Updated December 2014 1 EDGARDO MUÑOZ PHD. (SWITZERLAND), LL.M. (ENGLAND), DEUF (FRANCE), ATTORNEY AT LAW (ADMITTED IN MEXICO) WORKING LANGUAGES: SPANISH, ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND BASIC PORTUGUESE EMAIL: edgardo.munoz@internationalprivatelaw.com PROFILE Professional practice, teaching and research interests on international and comparative law and arbitration, contracts law, intellectual property law, sports law and investment law. EDUCATION DOCTOR OF LAWS DEGREE (PHD) SUMMA CUM LAUDE UNIVERSITÄT BASEL, SWITZERLAND (2010) MASTER OF LAWS (LL.M.) BERKELEY LAW SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, USA (EXPECTED 2015) Academic Merit Scholarship MASTER OF LAWS THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND (2005) International Postgraduate Scholarship LAW DEGREE (and admitted lawyer 2004) UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA, MÉXICO (2004) Academic Excellence Award 2004, Overall Grade 9.5 / 10 UNIVERSITY DEGREE OF LAW STUDIES (BAC+3) UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MOULIN LYON III, FRANCE (2003) EXPERIENCE MAYO 2014 TO PRESENT FULL TENURE PROFESSOR PANAMERICANA UNIVERSITY, GUADALAJARA, MEXICO Chair of the Academy of International Law Courses: International Business Law, IP and Arbitration, Comparative Law APRIL 2014 TO PRESENT NOVEMBER 2010- MAY 2014 FALL 2013 COURSE LEADER SWISS INTERNATIONAL LAW SCHOOL, BASEL, SWITZERLAND LL.M. International Commercial Law and Dispute Resolution LENZ & STAEHELIN, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY AT LAW International arbitration, sports law and IP law practice group. VISITING SCHOLAR DESIGNATION BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL, NEW YORK Faculty sponsor Prof. Alejandro Garro Research on Latin-American contracts law and arbitration. OCTOBER 2010- MARCH 2011 JULY 2010- MARCH 2011 APRIL 2008- SEPTEMBER 2010 DECEMBER 2005- FEBRUARY 2008 RESEARCH ASSOCIATE CENTRE DE DROIT COMPARÉ, EUROPÉEN ET INTERNATIONAL (CDEI) UNIVERSITÉ DE LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND Research on arbitration and commercial contracts. ADMINISTRATIVE AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATE MASTER IN INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE SETTLEMENT (MIDS) UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE- THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE, SWITZERLAND Preparation of reading materials for dispute resolution courses. GLOBAL SALES LAW PROJECT- UNIVERSITÄT BASEL, SWITZERLAND (SUPPORTED BY UNCITRAL) Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Schwenzer LL.M Comparative analysis of sales and contract statutes, case law and clauses around the world. GAA, GUADALAJARA, MEXICO ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY AT LAW Legal corporate lawyers. Attorney in the international practice group.
