We are pleased to announce the
Journal of Private International Law Conference 2007
to be held in a purpose-built conference theatre in the Business School at the University of Birmingham
on Tuesday 26 - Wednesday 27 June
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Programme
Tuesday 26th June 2007
9am – 10.30am Postgraduate Forum
Mihail Danov, “Jurisdiction of English Courts in EC Competition Law Claims”, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Law, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Richard Frimpong Oppong, “Out of the Cold? Africa and Private International Law”, Ph.D. Candidate, University of British Columbia, Canada
Martin P. George, “Characterisation of Liability between a Carrier and a Third Party Holder of the Bill of Lading: Article 5(1) of the Brussels I Regulation”, Postgraduate Teaching Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate, School of Law, University of Birmingham, England
Helena Kasanová, “Administrative Cooperation in the Light of the Forthcoming Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance and the Proposed Council Regulation on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions and Cooperation in Matters Relating to Maintenance Obligations”, Slovak Ministry of Justice and Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Law, Trnava, Slovakia
Ruth Lamont, “The Europeanisation of Private International Family Law: The Unforeseen Consequences of Regulation 2201/2003”, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Law, University of Liverpool, England
10.30am – 11am Tea/Coffee Break
11am – 12.30pm Postgraduate Forum
Ivana Kunda, “The Choice of Law Issues Concerning the Intellectual Property Rights Infringement”, Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Veronika Gaertner, “Extra-judicial Divorces and the Principle of Mutual Recognition”, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Guangjian Tu, “Finding a Proper Nexus for Constructing Specific (Special) Rules of Jurisdiction with Respect to Commercial Contract and Tort Cases - a Comparative Study of the American Approach and the European Approach”, Ph.D. Graduate, School of Law, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Elisabeth Coureault, “Conflict of Laws and Software (or How the Proposal for a Rome II Regulation Could Remain a Beta)”, Ph.D. Candidate and Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Law, University of Nancy 2, France
Justin Borg Barthet, “Theories of the Firm and Connecting Factors”, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Law, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
12.30pm – 2pm Lunch [Including a Journal Editorial Advisory Board Meeting]
2pm – 4pm Contract
Nadia de Araujo, “New Developments in Private International Law in Latin America: the Need for a Convention on the Law Applicable to International Consumer Contracts in the Americas and the Organisation of American States Initiative for the Next Inter-American Specialised Conference on Private International Law”, Professor of International Law, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Orkun Akseli, “Assignment of Receivables, Conflict of Laws and Facilitation of Credit”, Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Newcastle, England
Franco Ferrari, “The Applicable Law in the Absence of Choice: the Proposed Rome I Regulation”, Professor of International Law, Department of Law, University of Verona, Italy
Andrew Dickinson, “A Critical Analysis of the Law Applicable to Contractual Agency”, Solicitor Advocate, Clifford Chance LLP, London; Visiting Fellow in Private International Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law
4pm – 4.30pm Tea/Coffee Break
4.30pm – 6pm Jurisdiction and Enforcement
Michael Karayanni, “The Quest for Creative Jurisdiction: the Evolution of Personal Jurisdiction Doctrine by Israeli Courts towards the Palestinian Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Authority”, Edward S. Silver Chair in Civil Procedure Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
David Stewart and Anna Conley, “E-mail Service on Foreign Defendants: Time for an International Approach?”, Assistant Legal Adviser (Private International Law), U.S. Department of State, Washington, USA; and LL.M. Candidate, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Canada
Stephen G.A. Pitel, “Enforcement of Commercial Non-Monetary Orders”, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario, Canada
6.30pm – 7.30pm Keynote Address
With the Right Honourable Lord Hope of Craighead, House of Lords and Professor Jonathan Harris, School of Law, University of Birmingham
7.30pm - onwards Drinks Reception and Dinner
Wednesday 27th June 2007
9am – 10.45am Arbitration / Jurisdiction and Choice of Law
Hew Dundas, “The New York Convention and the Enforcement of Arbitral Awards: Emerging Trends”, President, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, England
Ioanna Thoma, “The Law Applicable to Confidentiality in International Commercial Arbitration”, Lecturer in Law, School of Social Sciences and Law, Brunel University, London, England
Sophia Tang, “Interrelationship of Jurisdiction and Choice of Law”, Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Pippa Rogerson, “Further Reflections on the Interrelationship of Jurisdiction and Choice of Law”, Fellow and Tutor, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, England
10.45am – 11.15am Tea/Coffee Break
11.15am - 12.45pm Family
Andrea Schulz, “The Enforcement of Return Orders under the Hague Child Abduction Convention”, First Secretary, Hague Conference on Private International Law
J.A. Pontier, “Left Behind Children and Left Alone Mothers: Reconsidering the 1980 Hague Convention on International Child Abduction”, Professor of Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Aude Fiorini, “Rome III – A Step Too Far in the Communitarisation of Family Law?”, Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
12.45pm – 2pm Lunch
2pm – 4pm International / Property
Charles T. Kotuby Jr, “Private International Law before the United States Supreme Court: the Function and Exercise of Certiorari Power in the Shaping of Multilateral Rules and International Norms”, Associate, Jones Day Law Firm, USA
Monika Pauknerová, “Czech Republic: Tradition, New Experience and Challenges in Private International Law“, Professor of Law, Law Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Sophie Vigneron, “Conflict of Laws and the Illicit Art Trade: Determining the Law Applicable to Restitution of Illegally Exported Cultural Property”, Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Kent, England
Anna Gardella, “Lex Rei Sitae in the Modern Liquidity Era”, Assistant Professor of Law, Università Cattolica di Milano, School of Law, Italy
4pm – 4.30pm Tea/Coffee Break
4.30pm – 6pm General Principles
Christopher Forsyth, “A Moderate Defence of Renvoi”, Professor of Public Law and Private International Law, and Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, England
Alexander Mills, “Relative and Absolute Public Policy in Private International Law”, Slaughter and May Lecturer in Law, and Fellow of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, England
Mary Keyes, “The Interaction of Statutes with Choices of Forum and Law”, Associate Professor, Griffith Law School, Australia
