Lectures

Marco de Benito actively engages in debate and research forums related to arbitration and private and procedural law.

2021

  • Panel discussion “Appeals in the ELI-UNIDROIT Model European Rules of Civil Procedure”, IE Civil Procedure Series, Madrid, 30/11/2021.
  • Panel discussion “Case management and party autonomy in the ELI-UNIDROIT Model European Rules of Civil Procedure”, IE Civil Procedure Series, Madrid, 4/4/2021.
  • Panel discussion “Obligations of parties and lawyers in the ELI-UNIDROIT Model European Rules of Civil Procedure”, IE Civil Procedure Series, Madrid, 1/10/2021.
  • Panel discussion “Access to information and evidence in the ELI-UNIDROIT Model European Rules of Civil Procedure”, IE Civil Procedure Series, Madrid, 21/6/2021.

2020

  • Panel discussion “Structure of the ELI-UNIDROIT Model European Rules of Civil Procedure”, IE Civil Procedure Series, 1/12/2020.
  • Official presentation of the ELI-UNIDROIT Model European Rules of Civil Procedure, ELI, Vienna, 10/9/2020.
  • Panel discussion “Arbitraje y financiación por terceros”, I Seminario Internacional de Arbitraje, Contratación Pública y Junta de Resolución de Disputas, CIARD, Trujillo, Perú, 10/08/2020.
  • Panel discussion “Covid-19 frente a la lex mercatoria: ¿una salida distinta?”, Enfoque Derecho, Lima, 19/6/2020.

2019

  • Keynote speech “International Arbitration in Spain: Present Status and Future Challenges”, CMS Annual Dispute Resolution Practice Meeting, Madrid, 15/11/2019.
  • Panel discussion “El control constitucional de los laudos arbitrales”, First International Peruvian-Spanish Conference, Peruvian Institute of Aribtration, Lima, 7/11/2019.
  • Panel discussion “Arbitral Parents: Managing Parenthood in the Context of an International Practice”, Arbitral Women, DLA Piper, Milan, 30/10/2019.
  • Address “Towards a Decade of Teaching and Research at IE Law School”, IE Law School Faculty Annual Meeting, Madrid, 30/9/2019.
  • Lecture “Arbitrato e ordine pubblico”, VI Rapporto annuale sull’arbitrato, Associazione Bancaria Italiana / Corte Nazionale Arbitrale, Rome, 25/6/2019.
  • Keynote speech “Eficiencia y fe en el derecho”, XII CEA -40 Meeting, Spanish Arbitration Club, Madrid, 16/6/2019.
  • Lecture “El arbitraje internacional como foro natural para resolver disputas entre empresas chinas y españolas”, meeting between the Spanish Chamber of Commerce and CIETAC, Madrid, 8/5/2019.
  • Panel discussion “Financiación de terceros y asignación de costas en el arbitraje: ¿qué puedo recuperar y qué no?”, UFM Madrid / Moot Madrid, 2/4/2019.

2018

  • Lecture “Justicia o burocracia: dos décadas de reformas en materia de Justicia”, Spanish Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, 13/12/2018.
  • Panel discussion “Convenio de La Haya sobre acuerdos de elección de foro y Convenio de Nueva York: ¿aliados o enemigos?”, 5th meeting of international chapters of the Spanish Arbitration Club, Villa Aurelia, Rome, 5/10/2018.
  • Panel discussion “Arbitration of Corporate Disputes”, II Mexican Arbitration Day, CCI, Mexico City, 22/6/2018.
  • Panel discussion “Lodi arbitrali, soft law: e tendenze civilistiche?”, University of Bologna, 16/32018.
  • Lecture “La riforma processuale civile spagnola: tra la ragione e la forza”, University of Pavia, 14/3/2018.
  • Lecture “L’accesso alla Corte suprema e al Tribunale costituzionale in Spagna”, University of Florence, 13/3/2018.

2017

  • Lecture “La reforma procesal civil española: entre la realidad y el deseo”, Asociación Nacional de Magistrados, Buenos Aires, 22/2/2017.
  • Panel discussion “Arbitraje y Derecho sustantivo”, UESAN, Lima, 25/4/2017.
  • Lecture “Expert Determination in M&A Disputes”, IE-Pérez-Llorca Chair of Commercial Law, Akerman, Miami, 18/4/2017.
  • Lecture “Let the Witness Speak: Orality and Immediacy in Int’l Arbitration”, Harvard Law School, 7/4/2017.
  • Seminar on corruption and international arbitration, ICC-YAF, Bogota, 8/3/2017.
  • Lecture “Contrato alieno y arbitraje internacional”, Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico City, 7/2/2017.

2016

  • Lecture “Cortocircuitos jurídicos: el contrato alieno”, Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, 24/10/2016.
  • Course “International Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution”, Center for the Administration of Justice, Florida International University, April-May 2016.
  • Course “Historia y principios fundamentales del arbitraje internacional”, master’s degree in international arbitration, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala, January 2016.

2015

  • Panel discussion “The Unspoken Rules in Modern Arbitration”, Miami International Arbitration Society and FIU College of Law, Miami, 4/11/2015.
  • Lecture “International Arbitration: A Principled Order”, 17th Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference, Washington, D.C., 3/1/2015.

2014

  • Participation in the ICC conference “The New World Order of Economic Relations in the Light of Arbitral Jurisprudence”, Beaune (France), 27/9/2014.
  • Panel discussion Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), House of America-US Embassy in Spain, 26/9/2014.
  • Lecture “Past, present and future of the Spanish last resort appeals”, Comparative Research on Supreme Courts, Beijing, 13/4/2014.
  • Lecture “El arbitraje international como orden jurídico espontáneo”, with Huerta de Soto, S., Madrid, 3/12/2014.
  • Panel discussion “La nueva Oficina judicial”, Segovia, 13/6/2014.

2013

  • Lecture “Contratto alieno, arbitrato, diritto europeo dei contratti”, Scuola Superiore dell’Avvocatura, Milan, 19/5/2013.
  • Lecture “L’autonomia privata nel processo civile: i contratti di composizione delle liti”, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, 13/3/2013.
  • Lecture “Contratto alieno e arbitrato internazionale”, Spanish Royal College in Bologna, 11/3/2013.

2012

  • Panel discussion “Facultades y responsabilidad de los árbitros en la definición del objeto del arbitraje”, 2nd meeting of international chapters of the Spanish Arbitration Club, Ciudad de México, 8/11/2012.
  • Lecture “Derecho internacional y arbitraje de inversiones”, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, 6/11/2012.
  • Panel discussion “Justicia civil: retos de una legislatura”, Segovia, 19/10/2012.