Publications 

Dr. José A. Moreno Rodríguez is the author of legal works published in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

Books

• Private (and Public) International Law in Investment Arbitration, Hague Academy of International Law and Brill, Netherlands, 2023.
• Commercial and Investment Arbitration, Intercontinental and CEDEP, Asuncion, 2023.
• Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: Global Perspectives on the Hague Principles (Regional Editor), Oxford University Press, 2021.
• Use of the UNIDROIT Principles to Interpret and Supplement Domestic Contract Law (Co-Editor with Alejandro Garro), Ius Comparatum – Global Studies in Comparative Law, Vol. 51, Springer, 2021.
• Commercial and Investment Arbitration, Intercontinental and CEDEP, Asuncion, 2023.
• International Sale and the CISG (Co-Editor with Alejandro Garro), Intercontinental and CEDEP, Asunción, 2019.
• Contract Law Course, Second Edition, Intercontinental and CEDEP, Asunción, 2017.
• Civil Code of the Republic of Paraguay, Annotated (Co-Editor), T. V., Editorial La Ley Paraguaya, 3rd Edition, Asunción, 2017.
• International Contracts (Co-Editor with Diego Fernández Arroyo), Globalization Law Library, ASADIP-OAS, Washington D.C., 2015.
• Applicable Law and Arbitration, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, 2013; Thomson, Lima, 2013; Intercontinental and CEDEP, Asunción, 2013; Thomson, Madrid, 2014;
• Direito Aplicável e Arbitragem, Juruá Editora, Curitiba, 2015.
• Course on Legal Facts and Acts, Intercontinental and CEDEP, Asunción, 2016.
• Tribute book to Roberto Ruíz Díaz Labrano (Co-Editor with Diego Fernánde Arroyo), CEDEP, 2013.
• Arbitration in Paraguay, Intercontinental and CEDEP, Asunción, 2011.
• Contracts, Collective Work, Intercontinental and CEDEP, Asunción, 2011.
• Pan-American Corporate and Bankruptcy Law (Co-Editor with Daniel Roque Vítolo), Editorial Legis Argentina and CEDEP, 2013.
• Contracting and Arbitration, Recent Contributions, CEDEP, Asunción, 2010.
• How is international commercial law codified today? (Co-Editor with Jürgen Basedow and Diego Fernández Arroyo), Thomson Reuters and CEDEP, Asunción, 2010.
• Legislative Technique and its Relationship with Global and Regional Normative Development Processes (Editor, 2 vol.), Suplemento Especial, Revista Jurídica La Ley Paraguaya, Asunción, 2008.
• Consumer Protection in the Americas – the Work of the CIDIP (OAS) (Co-Editor with Diego Fernández Arroyo), La Ley Paraguaya, Asunción, 2007.
• Supplement on Computer Law (Editor), La Ley Paraguaya, Asunción, 2007.
• Two Theses on Contracts, Editorial Intercontinental Editora, Asunción, 2007.
• Topics on International Contracting, Investments, and Arbitration, Catena Editores and CEDEP, Asunción, 2006.
• Stock and Trust Legislation, co-authored with Victor Hugo Dejesús Chena, Justina Isabel Godoy Giménez, Editorial Intercontinental Editora, 2005.
• Arbitration and Mediation (Editor), Intercontinental, Asunción, 2003.
• Abusive Clauses in Contracts, Editorial Intercontinental Editora, 1999.
• Theory of Causation, Intercontinental Editora, 1996.
• Banking Law (Co-author), La Ley Paraguaya – Editions 1995, 1999 and 2001.
• Civil Law Course, Legal Facts and Acts, Editorial Intercontinental Editora, 1991 – Reprints in 1995, 1999, 2001, 2004 and 2008.

Contributions in books

• “The Unidroit Principles in Investment Arbitration,” in Elgar Companion to Unidroit, Elgar Publishing, 2024.
