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Monday 5th September
| 9.30-12.30 | British Association of Comparative Law meeting |
| 10.30 | Registration opens, Downing College |
| 12.30-1.45 | Light Lunch and Publishers' Exhibition: Marquee on the Paddock |
| 1.45-3.15 | Group A1 Subject Sections Meetings |
September 5th 13.45 - 15.15 Music Room
"Re-enactment of the lass-Steagall Act 1933 - Is this a step in the right direction for global financial reform?" 1B. Eilis Ferran (Cambridge)
"Financial crisis as a driver of Law reform: where it is taking the EU?"
1C Adolfo Paolini (Buckingham)
"Non- Executive Directors in Financial Institutions: How much do we need them?
September 5th 13.45 - 15.15 Howard Theatre
September 5th 13.45 - 15.15 Howard Bld Rec Rm
September 5th 13.45 - 15.15 Room H1
The Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act 2010: Too Little, Too Late? 1B Julia Hönle (Queen Mary),
Computing in the Clouds & the Reach of EU Data Protection Law 1C Rebecca Wong (Nottingham Trent),
The Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC:idealisms and realisms 1D Giovanna De Minico (Naples "Federico II"),
Europe - The United Kingdom - Italy: a comparison of Universal Service, Broadband and Next Generation Network Policies 1E Michael Landau (Georgia State),
New Technology, New Media, New Markets: The Importance of Contract
Commentators: Julia Hönle, Chris Marsden and Faye Wang
September 5th 13.45 - 15.15 Room MR4
September 5th 13.45 - 15.15 Butterfield Room
1A Imelda Maher, (University College Dublin), and Dermot Hodson, (Birkbeck College), 'The European Union Bill: Competence Incompetence' 1B Claudina Richards, ( East Anglia) 'Putting Cohn-Bendit to rest- directives before the French courts' 1C Egle Dagilyte, (PhD candidate, King's College London), '"Alice in Wonderland" in post-Lisbon Europe: do general principles of EU law generate autonomous rights or vice versa?'
September 5th 13.45 - 15.15 Wilkins Room
September 5th 13.45 - 15.15 Howard Bld Lec Rm
September 5th 13.45 - 15.15 Grace Howard Room
September 5th 13.45 - 15.15 Room R4
The UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage 2001: Some Reconsideration 10 Years On
1B Valentina Vadi (Maastricht):
"Military Sunken Vessels. Towards the rystallisation of Customary International Law"
September 5th 13.45 - 15.15 West Lodge
1A. Beáta Nacsa (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary) "The making of labour law and participatory democracy" 1B. Ashley Bowes (Surrey) "A year too far - the legality of two years qualifying period in unfair dismissal claims" 1C Hadara Bar-Mor (Netanya Academic College, Israel) "Corporate law v. Employment law - The current battle between the giant and the dwarf" 1D. James Murphie ( Abertay Dundee) "The Agency Workers Regulations 2010"
September 5th 13.45 - 15.15 Maitland
September 5th 13.45 - 15.15 Annex
Panel on "The Constitutional State"
Speakers:
T. R. S. Allan (Pembroke College, Cambridge)
Stuart Lakin (University of Reading)
Reply:
N. W. Barber (Trinity College, Oxford)
September 5th 13.45 - 15.15 Room H2
| 3.15-3.45 | Afternoon tea and Publishers' Exhibition: Marquee on the Paddock |
| 3.45-5.15 | Group A2 Subject Sections Meetings |
September 5th 15.45 - 17.15 Music Room
"Islamic Banking and current legal framework for dispute resolution"
2B. Iwa Salami (East London)
"EU financial regulatory framework: an inspiration for financial regulation in Africa"
2C. Clare Chambers (UWE)
"A real crime in a virtual world: discussing virtual money laundering"
September 5th 15.45 - 17.15 Howard Theatre
September 5th 15.45 - 17.15 Howard Bld Rec Rm
September 5th 15.45 - 17.15 Room H1
Commentators: Audrey Guinchard and Faye Wang
September 5th 15.45 - 17.15 Room MR4
September 5th 15.45 - 17.15 Butterfield Room
2A Theodore Konstadinides, (Surrey), 'Constitutional identity and membership in the EU' 2B Panos Stasinopoulus, (PhD candidate, King's College London) : 'Were the Laval and Viking cases correctly decided? A "citizenship lawyer's" point of view'
September 5th 15.45 - 17.15 Wilkins Room
Aid, trade and taboo: the place of indigenous traditional knowledge in development IP strategies: a Pacific perspective2B Celucolo Dludlu, (Queen Mary, University of London) Curbing the unintended consequences of patentability reforms in developing countries 2C Naomi Hawkins, (Exeter) A defence to patent infringement for genetic testing?
