ROCCO CAIRA

Born

 

Dublin, Ireland, 1960.

 

Professional titles

Solicitor, member of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland since 1985 (currently non-practising) and of the Law Society of England and Wales since 1992 (currently non-practising). Practising member of the Bilbao-Vizcaya Bar since 1994.

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

 

Third-level education

B.A. (Moderatorship) in Legal Science, Trinity College Dublin, 1982.
Diploma in European Law, University College Dublin, 1984.
M.A., Trinity College Dublin, 1991.
Diploma in Advanced Studies in Public International Law, International Relations and History of Law, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, 2000.

 

Areas of practice

International commercial contracts in general, and in particular aerospace industry agreements, shipbuilding finance, distribution and agency agreements, EC law and arbitration.

Legal advisor to various international trade associations.

Member of various commercial arbitration tribunals and business mediation centres.

Honorary Irish Consul in the Basque Autonomous Region.

President of the Asociación de Juristas Hispano -Británica, committee member, British Spanish Law Association, London, and British Chamber of Commerce Association, Bilbao.

Part-time lecturer in EC law and Commercial Law at the University of Deusto, Bilbao, and in commercial contract law at the Escuela Universitaria de la Cámara de Comercio de Bilbao as well as in courses organised by the Bilbao and Alava Chambers of Commerce.

 

Languages

English, Spanish, Italian and French.

 

 

Lectures, Conferences and Publications

 

Lecturer in Commercial Law and International Commercial Contracts in courses organised by the following institutions:

• Business Studies School of the University of the Basque Country (Master of Foreign Trade)
• University School of the Bilbao Chamber of Commerce (Marketing and Foreign Trade)
• Chambers of commerce of Bilbao, Guipúzcoa, Alava and Miranda de Ebro (courses and Masters courses in foreign trade)
• Chamber of Commerce of San Salvador (AFIS programme, run by the General Council of Spanish Chambers of Commerce)

Lecturer in European Union Law on the following courses:

• Deusto University, Bilbao, (degree in Business Studies).
• European Management Programme - MBA, Deusto University, Bilbao.

Others:

• Deusto University, Bilbao, Masters Course in Property and Planning Law.
• Law School of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland (tutor in conveyancing).
• Bilbao-Vizcaya and Guipuzcoa Bars, courses on Common Law

 

Conferences

• Incorporated Law Society of Ireland annual conference, Barcelona, 1997, "The Legal Professions in Spain".
• Hampshire Incorporated Law Society, seminar, Portsmouth, July 1997, "The Legal Professions in Spain".
• Northern Ireland Young Solicitors Association, Annual Conference, Enniskillen, March 1999, "The legal professions and the implementation of the Diplomas Directive in Spain".
• Dublin Solicitors Bar Association, Annual Conference, Madrid, 17th September 1999, "The use and Execution of Powers of Attorney in Spain".
• Bilbao-Vizcaya Bar, 22nd May 1998, "The Constitutional Aspects on the Good Friday Agreement in Ireland".
• Guipúzcoa Bar, San Sebastian, 2nd December 1999, "The Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland".
• Joint Bilbao-Vizcaya Bar - Hampshire Incorporated Law Society Conference, Bilbao, 24th March 2000, "The use and execution of Powers of Attorney in Spain".
• AIJA (Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats) Seminar, Bilbao, October 2001, "Opening Hours in Spain: State Legislation and the Position in the Basque Autonomous Region".
• Seminar "La Libre Competencia en la Unión Europea", Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, April 2004
• Lecture "The energy to compete in Spain: merger control and the case of Endesa", Annual Conference of the British Spanish Law Association, Valencia, May 2006
• Lecture "Aspectos jurídicos de la política de defensa de la competencia", in the "Curso sobre Defensa de la Competencia en Canarias", Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Octubre 2006
• Seminal alongside the Annual General Meeting of AGEX: "Condiciones General de la Contratación - CAEF / FEAF Edición 2006", Bilbao, July 2007

 

Publications

El Acuerdo de Viernes Santo y los Derechos Humanos, Instituto de Derechos Humanos, Universidad de Deusto, Cuadernos Deusto de Derechos Humanos, núm. 45, 2007, as well as numerous articles in various Publications and journals.