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Agenda

XIXth Congress Steering Committee

o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bea Verschraegen LL.M., M.E.M., Head of the Department of Comparative Law, Uniform Law and Private International Law; Head of the National Committee and titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Schauer
, Department of Civil Law; titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law

in cooperation with

International Academy of Comparative Law

George A. Bermann
, Gellhorn Professor of Law & Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law, Columbia Law School, New York, USA (President)
Jürgen Basedow
, Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany (Secretary-General)
Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson, University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), France (Vice-President)
Toshiyuki Kono , Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (Vice-President)
Marek Safjan, Poland, Judge at the European Court of Justice, Luxembourg (Vice-President)
Jorge Sanchez Cordero, Mexican Center of Uniform Law, Mexico (Vice-President)
Xavier Blanc-Jouvan, Academia Europaea, France (Treasurer)

Please note that changes and updates may be made due to further planning and speaker confirmations.


Please note that all venues are subject to change.

       Sunday, 20 July 2014

14:00 - 17:00

Registration (Ground floor of the Juridicum, Faculty of Law)

17:00 - 18:00

Opening Reception (Main Ceremonial Chamber [Großer Festsaal] in the Main Building of the University of Vienna)  

  • Dean Heinz MAYER
  • President IACL – George BERMANN
  • President IACPIL and Chair Steering Comittee – Bea VERSCHRAEGEN in cooperation with Martin SCHAUER

       Monday, 21 July 2014

All sessions will be held at the Juridicum, Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna.

08:30 - 17:30

Registration (Ground floor)

09:00 – 09:15

U 10 - 1st basement floor

Opening Plenary

  • President of the Austrian Federal Republic –
    Dr. Heinz FISCHER, represented by
    Prof. Dr. Ludwig ADAMOVICH (Counselor to President Dr. Fischer, former president of the Constitutional Court of Austria)

09:15 – 10:45


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I.A. Legal History and Ethnology: "Migration and law"Marie-Claire FOBLETS / Jean-Yves CARLIER

Chair: Patrick GLENN

10:45 - 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 - 12:30

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RA Dr. REINER: „International Commercial Arbitration: How international and how commercial is it and how autonomous should it be?"

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 - 15:30



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Session 1: IV.B.2. Constitutional Law: "Foreign precedents in constitutional litigation" – Marie-Claire PONTHOREAU

Chair: David CLARK

 

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Session 2: II.A.3. Civil Law: "Disgorgement of profits" – Ewoud HONDIUS / André JANSSEN

Chair: Stathis BANAKAS

 

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Session 3: IV.D. Administrative Law: "Recognition of foreign administrative acts" – Jaime RODRIGUEZ-ARANA MUÑOZ

Chair: Giuseppe Franco FERRARI

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30


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Session 1: III.A.1. Commercial Law: "The law of close
corporations
" - Holger FLEISCHER

Chair: Rafael Mariano MANÓVIL

 

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Session 2: II.B.2. Private International Law: "The effects of corruption in international commercial contracts" – Michael Joachim BONELL / Olaf MEYER

Chair: Vivian GROSSWALD CURRAN

17:30






Reception 1: Willheim Müller Rechtsanwälte, Rockhgasse 6, 1010 Vienna (limited access - Registration in advance is mandatory)
Reception 2: Prugger - Attourney at Law, Oppolzergasse 6/10, 1010 Vienna (limited access - Registration in advance is mandatory)

       Tuesday, 22 July 2014

All sessions will be held at the Juridicum, Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna.

