Welcome!
Dear Friends
We look forward to welcome you in person in Macau.
It is with great pleasure that we greet and welcome you to participate in the 1st Lusophone Arbitration Congress, Macau 2024.
In this publication you will find the reach, content, opportunities and information about the 1st Lusophone Arbitration Congress.
This will be the first time that arbitrators from the Portuguese Speaking Countries, Macau and China will gather to discuss, promote and affirm the strength of Lusophone arbitration and the role to be carried out by them.
This Congress will provide the perfect setting to bridge legal cultures and expand opportunities.
Leonel Alves
歐安利
ALAM Chairman of the General Assembly
Bruno Nunes
盧偉樂
ALAM Chairman of the Board
Liu Xiaochun
劉曉春
President of Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration
Stephen Morgan
麥侍文
USJ Rector
Introduction
Portuguese-speaking jurisdictions occupy a unique place geographically, sociologically, economically, and politically, in global terms. They occupy 7.2% of the Earth’s landmass (148,939,063 km2) and are spread over four continents: Europe, America, Africa, and Asia. In this space, officially reside 258,466,109 inhabitants and the combined GDP of the aforementioned jurisdictions corresponds to 2.7 billion USD.
In the Plan of Action of the 5th Ministerial Conference of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese- speaking Countries (2017-2019) agreed “4.4 The Ministers reiterated their support for taking advantage of Macao’s comparative advantages in the knowledge of the legal systems of China and Portuguese-speaking countries, including its promotion as one of the places of arbitration for the resolution of possible conflicts arising from trade between entrepreneurs from the Participating Countries of the Macao Forum.