Updated December 2014 2 JANUARY 2006- MARCH 2008 ADJUNCT LAW LECTURER OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW, INT. COMMERCIAL LAW, IP LAW. UNIVERSIDAD PANAMERICANA, FACULTY OF LAW, CAMPUS GUADALAJARA, MEXICO OTHER AWARDS FULL SCHOLARSHIP DOCTORAL PROGRAM 2008 (DECLINED) Granted by Government of CANADA Awards Program MEXICO. ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP NOVEMBER 2014- TO PRESENT BUDDY AT YOUNG ICCA - INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION Mentoring Program APRIL 2011- DECEMBER 2014 APRIL 2011- MARCH 2013 CHAIR OF THE INTERNATIONAL LIAISON PROJECT OF THE WILLEM C VIS MOOT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Represents the MAA as its NGO delegate before the different UNCITRAL Working Groups. VICE-PRESIDENT MOOT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moots of Vienna and Hong Kong. INTERNSHIPS JULY- AUGUST 2009 (2 MOTHS) JUN 2003 (1 MONTH) INTERNATIONAL COURT OF ARBITRATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, PARIS, FRANCE Intern. Scrutiny of arbitral awards and administration of arbitration cases. HENNESSY BOWIE & CO. SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM Solicitors and Notaries Intern. Study and assistance in property transactions. Preparation of court actions. COURSES WIPO SUMMER SCHOOL ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (2010) WIPO Headquarters, Geneva; July 5 to 16, 2010 (50 hours). INTRODUCTION TO LAW, ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS (2010) Prof. Robert D. Cooter, UC Berkeley School of Law The Gerzensee Study Center- A Foundation of the Swiss National Bank (15 hours). UNIVERSITÉ FRANÇOIS RABELAIS, TOURS, FRANCE (2003) SOCRATES INTENSIVE PROGRAMME Certificate Seminars included: Trade issues, the status of developing countries in WTO, arbitration (50 hours). WORKSHOPS WIPO ADVANCED WORKSHOP ON DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE RESOLUTION, GENEVA (2011) Overview of precedent and practice (16 hours) PACE UNIVERSITY NY & UNIVERSITÄT VIENNA, VIENNA, AUSTRIA (2004) GIA I. Certificate Seminar included: Rapport building and avoiding mistakes in arbitrations. Trained by Martin Hunter (8 hours). ONLINE COURSES ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION PROCEDURE UNDER THE WIPO RULES (2010) WIPO Worldwide Academy. Tutor Sophie Lamb (50 hours) MOOT COURT COMPETITIONS STUDENT PARTICIPANT 2004 The Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Vienna, Austria. INVITED ARBITRATOR AND/OR COACH AT THE FOLLOWING MOOTS: Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Vienna (Since 2006). FDi Moot organized by Centre of International Legal Studies in Austria, Suffolk University Law School and Perpperdine University Law School (Since 2008). Mexico City Arbitration Center Moot (2007, 2008 and 2013). MEMBERSHIPS Asociación Latinoamericana de Arbitraje ALArb (since 2011).
Updated December 2014 3 Club Español del Arbitraje, Miembro CEA 40 (since 2011). ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (since 2009). Swiss Arbitration Association below 40. Alumni Association of the the Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Vienna, Austria (since 2006). INTEREST NATIONALITY AND RESIDENCE Sports, jogging, Latin America literature and history. Mexican National and Resident.
Updated December 2014 4 PUBLICATIONS JOURNAL EDITOR - Latin-American Journal of International Trade Law, published by the Faculty of Law of Mexico s National Autonomous University (June 2012 to present), ISSN: 2007-7440. - Revista Cuadernos de la Maestria en Derecho, published by Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Bogotá, Colombia (March 2011 to present), ISSN No. 224841-16. - Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration, published by the Moot Alumni Association of the Willem C. Vis Moot of International Commercial Arbitration (June 2009 to 2012), ISSN: 1439-9741. COMMENTARY EDITOR - Schlechtriem & Schwenzer: Comentario sobre la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Contratos de Compraventa Internacional de Mercaderías, dirección con Ingeborg Schwenzer, Thomson Aranzadi, The Global Law Collection, Pamplona (2011) pages 2500, ISBN: 978-84-9903-761-5. COMMENTARY CONTRIBUTOR - Secciones Comparativas Iberoamericanas a los Artículos 1-6, 7-13, 