago 2015, p. 418 e ss..

MENDES, RIBEIRO, e outros, Lei da arbitragem voluntária anotada, 2.ª ed., Almedina.

VENTURA, RAÚL, «Convenção de arbitragem» ROA, 1986, II, p. 289 e ss..

Pedro Costa Gonçalves, ARBITRAGEM E REGULAÇÃO (A ARBITRABILIDADE DOS CONFLITOS REGULATÓRIOS), Revista Internacional de Arbitragem e Conciliação, Vol. VII, 2014, 65-86.

BARROCAS, PEREIRA, Lei de arbitragem comentada, Almedina.

BARROCAS, PEREIRA, Manual de arbitragem, 2.ª ed., Almedina.

CORDEIRO, MENEZES, Tratado da arbitragem, Almedina.

CORREIA, FERRER, «Da arbitragem comercial internacional», RDE, 1984/1985.

Víctor Escartín Escudé, EL ARBITRAJE Y OTROS MEDIOS ALTERNATIVOS DE RESOLUCIÓN DE CONFLICTOS EN EL DERECHO ADMINISTRATIVO, Revista Aragonesa de Administración Pública, núms. 39-40, Zaragoza, 2012, pp. 101-163.

Huergo Lora, A. (2000): LA RESOLUCIÓN EXTRAJUDICIAL DE CONFLICTOS EN EL DERECHO ADMINISTRATIVO, Publicaciones del Real Colegio de España, Bolonia.

J. Polinari, PROFILI SISTEMATICI DELL’ARBITRATO NEL DIRITTO AMMINISTRATIVO, Roma, 2009.

Pedro Costa Gonçalves, ADMINISTRAÇÃO PÚBLICA E ARBITRAGEM – EM ESPECIAL, O PRINCÍPIO LEGAL DA IRRECORRIBILIDADE DE SENTENÇAS ARBITRAIS, Estudos em Homenagem a António Barbosa de Melo, Coimbra, Almedina, 2013, 777-801.