• “Non-state Law in the New Uruguayan Law of Private International Law,” co-authored with Eduardo Florio de León in Comments on the New General Law of Private International Law (No. 19,920 of November 17, 2020) (E. Vescovi, ed.), Idea Editions, 2022.
• “Paraguayan Perspectives on the Hague Principles,” in Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: Global Perspectives on the Hague Principles (Daniel Girsberger, Thomas Kadner Graziano, Jan L. Neels, general eds.), Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 1089-1103.
• “The OAS Guide and the Hague Principles,” in Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: Global Perspectives on the Hague Principles (Daniel Girsberger, Thomas Kadner Graziano, Jan L. Neels, gen. eds.), Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 931-950.
• “Perspectives on the Hague Principles in International Commercial Arbitration” (co-authored with L. Gama and D. Girsberger), in Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: Global Perspectives on the Hague Principles (D. Girsberger, T. Kadner Graziano, and J. L. Neels, gen. eds.), Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 200- 234.
• “Advocating Party Autonomy in Private International Law – The 2015 Choice of Law Principles,” in The Elgar Companion to the Hague Conference on Private International Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020, pp. 349-358.
• “The CISG in Paraguay” in The Vienna Convention in America (Iacyr de Aguilar Vieira and Gustavo Cerqueira, eds.), Société de Législation Comparée, 2020, pp. 251-270.
• “Paraguay: Reform of the System of Chattel Securities” co-authors Lucía Elena Cazal Zaldívar in Inter-American Model Law on Chattel Securities: Its Implementation (David Morán Bovio, ed.), Marcial Pons, Madrid, 2020.
• “The New OAS Guide on International Contracts,” in Festschrift for Herbert Kronke on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday, Gieseking Verlag, 2020.
• “The Pioneering Role of the Treaties of Montevideo for the Codification of International Contract Law in the World” in Legacy and Future of Their Solutions in Today’s International Concert: 130th Anniversary of the Treaties of Montevideo of 1889 (Cecilia Fresnedo de Aguirre, Gonzalo A. Lorenzo Idiarte, eds.) 2019, pp. 165-180.
• “Legal Regime of Foreign Investments in Paraguay, in Treaty of Foreign Investments and Investment Arbitration” in Treaty of Foreign Investments and Investment Arbitration in Ibero-America (Carlos Esplugues Mota, ed.), Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2019.
• “The Effectiveness of International Commercial Arbitration as a Dispute Resolution Mechanism” in Issues of International Law: Individual, Commerce and Procedure II (Frederico Eduardo Zenedin Glitz, eds.), JML Editora, Paraná, 2018, pp. 145-162.
• “Paraguay” in Encyclopedia of Private International Law, Elgar Publishing, 2017.
• “Interpretation and Application of the New York Convention in Paraguay” in Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: The Interpretation and Application of the New York Convention by National Courts (George A. Bermann, ed.), Springer, 2017.
• “Non-State Law in the New Paraguayan Law on International Contracts,” in Compendium of Presidential Administrative Law (Sergio Godoy, ed.), Thomson Reuters, Asuncion, 2017.
• “The New Paraguayan Law on International Contracts: Back to the Past?” in Eppur si muove: The Age of Uniform Law – Essays in Honor of Michael Joachim Bonell to Celebrate His 70th Birthday (UNIDROIT), 2016, Vol. 2, pp. 1146-1178.
• “Non-State Law in the New Paraguayan Law on International Contracts” in Private International Law and Its Challenges Today (Alberto Do Amaral Júnior and Luciane Klein Vieira, eds.), Grupo Editorial Ibañez, 2016.
• “Arbitration as a Service and Private International Law” in Services in Private International Law (José Antonio Moreno Rodríguez and Claudia Lima Marques, eds.), Association of Private International Law (ASADIP), 2014, pp. 261-280.
• “Non-State Law in Current Latin American Contracting,” in Contemporary International Law (Luiz Olavo Baptista, Larissa Ramina and Tatyana Scheila Friedrich, eds.), Juruá Editora, Curitiba, 2014.
