International Commercial Mediation Comeptition

February 17, 2014February 16, 2015 JUDr. Martin SvatosPosted in Conferences, MediationTagged ICC, mediation

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From 6 to 12 February 2014 the ICC International Commercial Mediation Comeptition took place at the new ICC premise in Paris in order to bring the latest updates and news regarding international commercial mediation. The annual mediation week started by the first mediation roundtable bringing the leading mediators and ADR experts from all around the world together. This year, Martin Svatos participated for the first time.

This was followed by the biggest educational event of the year – the ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition. Dr. Svatos acted as a judge in couple of rounds.

Law students from Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich have won the 9th ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition, beating first-time entrants Monash University, Australia.

For more information visit ICC webpages.

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Martin is one of the leading Czech mediators and arbitrators. He has acted in more than 200 both international and domestic cases in mediation (listed by the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic and by the Energy Community). His experiences in alternative dispute resolution were appreciated when he became the President of the Working group of the ICC Czech Republic for mediation. Martin has acted in several arbitrations both as chairman, member of the tribunal and of counsel (listed as arbitrator by the VIAC, Arbitration Court of the Czech Football Association, Czech Arbitration Court and Czech Commodity Exchange Arbitration Court). Martin lectures at the Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) and at the Seminar of European and Comparative Law in Urbino (Italy). He has been visiting professor at the University of the French West Indies in Guadeloupe. He also gave a course at the Faculté Libre de Droit Institut Catholique de Toulouse, at the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia), at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (both PRC), Georgetown University (USA) and many others. In 2016, he acted as a member of the Czech delegation to the UNCITRAL WG II. He publishes and gives speeches at international conferences on regular basis. He is one of the co-editors of the EU Mediation Handbook (Kluwer International, 2017). As a speaker, he attended many international conferences all around the globe (the UIA World Forum of Mediation Centres, the IBA Annual Conference, the German Arbitration Institute Annual Conference, the Conference of the Mediators’ Institute of Ireland (Dublin) and YIAG conferences (Istanbul, Warsaw)...