September 5th 15.45 - 17.15 Howard Bld Lec Rm
September 5th 13.45 - 17.15 Grace Howard Room
2A: Sascha Bachmann (Portsmouth) Nuremberg revisited - new threats to peace and the changing perception of the legacy of Nuremberg in the 21st century 2B: Lorie Charlesworth (Liverpool John Moores )
Legal Politics and War Crimes in Historical Perspective
2C: Onder Bakircioglu (Queens, Belfast) Just War in the Christian Tradition
September 5th 15.45 - 17.15 Room R4
"Offshore Petroleum Facility Safety Post Deepwater Horizon: Implications for Australia
and the United Kingdom" 2B Steven Tuxal (Kingston) and Beatriz Martinez Romera (Copenhagen):
"The IMO and maritime emissions: An investigation into the recent ICAO Resolutions on International Aviation Emissions and potential demonstrative effect of air transport on shipping"2B Beatriz Martinez Romero (Copenhagen) Legal aspects of the inclusion of international aviation and maritime transportation greenhouse gas emissions into global emission reduction targets: mapping the field.
September 5th 15.45 - 17.15 West Lodge
2A. "Affect and Legal Education: Emotion in Learning and Teaching the Law", Paul Maharg (Northumbria). 2B. "Instead of a Career: Work, Art and Love in University Law Schools", Anthony Bradney (Keele) 2C. "Can Litigators Let Go? The Role of Practitioner-supervisors in Clinical Legal Education Programmes", Sara Chandler (College of Law) 2D. "What do Academics Think and Feel about Quality?", Chris Maguire (BPP)
September 5th 15.45 - 17.15 Maitland
2B Simon Douglas, (Oxford) The Role of Possession in Property Law
September 5th 15.45 - 17.15 Annex
"Black holes and hollow promises: Limits of Anglo-American due process since 9/11"
2B Kyela Leakey (Queen Mary University):
"Leadership, law and discretion: mapping the powers of Chief Justices in three African
2B Ashley Savage (Northumbria):
"Toothless Tiger or a Very Powerful Somebody Else: The Service Complaints Commissioner and Service Personnel as whistleblowers.