• “Cross-Border Contractual Autonomy in Paraguay: We Have Jurisprudence!” in Private International Law and Integration Law Homage Book to Roberto Ruiz Díaz Labrano, CEDEP, 2013, pp. 373-386.
• “Commentary on Article 35” in New UNCITRAL Arbitration Regulations 2010, Annotated and Commented (Pilar Perales Viscasillas and Ignacio Torterola, eds.), Editorial Legis, Buenos Aires, 2011.
• “International Commercial Arbitration in Paraguay: Legal and Jurisprudential Framework” in International Commercial Arbitration in Ibero-America, Legal and Jurisprudential Framework (Cristian Conejero et al., eds.), La Ley Wolters Kluwer, Madrid, 2011.
• “The Hague Contracts: Anchor to the Past or Bridge to the Future?” in How is International Commercial Law Codified Today? (Jürgen Basedow, José Antonio Moreno Rodríguez, Diego P. Fernández Arroyo, eds.), 2010, pp. 245-339.
• “Cross-Border Contractual Autonomy in Paraguay” in Private International Law Homage Book to Tatiana Maekelt, CEDEP, Asunción, 2010.
• “Paraguay” in World Arbitration Reporter (WAR) (Loukas Mistelis, Laurence Shore, and Hans Smit, eds.), Second Edition, Juris Publishers, New York, 2021.
• “Public Policy and Arbitration: Some Recent and Striking Pronouncements in Europe and MERCOSUR” in Commercial Law in the 21st Century (Jorge Oviedo Albán, ed.), Temis Editorial, Universidad de la Sabana, Bogotá, 2008.
• “Paraguay” in International Contracts Law in Latin America, Portugal, and Spain (Carlos Esplugues Mota et al., eds.), Edisofer, BdeF, 2008.
• “Civil Liability in Public Procurement” in Vademécum on Legal Responsibilities in Public Procurement Process (Prisciliano Alberto Sandoval Diez, ed.), Arandura Editorial, Asunción, 2008.
• “Public Policy and Arbitration: Some Recent and Striking Pronouncements in Europe and MERCOSUR” in Commercial Law in the 21st Century (Jorge Oviedo Albán, ed.), Temis Editorial, Universidad de la Sabana, Bogotá, 2008, pp. 199-242.
• “Contract Interpretation in the New International Scenario” in Treaty on the Interpretation of the Contract in Latin America (Carlos A. Soto, ed.), Grijley Editorial, Lima, 2007.
• “Civil Liability in the New International Scenario” in Treaty on the Interpretation of the Contract in Latin America (Carlos Soto, ed.), Grijley Editorial, Lima, 2007.
• “Ramiro Rodríguez Alcalá, Silent Architect of the National Civil Code” in Paraguayan Private Law: Studies for the 20th Anniversary of the Civil Code (Antonio Tellechea Solís, ed.), La Ley Editorial, Asunción, 2007.
• “Paraguay’s New Arbitration Law: A Bridge out of the Island” (Thomas Carbonneau, ed.), Penn State University, USA, 2006.
• “Legal Regime of Foreign Trade” co-authored by Guillermo Palao Moreno in International Trade Law. Mercosur – European Union (Carlos Esplugues Mota, Daniel Hargain, eds.), 2005, pp. 77-140.
• “International Sale of Goods: The 1980 Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods” co-authors Carlos Esplugues Mota, Iacyr de Aguilar Vieira in International Trade Law: Mercosur-European Union (Carlos Esplugues Mota, Daniel Hargain, eds.), 2005, pp. 345-397.
• “International Contracting: General Regime” co-authored by Carlos Esplugues Mota in International Trade Law: Mercosur – European Union (Carlos Esplugues Mota, Daniel Hargain, eds.), 2005, pp. 281-344.
