We are pleased to invite our members to the General Assembly of CEPANI, which will take place on June 4 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm in the Horta room at FEB, Brussels. This event will be an opportunity to review the past year’s activities and discuss future prospects.
On this occasion, the CEPANI Academic Prize 2025 will be awarded by the Chair of the Jury, Prof. Eric De Brabandere.
As per tradition, this General Assembly will be followed at 5:00 pm by a keynote presentation. This year, we have the pleasure and honor of welcoming Mr. Constantine Partasides KC, Founding Partner of Three Crowns LLP, who will speak on the theme: “The Sphinx Arbitrator: why arbitrator silence is not a virtue.”
This keynote will offer a meditation on why arbitrators should not fear expressing preliminary views on the merits of a dispute before their awards, and why it would benefit the arbitration process if they did. The speaker will consider the risks of challenges to arbitrators for expressing preliminary views on the merits, what our process has to learn from other fora in which it is common for judges to give indications of their direction of travel to assist the parties, and why the element of surprise that comes from an award that expresses a view that is unexpected is not a necessary ingredient of due process.
We have no doubt that many of you will wish to attend this presentation. You are also welcome to invite and register any person interested in arbitration and ADR, even if they are not a member of CEPANI. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session and a reception starting at 6:00 pm. For organizational reasons, we would be grateful if you could inform Emma Van Campenhoudt by email @ evc@cepani.be by 27 May 2026 if you plan to attend the AGM.