September 5th 15.45 - 17.15 Room H2
'Normative Underpinnings of the Tax Discourse' 2B: Malcolm James (University of Wales Institute Cardiff) 'Smoke and mirrors? Critiquing the economic basis of tax law' 2C: Gianluigi Bizioli (University of Bergamo) 'Justification for Taxation: A Diachronic Analysis'
| 5.30-6.30 | (a) Early
Career Scholars' Panel, Howard Building,
Downing College, supported by Cambridge Law
Journal, including Meet the Editors (b) Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship session: Dr. Alan Bogg (Hertford College, Oxford) talks about his 2010 prize-winning book, Democratic Aspects of Trade Union Recognition |
| 6.30-7.30 | Reception, Marquee
on the Paddock Sponsored by the Cambridge Law Journal |
| 7.30 | Buffet dinner, Downing College Hall |
Tuesday 6th September
| 9.00-10.30 |
Group A3 Subject Sections Meetings |
September 6th 09.00 - 10.30 Music Room
"Harmonisation of International Secured Transactions Law: Time for Movement on Shipping"
3B. Tom Burns (Aberdeen)
"The Reform of the Shadow Banking Sector" 3C. Jingbo Zhang (Southampton)
"Banks' Duties on Rejection in the Documentary Credits under the UCP600"
September 6th 09.00 - 10.30 Howard Theatre
September 6th 09.00 - 10.30 Howard Bld Rec Rm
September 6th 09.00 - 10.30 Room H1
Commentators: Audrey Guinchard and Faye Wang
September 6th 09.00 - 10.30 Room MR4
September 6th 09.00 - 10.30 Butterfield Room
3A Caoimhin Macmaolain, (Trinity College Dublin), 'Ramifications of the EU/IMF loan to Ireland for Irish law and society' 3B Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, (Manchester), 'How revisiting fundamental concepts of Article 101 TFEU clarifies why the Court of Justice maintains its approach to Article 102, despite the Commission's new policy towards abuse of dominance' 3C Morten Hviid, and Andreas Stephan, ( East Anglia), 'Cover Pricing and the misuse of "Object' under Article 101 TFEU'
September 6th 09.00 - 10.30 Wilkins Room
September 6th 09.00 - 10.30 Howard Bld Lec Rm
September 6th 09.00 - 10.30 Grace Howard Room
September 6th 09.00 - 10.30 Room R4
"The Marine Insurance Broker's Personal Liability to Pay Premiums" 3B Kathleen Goddard (Plymouth):
"The impact of coffee houses on the establishment of major shipping and commercial
institutions in the City of London"
September 6th 09.00 - 10.30 West Lodge
3A Hadara Bar-Mor (Netanya Academic College, Israel) "The Philadelphia Declaration of the ILO and its Ramifications on the Changes in the Middle East." 3B. Francis Nii Nuertey Botchway (Qatar University) "Act of State doctrine" 3C Helen Kasem (Westminster). "The right to resistance under military occupation" 3D. Natalia Fiedziuk (Tilburg) "Putting Services of General Economic Interest out to Tender."
September 6th 09.00 - 10.30 Maitland
3B Valentina Vadi, (University of Maastricht) The Limits of Property: Environmental Health v. Investors' Rights in International Investment Law
September 6th 09.00 - 10.30 Annex
September 6th 09.00 - 10.30 Room H2
| 10.30-11.00 | Morning coffee and Publishers' Exhibition, Marquee on the Paddock |
| 11.00-12.30 | Plenary
1, Howard Theatre, Downing College: Lawyers and the political: politics, lawmaking, and governance. Panel including - the Hon. Mr. Justice Cranston (High Court judge and former Solicitor General) David Howarth (University of Cambridge, and formerly MP for Cambridge (Liberal Democrat)) the Rt. Hon. Theresa Villiers MP (a lawyer and currently a Government Minister (Conservative)) Matthew Parish (an international commercial lawyer with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Geneva, and commentator on the role of the international community in the formation and governance of states; formerly Head of the Legal Department in the Brcko office of the Office of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
| 12.30-1.30 | Light lunch and Publishers' Exhibition, Marquee on the Paddock |
| 1.30-3.00 | Group A4 Subject Sections Meetings |
September 6th 13.30 - 15.00 Music Room
"The Role of Law in Markets: from Industrial Revolution to Economic Dissolution" 4B Joanne P. Braithwaite (LSE)
"Insights from the s2(a)(iii) SDA Master Agreement litigation: Are some contracts 'too big to interpret'?"4C. Fred Cram (Bristol)
"Scouring the Shires? The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (as mended) and Frontline Policing"
September 6th 13.30 - 15.00 Howard Theatre
September 6th 13.30 - 15.00 Howard Bld Rec Rm
Panel Session: "Reforming the Insanity Defence" Panel members:
Professor David Ormerod (Law Commission);
Professor Gerry Maher (Edinburgh),
Dr Lisa Claydon (UWE),
Louise Kennefick (Cork).