• “Regulation of International Civil Procedural Law in Paraguay” co-author, in DeCITA, International Trade Law, Themes and Current Affairs (Diego P. Fernández Arroyo, A. Dreyzin de Klor, eds.), Zavalía Editorial, Buenos Aires, 2005.
• “Legal Regime of Foreign Investments in Paraguay” in DeCITA: International Trade Law (Adriana Dreyzin de Klor, eds.), No. 3, 2005, pp. 240-269.
• “Cause and Consideration in Contract Form: Current State in Comparative Law” in Private Law Facing Internationality, Integration and Globalization (Atilio Alterini, Noemi L. Nicolau, eds.), 2005, pp. 401-421.
• “The Future of Contract Law Codification in Mercosur: An Essay in Perspective” in Sesquicentennial of the Andrés Bello Civil Code, Past, Present and Future of Codification (María Dora Martinic G., Mauricio Tapia R., eds.), Lexis Nexis Editorial, Santiago, 2005, Volume II, pp. 1143-1174.
• “The UNIDROIT Principles of Contract Law” in Arbitration and Mediation (ed.), Intercontinental Editora Editorial, Asunción, 2003.

Articles in publications

• El derecho aplicable al fondo: Un debate ausente en las propuestas de Reforma al Mecanismo de Resolución de Disputas de las Inversiones Extranjeras, in Curso de Derecho Internacional, Inter-American Juridical Committee, Washington, 2023.
• “La nueva guía de la Organización de Estados Americanos y el derecho aplicable a los contratos internacionales (partes I y II)”, in Revista Española de Derecho Internacional, Vols. 73 and 74, 2021.
• “Arbitration as a Service and Private International Law,” in Boletín 106 da Sociedade Brasileira de Direito Internacional, 2019.
• “Beyond the Mexico Convention and the Hague Principles: what’s next for the Americas?”, in Suplemento de Derecho Internacional Privado y de la Integración Eldial.com (Sara Lidia Feldstein de Cárdenas, ed.), 2018.
• “El Arbitraje Internacional y La Nueva Ley Paraguaya de Contratos Internacionales”, in Revista de Derecho Comercial y de las Obligaciones de la Argentina, 2018.
• “El Arbitraje Internacional y La Nueva Ley Paraguaya de Contratos Internacionales”, in Lima Arbitration, 2017.
• “The Hague Principles: at last a universal solution to problems of law applicable to international contracting!”, in Revista de Derecho Privado y Comunitario de la Argentina, Rubinzal- Culzoni, 2017.
• “The Hague Principles and the new Paraguayan Law on International Contracts: Potential Influence on Legal Reform in the Americas,” in Global Forum on Private International Law, Wuhan, China, 2017.
• “The Hague Principles, the OAS Guide & the New Paraguayan Law on International Contracts,” in Curso de Derecho Internacional, Vol. 44, 2017, pp. 155-154.
• “La efectividad del arbitraje comercial internacional como mecanismo de solución de controversias”, in Revista Foro de Derecho Mercantil, Bogotá, 2017.
• “El Derecho no Estatal en la nueva ley paraguaya de contratos internacionales”, in Revista Foro Derecho Mercantil, No. 50, 2016.
• “Prologue”, in Revista Secretaría del Tribunal Permanente de Revisión, No. 8, Asunción, 2016.
• “A arbitragem internacional e a nova lei paraguaia de contratos internacionais”, in Revista de la Secretaría del Tribunal Permanente de Revisión, Asunción, 2015.
• “Debate on Non-State Law and Lex Mercatoria”, in Forseti International Arbitration, 1, 2014.
• “Debate on Non-State Law and Lex Mercatoria”, in Revista Jurídica de la U. Católica de Asunción, 2014.
• “Derecho Aplicable a la Contratación y el Arbitraje Internacional”, in Revista Ecuatoriana de Arbitraje, Cevallos Editora Jurídica, 2012.
• “Los Principios de la Haya y el Derecho No Estatal en el Arbitraje Comercial Internacional”, in Revista Jurídica de la UNICURITIBA, 2012.
