The Round Table “Changing circumstances in dispute resolution” will take place on February 6th, in Brussels, which will be attended by Professor Maria de Lurdes Vargas.
The doctrine of hardship, which can result in the termination or even the adaptation of contracts in case of a later change of the circumstances which existed at the time of their conclusion, has been recently codified in the new Belgian Civil Code. Yet it raises multiples questions and represents a real challenge for dispute resolution practitioners and arbitral institutions alike.
The present round table therefore aims at addressing these questions by drawing from the experience of practitioners from Belgium and other jurisdictions, such as Portugal or France, where the change of circumstances has been known and applied for a longer time.