EDUCATION
Law degree from the University of Madrid in 1968
Diploma in the Course on International Maritime Law, University of Madrid, 1965
Social Sciences in the Leon XIII Institute, Madrid 1963-1966
Political Science at the University of Madrid, 1966-1968
Fellowship in Commerce and Maritime Brokerage, “City of London College”, London,
1969-1970
Diploma in Maritime Law, “University College”, London, 1970-1971
FORENSIC EXPERIENCE
- Professional practice as a maritime lawyer since 1974, total 37 years
- Member of the Madrid Bar Association.
- Partner of the firm “Goñi, Alcántara & Co”., Madrid
- Founder and Director of the firm “Abogados Marítimos y Asociados” and, from 2000, of the firm “AMYA ABOGADOS” of Madrid.
- Advisor on Maritime Law of the Government of Spain
ARBITRAGE
- Former President of the “International Maritime Conciliation and Mediation (IMCAM) Panel “
- Partner-Founder of ARBITRAMAR
- Maritime Arbitrator in Madrid
- Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce of Madrid
- Arbitrator of the ICC, Paris
- Arbitrator of the “Chambre Arbitrale Maritime”, of Monaco
- Arbitrator of the “International Court of Arbitration for Marine and Inland
- Navigation “in Gdynia (Poland)
- Arbitrator of IMARCO, Spanish Association of Maritime Arbitration, Madrid
- Member of the “LONDON MARITIME ARBITRATORS ASSOCIATION”, London
- Former President of the MEDITERRANEAN MARITIME ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION, Genoa (Italy)
- Permanent Arbitrator of the Regional Center for Commercial Arbitration – El Cairo
- Member of the Arbitration Committee of the CCI, Paris
- Former President of the Spanish Association of Maritime Arbitration – IMARCO
- Member of G.G.C. ARBITRATION CENTER of Bahrain
- Member of the ICMA International Committee
- Arbitrator of the “China Maritime Arbitration Commission” (CMAC), Beijing / Shanghai
- Member of the Friends of Arbitration Club, Madrid
- Referee of CEAMAR (Montevideo)
- Arbitrator of the “Singapore International Arbitration Center” (SIAC)
- Arbitrator of the “Consolat de Mar” Court, Barcelona
- Arbitrator of the Maritime Arbitration Commission (MAC), Moscow
- Arbitrator of the Chamber of Commerce
- ICAM Referee
- Arbitrator of the European Arbitration Association (AEADE)
- Referee of the German Maritime Arbitration Association (GMAA)
- Arbitrator of the SIAC Emergency Panel, Singapore
- Referee of the Kuala Lumpur Regional Center for Arbitration, Malaysia
- Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce, Warsaw
- Referee of the Qatar International Center for Arbitration
- Arbitrator of the “Maritime Arbitration Commission” of the Chamber of Trade and Industry of Ukraine
- Arbitrator of CECOMAP, Republic of Panama
Other qualifications and functions in relationship with Maritime Law
- Ex-Executive Director of the International Maritime Committee (CMI)
- Full member of the “Comité Maritime International” (C.M.I.)
- President of the “International Maritime Conciliation and Mediation Panel”
- Former President of the Spanish Association of Maritime Law (AEDM)
- Liquidator of Breakdowns authorized in Madrid
- Full member of the “Association International des Dispacheurs” Europeenes “(A.I.D.E.), Antwerp, Counselor for Spain of the AIDE.
- President of the Spanish Association of Liquidators of Breakdowns, Madrid from 1993 to 1999
- Member of the “Institut du Droit des Transports”, Rouen
- Member of the Spanish Institute of Insurance Law, Madrid
- Member of the Environmental Law Committee, Bar Association from Madrid
- Full member of the Argentine Maritime Law Association, from August 1987
- Member of the “International Bar Association” (IBA), London.
- Full member of the Venezuelan Maritime Law Association, from January 1990
- Member of the Spanish Committee of Maritime Transport of the C.C.I., Paris
- President of the Ibero-American Institute of Maritime Law for the 1991-1994 period
- Member of the Governing Board of the Spanish Maritime Institute (I.M.E.)