• “Reflexiones emergentes de la Convención de México para la elaboración del futuro instrumento de La Haya en materia de contratación internacional”, Co-authored with Mercedes Albornoz, in Revista Electrónica El Dial, Suplemento de Derecho Internacional Privado y de la Integración, No. 58, 2011.
• “Contracts and Non-State Law in Latin America”, in Uniform Law Review, N.S. – Vol. XVI, 2011.
• “Reflections on the Mexico Convention in the Context of the Preparation of the Future Hague Instrument on International Contracts”, Co-authored with Mercedes Albornoz, in Journal of Private International Law, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2011.
• “New York Convention on Arbitration: The Most Transcendent Convention in the History of Private Law”, in Tendencias y Relaciones del Derecho Internacional Privado Americano Actual, Editorial Porrúa, Mexico, 2010.
• “Derecho Aplicable a la Contratación y el Arbitraje Internacional”, in Revista Jurídica Universidad Católica de Asunción.
• “La Convención más trascendente en la historia del Derecho Privado”, in Revista Jurídica La Ley Paraguaya, No. 52, 2009.
• “La Responsabilidad Civil dentro del Nuevo Escenario Internacional, in: Responsabilidad Civil, Daños y Perjuicios”, in División de Investigación, Legislación y Publicaciones, Centro Internacional de Estudios Judiciales, Corte Suprema de Justicia, and Intercontinental Editora, Asunción, 2008.
• “La Responsabilidad Civil dentro del Nuevo Escenario Internacional”, in Revista Jurídica La Ley Paraguaya, Asunción, 2008.
• “Orden Público y Arbitraje”, in Revista Foro de Derecho Mercantil, No. 20, Bogotá, 2008.
• “Orden Público y Arbitraje”, in Revista Electrónica Lima Arbitration, 2007.
• “Orden Público y Arbitraje: Algunos Llamativos Pronunciamientos Recientes en el MERCOSUR y la Unión Europea”, in Revista Jurídica La Ley Paraguaya, 2007.
• “Paraguay”, in International Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Aspartore Books, USA, 2006.
• “La Contratación Internacional y los Procesos de Integración Regional”, in Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción, 2006.
• “Los Principios Contractuales de UNIDROIT: ¿Un Mero Ejercicio Académico de Juristas Notables?”, in Revista Foro de Derecho Mercantil, Editorial Legis, Bogotá, 2005.
• “Derecho aplicable, orden público y el régimen arbitral paraguayo”, in Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem, No. 3, IDB Thompson and Comitê Brasileiro de Arbitragem, São Paulo, 2004.
• “Esfuerzos Mundiales de Homogeneización del Derecho Mercantil Internacional”, in Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción, 2005.
• “Artículo sobre Derecho Mercantil y Arbitraje”, in Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de la UCA, 2003.
• “Nueva Lex Mercatoria: ¿Fantasma creado por profesores de La Sorbona?”, in Revista de Derecho Mercantil Internacional, Editorial Legis, Colombia, 2003.
• “Reforma del Mercado de Valores en el Paraguay, Reflexiones, Apuntes y Sugerencias”, in Revista Jurídica de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción, 2001.
• “Cláusulas Contractuales Abusivas en el Derecho Paraguayo”, in Revista de Derecho Comparado,Cláusulas Abusivas – II – Rubinzal Culzoni, Editores, 2000.
• “El Arbitraje y los Contratos con Cláusulas Predispuestas”, in Publication of the National Chamber of Commerce of Uruguay, Conciliation and Arbitration Center, International Arbitration Center for MERCOSUR, 2000.
• “Técnica Legislativa: Apuntes, Reflexiones y Sugerencias”, Revista Jurídica de la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Diplomáticas, Universidad Católica de Asunción, 1998.
• “Limitación de Elección de Directores en el Régimen Bursátil Paraguayo”, in Revista Jurídica La Ley, Asunción, 1994.