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Madrid, August 29, 2024 Honorable Villu Kõve Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Estonia Subject: Invitation to participate in the World Law Congress Dominican Republic 2025 4-6 May, 2025 Dear Justice Kõve, I am honored to contact you in my capacity as President of the World Jurists Association (WJA), a non- governmental organization in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC), which since 1963 has been dedicated to the promotion of the rule of law and the rule of law as the only alternative to the rule of force. Throughout its history, the World Jurists Association (WJA) has served as a free and open forum to cooperate in strengthening and expanding the rule of law and its institutions. As part of this mission, for more than 60 years, the WJA has been organizing every two years the World Law Congress (WLC), an international congress where jurists, authorities, but also civil society organizations and businesses discuss a wide range of current issues. The WJA will organize its XXIX World Law Congress in the Dominican Republic, from May 4 to 6, 2025. The World Law Congress brings together world leaders, including heads of state, authorities, supranational and national court judges, policy makers, academics, lawyers, activists and students, to discuss current issues in the format of multiple panel discussions on a variety of topics. At the congress, the World Peace & Liberty Award is presented to an outstanding figure for his or her contribution to the promotion of peace and freedom through law. It would be an honor to count on your participation as a prestigious speaker at the World Law Congress Dominican Republic 2025, which we are currently preparing. Your presence and participation, as a guest of honor, in the WLC would add great value to the program that is being developed, especially in the section on constitutional law that we are preparing, in which the speakers will be the Presidents of the Constitutional and Supreme Courts of the world. Please find attached the draft program for your information in case it would be of interest. We would be pleased to arrange a meeting with the WLF team developing the WLC 2025 Program to discuss more specifically your possible participation in the event. Trusting in your interest in the World Law Congress Dominican Republic 2025, we remain attentive to your kind response. Best regards, Javier Cremades President World Law Foundation & World Jurist Association 1629 K ST NW, Suite 300. Washington DC 20006. USA Jorge Juan 30, Planta 6ta. Madrid, 28001. SPAIN. Tel: +34 914 26 40 50 CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT  WORLD LAW CONGRESS Dominican Republic CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT THE ORGANIZERS “A world ruled by law, and not by force” has been the World Jurist Association’s mission since its founding in 1963. As a non-governmental organization with special consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council), the WJA was created to become a free and open forum for judges, lawyers, law professors and other professionals from around the world to cooperate in strengthening and expanding the Rule of Law and its institutions. Amongst its main activities are the organization of the biannual World Law Congress and the presentation of the World Peace & Liberty Award. As a result of the Madrid Declaration of 2019, the World Law Foundation was created as the executive arm to organize the main activities of the World Jurist Association. The Board of Trustees and the Advisory Board of the WLF are composed of prominent jurists and professionals, including former presidents and prime ministers, presidents of high courts, directors of prestigious institutions, lawyers, academics, and businesspeople. THE WORLD LAW CONGRESS The World Law Congress is a congress of congresses where different organizations and institutions hold their own panels, being the Biennial Congress of the WJA the main event. For two days, global leaders, including heads of State, authorities, justices from supranational and national high courts, policy makers, academics, lawyers, activists, and students, discuss a wide variety of current topics to which the legal community should propose solutions. The history of the World Law Congress is as extensive as the Association’s history. It began in 1963 in Athens, and has continued, almost unstoppable, every two years to this day. The WORLD LAW CONGRESS DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 2025 will be the 29th edition of this two-day event. On the first day, the World Law Congress 2025 will feature more than 400 speakers, presenters, and panelists from 70+ countries across the five continents who will discuss multiple thematic working sessions topics focusing on Peace Through Law, the original WJA motto. On the second day, the Closing Ceremony will be held at a landmark building in Santo