- Honorary Member of the Panamanian Association of Maritime Law
- Honorary Member of the Maritime Law Association of the Republic Dominican
- Executive Member of the International Multimodal Transport Association (IMMTA)
- Former Vice-president for Spain of the Ibero-American Institute of Maritime Law
- Member of the Royal Spanish Naval League
- Founder of the MARLAW research workshop
- Founder of the “International Maritime Conciliation and Mediation Panel (IMCAM)
- Delegate for Spain of U.N. International Conventions
- Delegate of the IIDM for IMO MSC Committees and IMO Conventions
- President of several ISC and working groups for the WCC
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Professor of Maritime Law at the Spanish Maritime Institute, Madrid. (Maritime Business Course)
- Professor of Law and Maritime Insurance at the Study Center Commercial (CECO), Madrid
- Professor of Law and Maritime Insurance in the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Madrid
- Member of the Board of Advisers in European Affairs, Faculty of Law, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
- Professor “Honoris Causa” of the CDEP University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Professor of IPEC (Valencia)
- Professor of Maritime Law in the Master in the Practice of Law from the Carlos III University of Madrid
- Professor of Maritime Law at the Polytechnic University of Barcelona, Nautical School
- Professor of Maritime Law at the Polytechnic University of Barcelona, “Master in Law and Maritime Business and Port Management”
- Faculty of the International Master’s Degree in Maritime Administration and Port (online mode)
- Professor of Chartering and Maritime Transport of Goods at the University of Havana, April 2012
- “Twinning Turkey: Seminar – United Nations Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods “, taught through the General Management of the Merchant Navy (Spain) in Ankara and Istanbul 6-11 May 2012
- Teacher of internships for students through agreements with the Pontificia de Comillas University (Spanish Maritime Institute), the Carlos III University, Faculty of Law of the University of Deusto and Leonardo Da Vinci Program
- Professor Seminar on “Maritime Privileges and Mortgages” and “Insurance Marítimos “, in Universidad del Caribe, Panama, March 2013
- Visiting Professor Emeritus of Master’s courses in Maritime Law and Procesal-Marítimo, at the National University of Panama, since April 2013
PUBLICATIONS
- “Jurisprudence and foreign arbitral awards” – Yearbook of Law Maritime”. Vol. I, Ed. Karpos, S.A., 1981
- “Jurisprudence and foreign arbitral awards” – Yearbook of Law Maritime”. Vol. II, Ed. Karpos, S.A., 1982
- “The Hague-Visby Rules and their international background”. Magazine “MARINA MERCANTE” – National Company ELCANO – Madrid, April 1984
- “The Process of Unification of the Maritime Law at the end of the 20th Century” Magazine “REVISTA JURIDICA” PEMEX – Mexico, September / October 1990
- “Jurisdiction and Arbitration in the Hamburg Rules (I)”. Magazine “OPINION” – European Institute of Maritime Studies – November, 1991
- “Jurisdiction and Arbitration in the Hamburg Rules (II)”. Magazine “OPINION” – European Institute of Maritime Studies -December, 1991
- “The Hamburg Rules before its imminent entry into force: a updated valuation. “Magazine” RIGHT OF BUSINESS “- The Law, Madrid – December, 1991.
- “The Hamburg Rules before its imminent entry into force”. Magazine “JUDICIAL REVIEW” – PEMEX, Mexico – November / December, 1992
- “The accident of the AEGEAN SEA in La Coruña, the sea or the men?” – Magazine “AETINAPE” – Spanish Association of Nautical-Fishing Titles – March 1993
- “Stowaways on board” – Magazine “AETINAPE” – Spanish Association of Nautical-Fishing Certificates – November 1993
- “Maritime Privileges and Naval Mortgage.” The International Agreement of Geneva of May 1993 “- Magazine” RIGHT OF BUSINESS “- LA LAW, December, 1993
- “An international panel of maritime arbitrators?” – JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION, Geneva, December 1994
- “A dangerous precedent for Spanish fishing interests” – Magazine AETINAPE – July 1995
- “The recent EC Regulation on the Shipping Consortia: Obligations attaching to exemption “- IMTA Bulletin, Fall 1995
- “A Short First on the International Convention on Maritime Liens and Mortgages, 1993 “. Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce. Vol. 27 No. 2, April 1996
- “The Practitioner’s Responsibility in the General Pilotage Regulations” – PRACTICOS DE PUERTO – Year I, May 1996
- Article published in the Bulletin of the Argentine Association of Experts Naval on “The role of arbitration institutions in arbitration international maritime “. June 1996
- “The limit of liability and maritime agents” – International Law Review – LLP. Vol. 4, September 1996
- “Competition in port services for loading and unloading, stowage and desestiba “. TRANSPORTE XXI newspaper. Bilbao, November 1996
- “Summary of the Coverage granted by the P & I Clubs” – ROTATION – Publication in 1997
- Article entitled “The role of arbitration institutions in arbitration international shipping “, published in the ATENEO DEL TRANSPORTE, March 1997
- “Reflections on the Brussels Convention of 1952 on Embargo Preventive of Maritime Navigation Vessels and its current process of reform. “- THE GEORGIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW – June, 1997.
- Article on “The freezing of ships and problems submitted to the Port Authorities “. – DIARIO DEL PUERTO – 19 June 1997
- Article entitled “The Centenary of the International Maritime Committee” -TRANSPORTATION XXI – July 1997
- “Spanish Law on Maritime Liens & Claim”, W. TETLEY – “Conflicts International Law: Common, Civil and Maritime “- 2nd edition, July 1997
- Article on “The New English Arbitration Law of 1996 and Arbitration Maritime “- LA LA 29 August 1997
- Article entitled “In favor of the shipping investment in Spain” – PROA A LA MAR – No. 134-1997
- Article titled “The Privatization of Ports: The Time of Law Portuario “- BULLETIN Nº 3 MARÍTIMO Y DEL MAR – IIDM REP. DOMINICAN – December 1997
- “Transport Law”, monographic compendium on Spain, INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF LAWS, Ed. Kluwer Law International, 1998
- Article entitled “The role of arbitration in maritime law” – Transport XXI – June 15, 1998
- Article titled “The Civil Liability of the Practitioner” – Practical Magazine of Port, March 1999
LANGUAGE
Spanish, English and French