08:30 - 17:30

Registration (Ground floor)

09:00 - 10:30

 

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Session 1: I.B.2. General Legal Theory: "Judicial rulings with prospective effect" – Eva STEINER

Chair: Gustavo TEPEDINO

 

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Session 2: I.C. Comparative Law and Unification of the Law: "Review and recognition of foreign arbitral awards – The application of the New York Convention by national courts" – George A. BERMANN

Chair: Herbert KRONKE

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30


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Session 1: I.B.1. General Legal Theory: "The independence of a meritorious elite : The government of judges and democracy" – Sophie TURENNE

Chair: Nicolás ETCHEVERRY

 

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Session 2: IV.A.2. International Public Law: "The UN Convention on the rights of the child and its implementation in national law" – Olga CVEJIĆ JANČIĆ

Chair: Katharina BOELE-WOELKI


 

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Session 3: III.C. Labour Law: "Whistleblowing" - Gregor THÜSING

Chair: John REITZ

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 - 15:30

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Special Sem I "Jurisprudence of Finance" offered by Specht Böhm

Moderator: Judith SCHACHERREITER

Speakers: Gunnar HEINSOHN & Leopold SPECHT

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Session 2: III.D. Air and Maritime Law: "Security interests burdening transport vehicles – The Capetown Convention and its implementation in national law" – Souichirou KOZUKA

Chair: Eric DIRIX

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30


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Special Sem II "Emerging Forms of Finance" offered by Specht Böhm

Moderator: Christiane WENDEHORST

Speakers: Ingo BRAUN & Tamara LOTHIAN

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Session 2: IV.E. Tax Law: "Taxation and development" – Karen B. BROWN

Chair: Tracy A. KAYE

18:00 - 21:00


Top floor

Meeting: American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL)

       Wednesday, 23 July 2014

08:30 - 17:30

Registration (Ground floor)

09:00 - 18:00

OPTION I - Special Seminar at PEU/Bratislava on "The influence of systemic transition on jurisprudence and doctrine"

Moderator: Jürgen BASEDOW

Speakers: Pavel HOLLÄNDER, Jiri PRIBAN, Gabor HALMAI

limited access

registration is based on first come first serve

9:00 - 10:30

 

 

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OPTION II - Special Seminar at the Juridicum (Vienna): The Role of Language as a dynamic part of legal tradition  - The role of foreign languages within legal systemsISDC  

Introduction: Lukas HECKENDORN

Speakers: Stéphanie De DYCKER, Karim El CHAZLI, Ilaria PRETELLI, Josef SKALA, Martin SYCHOLD

limited acces

 

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break offered by Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (ISDC)

11:00 – 13:00


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OPTION II – Round Table Discussion – ISDC

Chair: Bea VERSCHRAEGEN

Participants: Franz WERRO, Katharina BOELE-WOELKI, Ko HASEGAWA

Concluding Remarks - Patrick GLENN & Jane GLENN

limited access


13:00 – 14:00

Lunch offered by Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (ISDC) - at the Restaurant Schweizergarten


14:00 - 15:30
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OPTION III - Special Sem III "Finance Viewed from the Standpoint of Different Legal Traditions: The Example of Islamic Finance" offered by Specht Böhm

Moderator: Bea VERSCHRAEGEN

Speakers: Moatasem ALGHERIANI & Leopold SPECHT

14:30 - ca. 16:30

 

City tour 1: Walking tour through the old city of Vienna (limited access)

14:30 - ca. 18:00


City tour 2: Historical Vienna incl. Schönbrunn Palace (limited access)

       Thursday, 24 July 2014

All sessions will be held at the Juridicum, Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna.

08:30 - 17:30

Registration (Ground floor)

09:00 - 10:30

 

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Session 1: V.A. Penal Law: "Counter-terrorism law" – Kent ROACH

Chair: Ulrich SIEBER

 

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Session 2: II.C.1. Civil Procedure: "Mediation, more particularly, cross-border and judicial mediations" – Carlos ESPLUGUES / Louis MARQUIS

Chair: Bénédicte FAUVARQUE-COSSON

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

 

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Session 1: II.A.2. Civil Law: "The effects of financial crises on the binding force of contracts: renegotiation, rescission or revision" – Rona SEROZAN