Chair: Professor Ronnie Mackay
September 6th 13.30 - 15.00 Room H1
Legal Education, Conflicts of Law and Internet Regulations 4A Faye Fangfei Wang, ODR Simulation in Legal Education (funded by Nominet Trust) & Julia Hörnle (Queen Mary),
Experiences of Queen Mary LLM Distance Learning: ODR showcases 4B Stuart Weinstein and Charles Wild (Hertfordshire),
Teaching Online Dispute Resolution to Law Students - When Academic Literature Meets Reality 4C Jan Oster (King's),
Rethinking Shevill: Conceptualizing the EU Private International Law of Internet Torts 4D Chris Marsden (Essex),
Internet Co-Regulation: European Law, Regulatory Governance and Legitimacy in Cyberspace
Commentators: Julia Hönle and Faye Wang
September 6th 13.30 - 15.00 Room MR4
September 6th 13.30 - 15.00 Butterfield Room
4A Michael Wardhaugh, (Newcastle), 'A normative approach to the criminalization of cartel activity'. 4B Franco Rizzuto, (Edge Hill), 'Accessing the "corporate statements" of leniency applicants held by public enforcers: the insurmountable barrier for alleged victims of EU competition law infringements' 4C Sebastian Peyer, ( East Anglia), 'Injunctive relief and private anti-trust enforcement'
September 6th 13.30 - 15.00 Wilkins Room
Re-visiting 'Trade mark use' - A Japanese Perspective
September 6th 13.30 - 15.00 Howard Bld Lec Rm
September 6th 13.30 - 15.00 Grace Howard Room
September 6th 13.30 - 15.00 Room R4
"The Effect of a Jurisdiction Agreement upon a consignee" 4B Sebastian Meyer (Swansea):
"Two Goods Make One Bad"
September 6th 13.30 - 15.00 West Lodge
4B. Harriet Samuels (Westminster) "Law and the Big Society" 4C. TBC 4D. TBC
September 6th 13.30 - 15.00 Maitland
4B Peter Sparkes (Southampton)
" Why is Land Law so Complex?"
4B Plenary Session
" Postgraduate research in law, the role of the PhD and supervisory experiences"
September 6th 13.30 - 15.00 Annex
September 6th 13.30 - 15.00 Room H2
| 3.00-3.30 | Afternoon tea and Publishers' Exhibition, Marquee on the Paddock |
| 4.00-5.30 | Plenary
2, Room LG 17, Law Faculty, Sidgwick Site: The roles of lawyers in government. Panel including - Sir Stephen Laws KCB, QC, First Parliamentary Counsel David Seymour, Legal Adviser to the Home Office Sir Michael Wood, formerly Legal Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| 5.30-7.00 | Reception, Atrium, Law Faculty Building, and tours of the Building |
| 7.30 for 8.00 | Conference Gala Dinner, Downing College Hall. Speaker Mr Justice Lloyd Jones. |
Wednesday 7th September
| 9.15-10.45 | SLS Council and Annual General Meeting, Howard Theatre, Downing |
| 10.45-11.15 | Morning coffee and Publishers' Exhibition, Marquee on the Paddock |
| 11.15-12.45 | Group B1 Subject Section meetings |
September 7th 11.15 - 12.45 Grace Howard Room
1A Aoife Nolan (Durham)
'Rights, Obligations and Vulnerability: Corporations and the Poor'1B David Mead (East Anglia) Police decision making in relation to public protest. 1C Ruvi Ziegler (Lincoln College, Oxford) The disproportionate nature of prisoners' disenfranchisement.