Domingo. During this ceremony, the World Peace & Liberty Award 2025 will be bestowed to an international personality. The award has been previously presented to Sir Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, René Cassin, Felipe VI King of Spain, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Colombian society in hands of its then President Ivan Duque, US civil rights leader Andrew Young and the European Commission presented to its President, Ursula von der Leyen. Register at WORLD LAW CONGRESS https://worldlawcongress.com/ Dominican Republic 2  CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT WORLD LAW CONGRESS 2025 May 4 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM INTERFAITH INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE - Side Event - p. 4 6:00 PM WELCOMING COCKTAIL p. 4 May 5 8:30 AM 5:30 PM XXIX WORLD LAW CONGRESS’ PANELS INDEX OF FORUMS No. 1 International Justice Forum p. 4 2 Human Rights & Freedom of Expression p. 5 3 Enviromental & Energy Rule of Law Forum p. 6 4 Digital Challenges: IA, Cybersecurity, Social Media & Data Protection p. 6 5 Electoral Era and Geopolitical Events p. 6 6 Constitutional Universal Principles p. 6 7 Rule of law in the legal field p. 8 8:00 PM PEACE THROUGH LAW GALA DINNER p. 9 May 6 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE XIX WORLD LAW CONGRESS p. 9 12:30 PM COCKTAIL RECEPTION / AWARDEES’ LUNCH p. 9 Register at WORLD LAW CONGRESS https://worldlawcongress.com/ Dominican Republic 3  WORLD LAW CONGRESS Dominican Republic CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT May 4, 2024 May 5, 2024 3:00 PM 5:00 PM 8:30 AM 5:30 PM INTERFAITH INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE XXIX WORLD LAW CONGRESS’ PANELS Panel 1 OPENING CEREMONY DIALOGUE AMONG REPRESENTATIVES OF THE THREE MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS Javier Cremades, Spain President of the World Jurist Association Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, Saudi Arabia Secretary General of the Muslim World League Carolina Mejía, Dominican Republic Mayor of Santo Domingo Baltazar Porras, Venezuela XVI Archbishop of Caracas INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE FORUM Panel 1 SUSTAINABLE MULTILATERALISM: CHALLENGES AND WELCOMING COCKTAIL OPPORTUNITIES IN 21ST CENTURY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 6:00 PM (Applicable registration and fee) CHAIR Antonio Herman Benjamin, Brazil Justice of the National High Court of Brazil (STJ), President GJIE PANELISTS Miodrag Đorđević, Slovenia Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Slovenia Peter Umeadi, Nigeria Emeritus Chief Judge of Anambra Ricardo Blanco Herrera, Chile President of the Supreme Court Zaza Tavadze, Georgia Former President of Constitutional Court of Georgia Panel 2 INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW José Igreja Matos, Portugal President of the International Association of Judges, World Law Foundation Trustee Ekaterina Trendafilova, Bulgaria President of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers. Former ICC Judge, President of the Pre-Trial Division Panel 3 RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT Esohe Ikponmwen, Nigeria Emeritus chief justice of Edo State Graciela Tagle, Argentina Liaison Judge of the International Hague Network of Judges Panel 4 INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT IN ONGOING INTERSTATE CONFLICTS Graciela Gatti, Uruguay President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals Register at WORLD LAW CONGRESS https://worldlawcongress.com/ Dominican Republic 4  CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT Manuel Breton, Spain Panel 5 President of Caritas Española PROTECTION OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE CO-CHAIRS Shimon Shetreet, Israel President, International Association of Judicial Independence and World Peace, Greenblatt Chair of Public and international Law , HUMAN RIGHTS & FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION Hebrew University Panel 9 Pascal Pichonnaz, Switzerland HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ERA OF TECHNOLOGICAL President, European law Institute ELI, University of Freiburg ADVANCEMENT: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES PANELISTS Erika Torregrosa, Spain John Thomas, United Kingdom Principal Chief Executive Officer en DIPLOCORP Former Chief Justice England and Wales Panel 10 Ellise Muir, Belgium DEMOCRACY AND MEDIA: EXPLORING THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN Head of the Department for International and European Law, Head FREE PRESS AND POLITICAL SYSTEMS of the Institute for European Law of the KU Leuven and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe Fabio Bertoni, USA General Counsel at The New Yorker Takis Tridimas, United Kingdom Professor of European Law at King’s College Panel 11 ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF REGIONAL