Chair: Pierre-Gabriel JOBIN

 

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Session 2: II.D. Environmental Law: "Genetic technology and food security" - Roland NORER

Chair: Hannah BUXBAUM

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 - 15:30

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Session 1: IV.C.1. Human Rights: "Applicable religious rules according to the law of the State" – Silvio FERRARI

Chair: Marek SAFJAN

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Session 2: III.A.3. Commercial Law: "Personal guarantees between commercial law and consumer protection" - Andreas SCHWARTZE

Chair: Silvia FERRERI

 


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Special Session 3: “Protection of private autonomy through Legal Advice” (offered by Austrian Chamber of Notaries)

Chair: Thorsten ANTENREITER

Speakers: Christian HELMENSTEIN, Michael LUNZER


Panel discussion:

Participants: Cindy FÖKEHRER, Christoph GRABENWARTER, Armenak UTUDJIAN


15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30

 



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Session 1: III.B. Intellectual Property: "License contracts, free software and creative commons" – Axel METZGER

Chair: Joost BLOM

 


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Session 2: IV.B.1. Constitutional Law: "Limitations on government debt and public deficit" - Fred MORRISON

Chair: Miklós KIRÁLY

19:00

Viennese Wine Tavern

       Friday, 25 July 2014

All sessions will be held at the Juridicum, Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna.

08:30 - 17:30

Registration (Ground floor)

09:00 - 10:30


 


 

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Session 1: IV.C.1. Human Rights: "Social and economic rights as fundamental rights" – Kryzysztof Mariusz WOJTYCZEK

Chair: Camelia TOADER

 


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Session 2: VI. Computers: "Secondary liability of service providers" – Graeme DINWOODIE

Chair: Toshiyuki KONO

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Session 3: V.B. Criminal Procedure: "Undercover investigations" - David CHILSTEIN

Chair: Nora DEMLEITNER

 

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30



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Session 1: II.A.4. Civil Law: "Contractualisation of family law" - Frederik SWENNEN

Chair: Maarit JÄNTERÄ-JAREBORG

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Session 2: III.A.2. Commercial Law: "The protection of minority investors and the compensation of their losses" - Martin GELTER

Chair: Uwe BLAUROCK

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 - 15:30

 

 

 


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Session 1: II.C.2. Civil Procedure: "The organisation of legal professions" - Martin HENSSLER

Chair: Jorge Sánchez CORDERO

 

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Session 2: IV.A.1. International Public Law: "Damages for the infringement of human rights" - Ewa BAGIŃSKA

Chair: Tatjana JOSIPOVIC

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30



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Session 1: I.D. Legal Education: "The internationalisation of legal education" – William VAN CAENEGEM / Christophe JAMIN

Chair: Sjef VAN ERP

 


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Session 2: II.B.1. Private International Law: "Proof of and information about foreign law" – Yuko NISHITANI

Chair: Diego Fernández ARROYO

       Saturday, 26 July 2014

All sessions will be held at the Juridicum, Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna.

08:30 - 13:00

Registration (Ground floor)

09:00 - 10:30






 


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Session 1: II.A.1. Civil Law: "The influence of human rights and basic rights in private law" – Verica TRSTENJAK

Chair: Susan KIEFEL

 

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Session 2: III.A.4. Commercial Law: "Company Law and the Law of Succession" – Susanne KALSS

Chair: Franklin GEVURTZ

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 11:15

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Christiane WENDEHORST, vice-president of ELI : "The European Law Institute – Vision and Activities"

 

11:15 - 12:45

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Closing session:
Report by the former SG IACL - Jürgen BASEDOW

Election of
New President IACL - NN
New SG IACL - NN

And members of the Executive Committee

Final addresses:
New president, former and new SG
Steering Committee IACL World Congress

14:00 – 15:00

Top floor

Executive Council Meeting

19:00

Closing banquet

 

 

 

 

 

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