September 7th 11.15 - 12.45 Maitland
September 7th 11.15 - 12.45 Howard Theatre
Rob Bradgate, ( Sheffield)
Zoe Ollerenshaw, (Sheffield)
Nick Johnson, Senior Partner, Glaisyers Solicitors LLP, Manchester
Sarah Young, Solicitor, Glaisyers Solicitors LLP, Manchester
Keith Rowley, William S. Boyd Professor of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, US
September 7th 11.15 - 12.45 Music Room
1A Jens Scherpe
'Freedom, Fairness and Foreign Elements - The Future of Family Property'
1B Jo Miles,
'Legal Aid Reform'
1C Rebecca Probert (Warwick)
'The politics of law reform: the case of cohabitation'
September 7th 11.15 - 12.45 Room MR4
'The Legal Characterisation of Armed Conflicts'
September 7th 11.15 - 12.45 Howard Bld Rec Rm
September 7th 11.15 - 12.45 Room H2
September 7th 11.15 - 12.45 Room R4
Issues in the Disclosure of Sources and Information:
1A Damian Carney (Portsmouth) 'Truth and the Unnamed Source'. 1B Lawrence McNamara (Reading)'Countering Terrorism: Journalists' Legal Obligations to Disclose Information to the Authorities'. 1C Neil Richards (Washington University in St. Louis) 'A Theory of Intellectual Privacy'.
September 7th 11.15 - 12.45 Howard Bld Lec Rm
September 7th 11.15 - 12.45 Room H1
1B Forough Ramezankhah (Keele ) "Asylum Claims versus Asylum Stories: How Testimonies are Presented?"
September 7th 11.15 - 12.45 West Lodge
"Access to environmental justice in England and Wales: Funding representation for court reviews of administrative action"1D Jenny Rawstone (SRA)
"QLTS: what have the doctors ever done for us?"
September 7th 11.15 - 12.45 Wilkins Room
1A K. Malleson & L. Barmes (QMUL) I. Simler (Barrister at Law) R. Hunter (Kent) L. Moran (Birkbeck) H. Sommerlad (Leicester)
September 7th 11.15 - 12.45 Annex
September 7th 11.15 - 12.45 Butterfield Room
1B Donal Nolan (Oxford): "Negligence and Human Rights"
| 12.45-1.45 | Light lunch and Publishers' Exhibition, Marquee on the Paddock |
| 1.45-3.15 | Group B2 Subject Sections Meetings |
September 7th 13.45 - 15.15 Grace Howard Room
2C Ronah McQuigg, (Queen's University, Belfast). The Impact of the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities on the Courts of Victoria.
September 7th 13.45 - 15.15 Maitland
September 7th 13.45 - 15.15 Howard Theatre
2A Séverine Saintier, ( Sheffield) Caroline Lardaud, (University of Lyon)
The Protection for the Legitimate Expectations: Exporting the Concept Behind Promissory Estoppel to French Contract Law?
2B Sean Thomas, ( Leicester)
Does the Right to Reject Under Sale of Good Act 1979 s30 provide a right to repudiate?
2C Laura Macgregor,( Edinburgh)
The Nature of Agency Law2D . Larry A. DiMatteo (University of Florida), Cycle theory of legal development: Of Maine and Issacs.
September 7th 13.45 - 15.15 Music Room
2A Annika Newnham & Maebh Harding, ( Portsmouth), 'Is Shared Residence the new Black? A Pilot Study of the use of Shared Residence Orders at County Court level' 2B Stephen Gilmore, (King's College London), 'Who's influencing the outcome? A critical examination of the use of expert evidence in child law cases' 2C Sonia Harris-Short, (Birmingham), 'Facing the Consequences of Inequality: Family Life in the UK and the Shared Residence Debate.'
September 7th 13.45 - 15.15 Room MR4
September 7th 13.45 - 15.15 Howard Bld Rec Rm
September 7th 13.45 - 15.15 Room H2
September 7th 13.45 - 15.15 Room R4
September 7th 13.45 - 15.15 Howard Bld Lec Rm
September 7th 13.45 - 15.15 Room H1
2B Jean-Pierre Gauci (King's College, London) "It takes two to tango: law and politics in the protection of trafficked persons"
2C Douglas Cubie (University College, Cork) "The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: what is the appropriate international legal framework for humanitarian responses to natural and human-made disasters?"
September 7th 13..45 - 15..15 West Lodge
2A. Vincenzo Bavoso (Kingston) "SPV Governance and Fiduciary Duties"
2B. Georgina Tsagas (Queen Mary) "All companies are equal, but some companies are more equal than others" An ominous fate for the 13th Directive on Takeover Bids."