AND Sophie Turenne, United Kingdom INTERNATIONAL MECHANISMS IN PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS Assistant Professor in Comparative Law; Fellow in Law at the University of Cambridge Alma Como, Albania Head of Public and International Relations Department of the Christiane Wendehorst, Austria Constitutional Court of the Republic of Albania Co-Head of the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law Scientific Director of the European Law Institute Amaka Ufodiama, Nigeria Deputy Chief Registrar, Probate Registry. Fryderick Zoll, Poland Proffessor at the Jagellonian University and Osnabrueck University Panel 12 ADDRESSING CHALLENGES IN ENSURING DIGITAL FREEDOM OF Kim Lane Scheppele, USA SPEECH Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs Arta Vorpsi, Albania Professor of Constitutional Law, Tirana University Panel 6 DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS AGAINST JUDGES Panel 13 WOMEN'S ROLE IN THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE RULE OF LAW Petr Angyalossy, Czech Republic President of the Supreme Court CHAIR Hilarie Bass, USA Panel 7 President of the Bass Institute for Diversity and Inclusion INDEPENDENCE OF THE JUDICIARY Panel 14 CHAIR INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF CHILDREN Sujata Manohar, India Judge of the Supreme Court (1994-99), member of the National CHAIR Human Rights Commission (2000-2004) Carolina Marín Pedreño, Spain Vice President of the International Academy of Family Lawyers PANELISTS (IAFL). Former President of Westminster and Holborn Law Society Edgardo Cáceres, Honduras Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras (1994- PANELISTS 2002) Rachel Kelsey, United Kindom President of the International Academy of Family Lawyers Panel 8 Daniela Horvitz, Chile EXPLORING SHARED VALUES AND PROMOTING UNDERSTANDING President of the UIA Family Commission, former President of ACROSS RELIGUIOUS TRADITIONS AIJUDEFA Register at WORLD LAW CONGRESS https://worldlawcongress.com/ Dominican Republic 5  CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT Panel 15 Partner at Cascione Advogados SPORT: LEGAL PERSPECTIVE AND SOCIAL IMPACT PANELISTS CHAIR Milagros de Camps, Dominican Republic Elisabeth Cassin, France Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources World Law Foundation Trustee Panel 16 INDIGENOUS LAW CHALLENGES CHAIR Borys Babin, Ukraine Ukraine Presidential representative in Crimea (2017-2018), Ad hoc DIGITAL CHALLENGES: IA, CYBERSECURITY, SOCIAL expert OSCE and Minority Rights Group International MEDIA & DATA PROTECTION PANELISTS Panel 20 SECURING THE FUTURE: EXPLORING CONTEMPORARY Oliver Loode, Estonia DIMENSIONS OF DEFENSE, SECURITY, AND CYBER GOVERNANCE Human Rights activist, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII, 2014–2016) Kristjan Verbič, Slovenia President VZMD - PanSlovenian Investors' & Stakeholders' ENVIROMENTAL & ENERGY RULE OF LAW FORUM Association Panel 17 Panel 21 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW IN THE ERA OF ENERGY TRANSITION: LEGAL IMPLICATIONS AND ETHICAL DISPUTES OF ARTIFICIAL ADDRESSING LEGAL OPPORTUNITIES INTELLIGENCE IN TODAY'S SOCIETY: STEERING THE COMPLEXITIES OF AI GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY CHAIR Kari Kuusiniemi, Finland Cesar Landa, Peru President of the Supreme Administrative Court. Trustee of the President of the Constitutional Court (2006-2008), Trustee of the World Law Foundation World Law Foundation, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2022) PANELISTS Panel 22 Christina Voigt, Norway MITIGATING THE RISK OF JUDICIAL BIAS IN AI UTILIZATION Professor at the University of Oslo and Chair, IUCN-WCEL Don Bivens, USA Lucio Ghia, Italy Partner at Don Bivens PLLC President of the WJA (1995-1997) Panel 23 Pere Pastor Vilanova, Andorra 5G PRIVACY AND CYBERSECURITY Judge and President of Section III of the European Court of Human Rights Milan Kristof, Luxembourg Référendaire European Court of Justice Panel 18 CHALLENGES TO SUSTAINABILITY IN THE AMERICAS Panel 24 OVERREGULATION OR DEREGULATION IN THE DIGITAL SECTOR? Luiz Claudio Allemand, Brazil President of the Arbitration Chamber of the Federation of Industries Marcelo Montero, Chile of Espírito Santo Partner at Budais Abogados Carrie Gaard, Argentina Founder of Carrie Gaard Bureau, Green Business Assistance & ECO ELECTORAL ERA AND GEOPOLITICAL EVENTS Diplomacy Panel 25 Sergio de Andréa, Brazil ASSESSMENTS OF ELECTORAL RULES OF 2024 Brazilian Academy of Legal Literature CHAIR Panel 19 Irakli Samkharadze, Georgia CLIMATE CHANGE, THE PARIS AGREEMENT AND THE CURRENT Director European Integration Research Centre SCENARIO OF ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS FOR DECARBONIZATION IN DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS Diego Valadés, Mexico Emeritus Researcher at the Institute of Juridical Research of the CHAIR National Autonomous University of Mexico Rafael Fernando