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Experts Speak On Latin America

Lawyers, economists and diplomats
will focus on "Foreign Investment in
Latin America: Past Policies and Future
Trends" in a symposium at the University
of Virginia School of Law.

The symposium, March 13-14, is
sponsored by the University's John
Bassett Moore Society of International
Law and will be the regional meeting of
the American Society of International
Law.

March 13, beginning at 10:30 a.m., a
panel will discuss "The Background of
Foreign Investment in Latin America,"
raising such issues as the need for judicial
security for multi-national corporations in
Latin America and the importance of foreign
aid and investment to Latin American companies.
Speakers will be Tomislavo Dabinovic,
member of a leading law firm in Buenos Aires.
Argentina; Enrique V. , president of the
Latin American Institute of Social and
Economic Planning and former president of the
Central Bank of Uruguay, and William D.
Rogers, member of the Washington law firm of
Arnold and Porter.

Commentators for the first panel will be
Manuel R. Angulo. Lecturer at the University's
law school and member of Curtis, Mallet Provost,
Colt and Mosle, a New York law firm
active in South America, and Stephen
Schwebel, executive vice-president and director
of the American Society of International Law
and author of numerous articles on international
law.

That afternoon beginning at 2:30, a second
panel will discuss "Legal Issues Raised by
Recent Property Takings in Latin America."
Speakers will be Carlos Gibson, minister
counselor of Peru whose government recently
took over control of International Petroleum
Co., a matter of dispute between the United
States' and Peruvian governments; John K.
Oldfield, general counsel for ESSO. Interamerican,
Inc., and Domingo Santa Maria,
ambassador to the United States from Chile and
former Chilean minister of economy. Chile is in
the process of buying up the controlling stock
of the Anaconda Copper corporation.

Commentators for the second panel will be
Mark Feldman, assistant legal adviser for
inter-American affairs. United States Department
of State; Monroe Leigh, lecturer at the
University's law school and vice-president of
the American Society of International Law, and
Burns Weston, professor of law at the
University of Iowa Law School.

On March 14 beginning at 10 a.m., a round
table discussion will focus on "The Future of
Foreign Investment in Latin America" concentrating
on such areas as the need for external
financing and the role of claims agencies.
Participants will be Gordon A. Christenson,
associate professor of law at the University of
Oklahoma; Martin Domke, adjunct professor of
law at New York University and a world renowned
expert in claims settlement and
arbitration; Sidney Friedberg, commissioner of
the United States Foreign Claims Settlement
Commission; Joe Grunwald, director of economic
and social development studies at Brookings
Institute.

Also, Aleixandre , executive director
and Brazilian representative to the International
Monetary Fund: Covey Oliver, former
assistant secretary of state for inter-American
affairs and United States coordinator for the
Alliance for Progress and now professor of law
at the University of Pennsylvania, and Paul C.
, staff attorney for the International Bank
for Reconstruction and Development.

Members of the University's law faculty will
moderate the discussions which will be held in
the east hall of the law school. Selected
proceedings of the symposium will be published
in the Virginia Journal of International Law.