September 7th 13.45 - 15.15 Wilkins Room
2A B.Willenbacher (Leibniz University): 'Emile Durkheim, French feminists and the sociological method in the Third Republic' 2A D. McCallum (Social Sciences & Psychology Victoria University, Melbourne): 'Law's frailties and the culture of ambivalence' 2B S. Mercer, C. Rogers & C. Sandford-Couch, (Northumbria ): 'Ethics in the trial of Oscar Wilde'
September 7th 13.45 - 15.15 Annex
"The tracing puzzle and its implications for proprietary claims" 2B Peter Devonshire (Auckland)
"The nature of pecuniary awards for interference with property rights"
September 7th 13.45 - 15.15 Butterfield Room
2B Phillip Morgan (Southampton): "Civil Liability of Authorities and Agencies for Abuse Committed by Foster Parents"
2C James Goudkamp (Oxford): "The Young Report: An Australian Perspective"
| 3.15-3.45 | Afternoon tea and Publishers' Exhibition, Marquee on the Paddock |
| 3.45-5.30 | Plenary
3, Howard Theatre, Downing: Turning politics into law: law reform, statutes and their interpretation. Joint session with the Statute Law Society. Panel including - the Hon. Mr. Justice Sales Professor David Ormerod (Law Commissioner) Professor Stefan Vogenauer This session will incorporate a presentation on the Statute Law Society's DVD of interviews with actors in the legislative process, Making Legislation, with some discussion of teaching legislation as an academic subject |
| 6.00-7.30 | Reception, Fitzwilliam Museum |
| 8.00 | Buffet Dinner, Downing College Hall |
Thursday 8th September
| 9.30-11.00 | Group B3 Subject Sections Meetings |
September 8th 09.30- 11.00 Grace Howard Room
September 8th 09.30 - 11.00 Maitland
3C. Wangwei Lin ( Manchester) "A UK and PRC perspective on the regulation of takeover defences: A proposal for reform"
September 8th 09.30 - 11.00 Howard Theatre
3A George Siedel,( Thurnau Professor of Business Law, University of Michigan)
Proactive contracting
3B Andrew Dyson, (Oxford )
Mitigation in the Law of Contract
3C Masood Ahmed, ( Birmingham City)
Construing Commercial Contract: Time for Reform
3D Jarrod Wong, (Associate Professor of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law)
The US Supreme Court and the Federal Arbitration Act: A case Study of Constructive Intent and the Limits of a Consent-Based Theory of Contract Law
September 8th 09.30 - 11.00 Music Room
3A Dianne Scullion, (Liverpool Law School), 'The Diversity of Experience: Child Trafficking and the International Legal Trafficking Framework' 3B Ruth Lamont, (Liverpool), 'Scoping European Family Law: Free Movement of Persons, Child Abduction and Relocation' 3C John Caldwell, (University of Canterbury, NZ), 'International relocation - what's the best move for the Courts?'
September 8th 09.30 - 11.00 Room MR4
September 8th 09.30 - 11.00 Howard Bld Rec Rm
September 8th 09.30 - 11.00 Room H2
September 8th 09.30 - 11.00 Room R4
September 8th 09.30 - 11.00 Howard Bld Lec Rm
September 8th 09.30 - 11.00 Room H1
3B Sonia Morano-Foadi (Oxford Brookes ) "Third country nationals versus EU citizens: discrimination based on nationality
and the Equality Directives"
3C Gill Wigglesworth "A legal perspective on the Roma problem in France"
September 8th 09.30-11.00 West Lodge
3A. Janet Ulph (Leicester) "Wrongful Dispossession of Cultural Objects: the UK Market and the Law",
3B. Charlotte Woodhead (Warwick) "Defining the impossible: the concept of morality in the decisions of the Spoliation Advisory Panel"
3C. Mohamed Salem Abou El Farag (Qatar University) "The protection of knowledge-based assets in the Arab world"
3D. Lucy Barnes (Kingston) "Laughing all the way to the Bank(sy): Situating Graffiti in the Built Environment"
September 8th 09.30 - 11.00 Wilkins Room
September 8th 09.30 - 11.00 Annex
"Restitution from Public Authorities" 3B Niamh Connolly (Dublin)
"Unlawful exactions by the state: the intersection of constitutional law and unjust enrichment"
September 8th 09.30 - 11.00 Butterfield Room
3B Zeldine O'Brien (Trinity) "Help, I Need Somebody! Causation, Foreseeability and the Law of Rescue"
3C Dorota Leczykiewicz (Oxford): "The Proof of Causation in Sienkiewicz v Grief: Science, Principle or Policy?"
