Writing is as important for the discipline of an academic profession as is reading.But they are stages radically different, if not even opposed within the rhythm of academic life. A day that starts with going through bibliography, with checking sources or looking for the texts referred to by sources, or with reading texts which inevitably catch your attention, is a day which is lost for writing. Receptivity towards something new ...

I believe in clarity, simplicity and consistency, accurate and complete documentary research, and in the interdisciplinary analysis, as well as comparative law perspective, of legal concepts, doctrines and institutions. Keywords:

[F]or whom do we motivate the arbitral awards? To explain to the claimant why he won? To explain to the respondent why he lost? To protect the arbitral award against the risk of being annulled or not being enforced, by considering the mentality of the judges in front of which it will be brought? To create doctrine of private international law or international commercial law? To write good legal literature, with which to be associated o...

For a lawyer, the word is the scalpel with which he or she operates. A scalpel of a surgeon which is blunt, imprecise or too large can hurt. Likewise, the word of the legal practitioner must be an instrument of precision, which goes straight to the target, without useless deviations.

I belong to those who believe that all words, said or written, trigger the moral responsibility of the author. The words come from our inner writing and are meant to be printed in the mind of the reader. (…) The conclusion belongs to the reader, but exposing the reasoning is in the hands of the author.