Third Reunion of the Ravenna Summer School

The third reunion of the Ravenna Summer School on Cross-Border Litigation and International Arbitration will take place on 19-20 November 2026 at Palazzo Malvezzi, Via Zamboni 22, Bologna, Italy. The event is open to all, free of charge, and will be held both in person and online. Registration is available by email at micheleangelo.lupoi@unibo.it.

The programme will open on 19 November with a keynote speech by Antonio Leandro on The ‘Appropriateness Judgment Rule’ in International Commercial Arbitration, followed by a session of presentations by young researchers. The first session, entitled Rules of Cross-Border Jurisdiction in Times of Conflicts and Growing Unilateralism, will feature contributions by Valentín Cáceres and Nuria Ferrero, Sanctions as a Jurisdictional Connecting Factor? Cross-Border Jurisdiction in Times of Geopolitical Conflict; Maria Targosz-Gajewska, Trade Union Challenges in Cross-Border Litigation in an Age of Unilateralism; and Jorge Puig-La Calle, Delay as an Expression of European Legal Unilateralism: Frictions and Incompatibilities.

On 20 November, the programme will resume with a keynote speech by Soterios Loizou, followed by a further session of young researchers’ presentations. The session on Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards will include contributions by Joanna Kruk, Arbitrating in the Shadow of Sanctions – The Dichotomy of Jurisdiction and Satisfaction under EU Law; Selma Heni, Two Public Policies, One Convention? Sanctions Instruments and the Stages of Arbitral Enforcement; Caterina Romano, From the Arbitral Award to the Digital Wallet: Recognition and Execution against Crypto-Assets; Carmela Pia Liporace, Beyond the Original: Digital Arbitral Awards, the New York Convention and the Case for Legal Interoperability; and Özge Demirdelen, From Adjudication to Enforcement in FIDIC Blue-Green Book Projects through the Lens of Persero.

The afternoon programme will include the presentation by Ornella Feraci of the book Contenzioso climatico e diritto internazionale privato dell’Unione europea, with the participation of the author, Marco Farina and Michele Angelo Lupoi, followed by a round table on The Reality of an International Commercial Court in Italy, with Salvatore Zannino and Michele Angelo Lupoi, and discussions by Edoardo Piermattei and Edith Nordmann.

Further information, including the full programme, is available here.