| 11.00-11.30 | Morning coffee and Publishers' Exhibition, Marquee on the Paddock |
| 11.30-1.00 | Group B4 Subject Sections Meetings |
September 8th 11.30 - 13.00 Grace Howard Room
September 8th 11.30 - 13.00 Maitland
4C. Andrew Johnston (University of Queensland) "Reflexive Corporate Social Responsibility and Externalities"
September 8th 11.30 - 13.00 Howard Theatre
4A Nancy Kim, (Visiting Professor, Ohio State University)
The Role of Contract Design
4B Christine Riefa, ( Brunel)
Latest Development Concerning Online Auctions in the Proposal for a Directive on Consumer Rights: A Better Deal for Consumers?
4C Eboni Nelson,( Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina)
From the School House to the Poor House: The Credit C ard Act's Failure to Adequately Protect Young Consumers
4D Piotr Tereszkiewicz, (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
Pre-Contractual duty to Warn in Contracts Relating to Financial Transactions: A Comparative and European Perspective
September 8th 11.30 - 13.00 Music Room
4A Veronica McInerney,( PhD Candidate, Limerick), 'Artificial Reproductive Technology and the Significance of the Italian Law 40/2004 from an Irish context' 4B Debra Wilson, (University of Canterbury, NZ), 'Reconsidering cloning as an acceptable form of artificial reproductive technology' 4C Aisling Parkes, (University College Cork), 'Listening to the Voices of the Vulnerable - A Comparative Perspective on Children with Disabilities and the right to be heard in Family Law Proceedings'
September 8th 11.30 - 13.00 Room MR4
September 8th 11.30 - 13.00 Howard Bld Rec Rm
September 8th 11.30 - 13.00 Room H2
September 8th 11.30 - 13.00 Room R4
September 8th 11.30 - 13.00 Howard Bld Lec Rm
September 8th 11.30 - 13.00 Room H1
4B Zelia Gallo (London School of Economics) "The Legal Vice: Punishing Migrants in Italy"
September 8th 11.30-13.00 West Lodge
4a. Bridgette Clark (East Anglia) Arguments for and Against the Sperm Donor-Conceived Children's Rights to know Their Biological Origins" 4b. Peter de Cruz (Liverpool John Moores ) "Motherhood, money and a Baby: Parenting in the postmodernist world? Comparative reflections on surrogacy."
4c. Tracey E Chan (National University of Singapore) "Legal and Regulatory Responses to Innovative Therapy"
September 8th 11.30 - 13.00 Wilkins Room
4A G. Ferris & N. Johnson (Nottingham Trent) 'Law in politics - the ethics of lobbying'
4B Donald Nicolson (Strathclyde) Producing Professionals: the Impact of Law Schools and Law Clinics on the Ethical Attitudes of Prospective Lawyers.
4C L. Webley ( Westminster) 'Regulating for equality and diversity in the legal profession in England and Wales'
September 8th 11.30 - 13.00 Annex
September 8th 11.30 - 13.00 Butterfield Room
4B David Campbell (Durham) "Gathering the Water: Abuse of Rights After the Recognition of Government Failure"
| 1.00-2.00 | Light lunch |
| 2.00-3.30 | Panel: Dignity,
politics and the law. Convened by Dr. Catherine Dupre, University of Exeter, and including the Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Munby, Chairman of the Law Commission. |
| 3.30 | Conference ends |