Feldmann, Brasil Register at WORLD LAW CONGRESS https://worldlawcongress.com/ Dominican Republic 6  CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT Panel 26 CHAIR PARADIGM SHIFT RESULTING FROM THE 2024 ELECTIONS Selin Esen, Turkey First Vice-President of the International Association of Rafael Heredia, México Constitutional Law Agent of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Federal District PANELISTS Selvete Gerxhaliu, Kosovo Judge of the Constitutional Court Arta Vorpsi, Albania Professor of Constitutional Law, Tirana University CONSTITUTIONAL UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES Gabriella Mangione, Italy Professor at the University of Insubria Panel 27 RULE OF LAW, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY Panel 29 ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY CO-CHAIRS Rainer Arnold, Germany CO-CHAIRS Professor at Regensburg University Stefanie Kisgen, Germany CEO bei Steinbeis School of International Business and Luca Mezzetti, Italy Entrepreneurship (SIBE) Dean of the Faculty of Law and amaskiLaw Professor at University of Bologna PANELISTS Ekaterina Trendafilova, Bulgaria PANELISTS President of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers. Former ICC Judge, Alejandro Amaya, Argentina President of the Pre-Trial Division Professor at the University of Buenos Aires Wolfgang Weiss, Germany Cristina Hermida del Llano, Spain Executive Director of Agrofert Germany GmbH Professor at Rey Juan Carlos University Elisabeth Lintl, Germany Vasco Pereira da Silva, Portugal Judge at the Superior Court of Justice (OLG) Nuremberg Profesor at the University of Lisbon Marieta Safta, Romania Bertrand Mathieu, France Law Professor at Titu Maiorescu University Profesor at University Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) Ancien Conseiller d'État Viktor Mushak, Ukraine Professor at the University of Shevchenko Valentina Colcelli, Italy CNR, Perugia/Firenze Panel 30 CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE IN A COMPARATIVE VIEW I Sokol Sadushi, Albania President of the Supreme Court CO-CHAIRS Holta Zacaj, Albania Cristina Titirișcă, Romania President of the Constitutional Court Assistant-Magistrate at the Constitutional Court Rainer Arnold, Germany Natalia Mushak, Ukraine Professor at Regensburg University National Aviation University PANELISTS Lorenza Violini, Italy Villu Köwe, Estonia Professor at the University of Milan President of the Supreme Court Marianella Ledesma, Peru Gresa Caka-Nimani, Kosovo President of the Constitutional Court (2020-2022) President of the Constitutional Cout Alan Bronfman, Chile Miroslaw Granat, Poland Professor of Constitutional Law and Parliamentary Law at the Judge of the Constitutional Court (2007-2016) Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Gheorghe Stan, Romania Panel 28 Judge of the Constitutional Court HUMAN DIGNITY Domnica Manole, Moldova Register at WORLD LAW CONGRESS https://worldlawcongress.com/ Dominican Republic 7  CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT Judge of the Constitutional Court. President of the Constitutional Panel 34 Court (2019-2023) M&A TRANSACTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CURRENT TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION Jolita Miliuviene, Lithuania Adviser to the President of the Constitutional Court CHAIR Brunno Morette, Brasil Partner at Cascione Advogados https://www.euractiv.com/section/europe-s-east/news/eu- braces-for-autumn-battles-with- PANELISTS budapest/?utm_source=Euractiv&utm_campaign=06af3900bb- Máximo Manuel Bergés Chez, Dominican Republic EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_03_15_11_14_COPY_09&utm_medium= Partner at Bergés Dreyfous Abogados email&utm_term=0_-c120410112- %5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5DindePanel 31 Panel 35 CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE IN A COMPARATIVE VIEW II GLOBAL LEGAL DYNAMICS: NAVIGATING CHANGE AND SEIZING OPPORTUNITIES IN A TRANSFORMATIVE ERA CO-CHAIRS Jean-Philippe Derosier, France Jin Huang, China Professor of Public Law, Center for Legal Research, University of Lille Vice President of the WJA, Vice President of China Law Rainer Arnold, Germany Panel 36 Professor at Regensburg University FINANCIAL TRENDS AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE IN INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION PANELISTS Tudorel Toader, Romania Jiankun Li, China Rector and Professor at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University. Assistant Professor of China University of Political Science and Law Minister of Justice (2017-2019) Moisés Castro Pizaña, México Marieta Safta, Romania Partner at Bufete Castro Pizaña Law Professor at Titu Maiorescu University Mathieu Disant, France Nicola Tegoni, Italy Professor at Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) Equity Partner, Co-Chair of the Italy Practice Group at Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller LLP Anna Rytel-Warzocha, Poland Professor at the University of Gdansk Panel 37 PERSONAL INJURIES: INTERNATIONAL APPROACH Germán Lopez Daza, Colombia Professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia Jeff Korek, USA Partner at Gersowitz Libo & Korek, P.C. Arta Vorpsi, Albania Professor of Constitutional Law, Tirana University Panel 38 MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN ARBITRATION Sokol Sadushi, Albania PROCEEDINGS President of the Supreme Court CHAIR RULE OF LAW IN THE LEGAL FIELD Hwang Cheol-Kyu, Republic of Korea WJA Board Member, Immediate Past President of the International Panel 32 Association of Prosecutors INTERSECTION OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTORS IN ECONOMIC PROGRESS Panel 39 RULE OF LAW: YOUTH VOICES SHAPING TOMORROW'S JUSTICE Ambiga Sreenevasan, Malasia Partner at Sreenevasan, Advocates & Solicitors Mauricio Junquera, México Partner at Junquera Legal Rafael García Millán, Spain Partner at Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo Panel 40 ADR AND THE RULE OF LAW Panel 33 STRESS MANAGEMENT AND SELF-AWARENESS IN THE LEGAL Alberto Preciado, Colombia PROFESSION WLF Trustee and President of Preciado Abogados CHAIR Roberto Whyte, Spain Trustee of the World Law Foundation Register at WORLD LAW CONGRESS https://worldlawcongress.com/ Dominican Republic 8  CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT Register at WORLD LAW CONGRESS https://worldlawcongress.com/ Dominican Republic 9 WORLD LAW CONGRESS Dominican Republic CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT May 5 08:00 PM PEACE THROUGH LAW GALA DINNER (Applicable registration and fee) May 6 09:30 AM – 12:00 PM (By invitation only) CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE XIX WORLD LAW CONGRESS Javier Cremades, Spain, President of the World Jurist Association PRESENTATION OF THE WORLD LAW PEACE & LIBERTY AWARD Laudatio Stephan Harbarth, Germany, President of the Federal Constitutional Court Acknowledgement Awardee Remarks Luis Abinader, President of the Dominican Republic H.M King Felipe VI of Spain, World Peace & Liberty Awardee 2019 (tbc) COCKTAIL RECEPTION / AWARDEES’ LUNCH 12:30 PM (By invitation only) Register at WORLD LAW CONGRESS https://worldlawcongress.com/ Dominican Republic 10  CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE Javier Cremades, Spain, President of the World Jurist Association Iván Duque, Colombia, lawyer, writer, and politician. President of Colombia (2018-2022) LOCAL COMMITTEE Milton Ray Guevara, Dominican Republic, World Law Foundation Trustee, Former President of the Constitutional Court (2011-2023) PROGRAM COMMITTEE María Juliana, Colombia, Co-founder I+D Foundation Diego Solana, Spain, attorney and International Advisor of the World Law Foundation Register at WORLD LAW CONGRESS https://worldlawcongress.com/ Dominican Republic 11 Saatja: Irene Esteban <[email protected]> Saaja: Info Teema: Villu Kõve - Invitation to participate in the World Law Congress Dominican Republic 2025 Dear Justice Kõve, I am contacting you on behalf of the President of the World Jurists Association (WJA<https://worldjurist.org/>), a non-governmental organization in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC), which since 1963 has been dedicated to the promotion of the rule of law and the rule of law as the only alternative to the rule of force. Throughout its history<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_9_oGlDi_4&feature=youtu.be>, the World Jurists Association (WJA) has served as a free and open forum to cooperate in strengthening and expanding the rule of law and its institutions. As part of this mission, for more than 60 years, the WJA has been organizing every two years the World Law Congress (WLC), an international congress where jurists, authorities, but also civil society organizations and businesses discuss a wide range of current issues. The WJA will organize its XXIX World Law Congress in the Dominican Republic, from May 4 to 6, 2025. It would be an honor to count on your participation as a prestigious speaker at the World Law Congress Dominican Republic 2025, which we are currently preparing. Your presence and participation, as a guest of honor, in the WLC would add great value to the program that is being developed, especially in the section on constitutional law that we are preparing, in which the speakers will be the Presidents of the Constitutional and Supreme Courts of the world. Please find attached the draft program for your information in case it would be of interest. We would be pleased to arrange a meeting with the WLF team developing the WLC 2025 Program to discuss more specifically your possible participation in the event. Trusting in your interest in the World Law Congress Dominican Republic 2025, we remain attentive to your kind response. Best regards, Irene Esteban World Jurist Association [cid:[email protected]]