14-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-44, 45-52, 53-60, 61-65, 66-70, 71-73, 74-77, 78, 79-80, 81-84 in Schlechtriem & Schwenzer Comentario sobre la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Contratos de Compraventa Internacional de Mercaderías, Ingeborg Schwenzer y Edgardo Muñoz directores, Thomson Aranzadi, The Global Law Collection, Pamplona (2011) pages 2500, ISBN: 978-84-9903-761-5. BOOKS - El Derecho de los Contratos y de la Compraventa en Ibero-America, Tirant-lo-Blanche, Mexico D.F. (2014), pages 520. - Modern Law of Contracts and Sales in Latin-America, Spain and Portugal, Eleven International Publishing (Boom uitgevers Den Haag), The Hague (2011), pages 560, ISBN 978 94 90947 03 3. CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIVE WORKS - Monismo y dualismo de las leyes de arbitraje: Son todas ellas dualistas? (co-authored with Xavier Favre-Bulle), in: Arbitraje Internacional, Pasado, Presente y Futuro, Libro Homenaje a Bernardo Cremades e Yves Derains, Ed. Carlos Alberto Soto Coaguila y Delia Revoredo Marsano de Mur, Instituto Peruano de Arbitraje, Lima 2013, 1437-1457, ISBN13:E000020004318. - Brazil's adhesion to the CISG consequences for trade in Latin America and the world (China) (co-authored with Luiz Gustavo Meira Moser), in: Globalization versus Regionalization: 4th Annual MAA Schlechtriem CISG Conference, Ed. Ingeborg Schwenzer & Lisa Spagnolo. The Netherlands: Eleven International Publishing, 2013, 79-96, ISBN 978 94 6236 066 2. - The Good Faith Principle in Ibero-American B2B Contract Law, in: Büchler, Andrea / Müller-Chen, Markus (Hrsg.), Festschrift für Ingeborg Schwenzer zum 60. Geburtstag, Sta mpfli, Bern 2011, S. 1325-1334, ISBN 978-3-7272-2956-5. JOURNAL ARTICLES - How Urgent shall an Emergency Be? The Standards Required to Grant Urgent Relief by Emergency Arbitrators, Yearbook on International Arbitration, Vol. IV forthcoming Dec. 2014, Intersentia-Dike. - Las reglas clásicas sobre la formación del contrato en los derechos internos Ibero- Americanos (2013), Cuadernos de la Maestría en Derecho, Universidad Sergio Arboleda, No. 3, 91-117, ISSN No. 224841-16. - Desarrollos en material de medidas provisionales en arbitrajes internacionales con sede en Suiza (co-authored with Miguel Oural) (2013) Revista Internacional de Arbitraje, No. 18, 35-73, ISSN 1794-4252. - The 2012 Swiss Rules of International Arbitration More Efficiency and Effectiveness of Arbitration Proceedings (co-authored with Miguel Oural) (2013) Latin American Journal of International Trade Law, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 441-455, ISSN: 2007-7440.
Updated December 2014 5 - A Adesão do Brasil à CISG - Consequências para o Comércio na China e América Latina (co-authored with Luiz Gustavo Meira Moser) (2012) Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem, No. 34, 52-71 (in Portuguese), ISSN 1806-809X. - Medidas provisionales en arbitrajes internacionales con sede en Suiza (co-authored with Miguel Oural) (2011) Spanish Arbitration Review, ISSN 1888-4377, No. 12, 77-92. - Right to withhold performance under Ibero-American Law (2010) Cuadernos de la Maestria en Derecho, Universidad Sergio Arboleda, No. 1, 379-393, ISSN No. 224841-16. - Impossibility, Hardship and Exemption under Ibero-American Contract Law (2010) The Vindobona Journal, No. 14, 175-192, ISSN: 1439-9741. - In defence of the CISG (co-authored with Christopher Kee) (2009) Deakin Law Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, 99-123, ISSN: 1321-3660. - Alternative dispute resolution for E-commerce (2006) The Vindobona Journal, No. 10, 53-66, ISSN: 1439-9741. CASE COMMENTARIES - Independence and Impartiality of Arbitrators. Challenge of Arbitrator. Swiss Federal Court. J. October 29th, 2010. Alejandro Valverde Belmonte v. Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (CONI) and other (2012) (co-authored with Luiz Gustavo Meira Moser), Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem, No. 34, 129-163, ISSN 1806-809X.. NOTES - The Legal Construction of Racial Discrimination in Mexico- Celebrating 200 years of Independence? Mexican Law Review (2010), Vol. II, No 2, 109-124. REVIEWS - The Swiss International Law School s LL.M. In International Commercial Law And Dispute Resolution: A Fascinating Journey towards the Global Lawyer, Yearbook on International Arbitration, Vol. IV forthcoming Dec. 2014, Intersentia-Dike. - I. Schwenzer, P. Hachem y C. Kee, Global Sales and Contract Law, Reseña de libros en (2012) Spanish Arbitration Review, No. 15, 211-214, ISSN 1888-4377. PREFACE - A Message from the MAA Moot Alumni Association (co-authored with Arno Eisen and Pedro Martini), in Louise Barrington, Napoleão Casado Filho and Claudio Finkelstein (eds), The Danubia Files: Award Writing Lessons from the Vis Moot, 2013, Outskirts Press, ISNB 978-1478711797 TRANSLATIONS Spanish translator of the CISG Advisory Council OPINIONS: - No. 6 Calculation of Damages under CISG Article 74 - No. 8 Calculation of Damages under CISG Articles 75 & 76. ENGAGEMENTS AS SPEAKER - Colaboración y Asistencia Judicial en el Arbitraje Comercial - Instituto de la Judicatura Federal-Escuela Judicial de México (DF, Mexico 28-29 May 2014). Presentation: Ejecución del acuerdo arbitral. - El procedimiento arbitral: aspectos prácticos ICC Mexico Young Arbitrators Group (Guadalajara, Mexico 21 May 2014) Presentation: La práctica de la prueba, la audiencia probatoria y el laudo arbitral. - United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods in Brazil (Curitiba, Brazil 19-20 March 2014) Presentation: Seller s obligations I: Delivery. Transfer of title. Documents. - Contemporary International Arbitration in Latin America - Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration - Columbia Law School (New York 7 November 2013) Presentation: Interim Measures of Protection in Recent Mexican Arbitration Practice. - Mexico s Arbitration Forum Dabate - Instituto Mexicano de Arbitraje (Mexico 24 October 2013)
Updated December 2014 6 Table III: Solución de conflictos en contratos de ejecución continua. - Conference within the Final Rounds of the Annual Moot Competition of Mexico City Arbitration Center (Mexico City 1 February 2013). Presentation: The application of the CISG in international commercial arbitration. - The 2 Annual Conference of the CentralAmerican Arbitration Centres (San Salvador 21-22 November 2012) Presentation: The application of lex mercatoria as substantive law of international arbitration. - The ICC Young Arbitration Forum (San Salvador 23 November 2012) Presentation: Constitutional remedies against arbitral awards. - The Alpine Seminar by the Club Español del Arbitraje and ASA below 40 (6-7 October 2012) Discussion leader: Appointment of a secretary of the arbitral tribunal and addressing confidentiality. - The Mexican Academy of Private International and Comparative Law Summer Session (August 2012 Mexico City) Book Presentation: Schlectriem & Schwenzer: Comentario sobre la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Contratos de Compraventa Internacional de Mercaderías. - The Arbitration Committee of the Mexican Bar - Summer Session (August 2012 Mexico City) Presentation: El Nuevo Reglamento Suizo de Arbitraje. - The Annual MAA Peter Schlechtriem CISG Conference: Globalization versus Regionalization Conference in Honour of Peter Schlechtriem (1933-2007) (18 March 2012 Hong Kong) Brazil's adhesion to the CISG consequences for trade in Latin America and the world (China). - Vis Moot School Switzerland Zurich University Law School (October 2011) CISG Lesson 1 and 2: Scope of Application, Formation of Contracts, Seller s obligations. - Primera Conferencia de Arbitraje Internacional Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina (23 September 2008) Presentation: Consecuencias de la reforma de 1993 a la Ley de Arbitraje Comercial de México. - The Fifth International Forum on Online Dispute Resolution, United Kingdom (April 2007) Presentation: Internet Conflict of Laws: A Space of Opportunities for ODR. OTHER FUNCTIONS OF REPRESENTATION - International Working Group Participation as NGO delegate UNCITRAL Working Group II on Investment Arbitration, United Nations Headquarters. New York, USA, 5-8 February 2012. - Chairman of the Spanish Translation Working Group of the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration 2012 - ITC (UN-WTO) Pro-Bono Committee on International Model Contracts for Exporting SMEs Plenary meeting session, Geneva, Switzerland, 21-22 April 2009. - Moot Case Design and Drafting for Mexico's Arbitration Centre (CAM) Moot case in Spanish for CAM s XII Inter-University Arbitration Moot Competition.