Fernando Ramos, Rector of Universidade Portucalense

Maria Manuela M. Silva, Director of the Legal Institute and of the Law Department

Moderator: Suzana Fernandes da Costa (Instituto Jurídico Portucalense/UPT; IPCA; Lawyer)

Speakers:

Lídia Jacob (Director General of the Directorate General for Justice Policy) - State of the art of de-judicialisation

Guilherme Figueiredo (Former President of the Portuguese Bar Association) - Critical reflection on de-judicialisation

Cassio Scarpinella Bueno (President of the Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law; Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo) - Procedural business and the de-judicialisation of conflict

Diana Leiras (President of the Braga District Delegation of OSAE) - The role of Solicitors in the face of de-judicialisation

Moderator: Flávia Pereira Hill (Rio de Janeiro State University; Estácio de Sá University) and Humberto Dalla (Rio de Janeiro State University; Estácio de Sá University)

Speakers:

Agostinho Guedes (Universidade Católica Portuguesa Porto) - The impartiality of the arbitrator.

Santiago Pereira Campos (President of the Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law; University of Montevideo) - Desjudicialisation and a systemic approach to civil justice in Ibero-America

Giovanni Priori (Vice-President of the Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law) - Illicit evidence in arbitration

Maria Victoria Mosmann (Universidad Católica de Salta) - Multiculturalism and conflict resolution outside the ordinary justice system

Rogéria Fagundes Dotti ((Secretary General of the Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law) - Dejudicialisation and the free dismissal of the enforcement agent

Moderator: António Sérgio Silva (CICAP Director)

Speakers:

Irene Coppola (Università degli Studi di Salerno) - La cyberjustice: attività conciliativa dalla tecnologia alla tecnica

Maria João Mimoso (Instituto Jurídico Portucalense/UPT) - Consumer protection in passenger air transport

Cátia Marques Cebola (Politécnico de Leiria; Instituto Jurídico Portucalense/IPL) - Consumer mediation: operational problems in the current context of arbitration centres

Moderator: Irene Neves (Judge at the North Central Administrative Court)

Speakers:

César Garcia Nóvoa (Santiago de Compostela University) - Alternative means of resolving tax disputes in Spain.

Suzana Fernandes da Costa (Instituto Jurídico Portucalense/UPT; IPCA; Lawyer) - The evolution of tax arbitration in Portugal

Maria do Rosário Anjos (Universidade Lusófona; Instituto Jurídico Portucalense/UPT) - Arbitration in the new Public Contracts Code

Bárbara Magalhães (Instituto Jurídico Portucalense/UPT) - The (lack of) need for an administrative arbitration law?

Moderator: Susana Almeida (Polytechnic of Leiria; Portucalense Legal Institute/IPL)

Speakers:

J. P. Remédio Marques (University of Coimbra; Universidade Portucalense) - Arbitration in intellectual property disputes

Fernando Dias Simões (Universidade Lusíada; Universidade Portucalense) - De-Judicialisation vs. Depoliticisation: Investment Arbitration

Ricardo Nascimento (Lawyer; Universidade Portucalense) - Between Laws and Lines: Unravelling Sports Arbitration in Portugal