The XIXth International-Congress of Comparative Law

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)

With Thanks to the Congress Sponsors:

University of Vienna,

Swiss Institute of Comparative Law

and

Pan European University Bratislava

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 - 1^st 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	U 10 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 10 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 18 - 1^st basement floor Session 1: IV.B.2. Constitutional Law: "Foreign precedents in constitutional litigation" – Marie-Claire PONTHOREAU Chair: David CLARK
	U 10 - 1^st basement floor Session 2: II.A.3. Civil Law: "Disgorgement of profits" – Ewoud HONDIUS / André JANSSEN Chair: Stathis BANAKAS
	U 11 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 18 - 1^st basement floor Session 1: III.A.1. Commercial Law: "The law of close corporations" - Holger FLEISCHER Chair: Rafael Mariano MANÓVIL
	U 10 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 18 - 1^st basement floor Session 1: I.B.2. General Legal Theory: "Judicial rulings with prospective effect" – Eva STEINER Chair: Gustavo TEPEDINO
	U 10 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 10 - 1^st basement floor 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
	U 11 - 1^st basement floor 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
	U 18 - 1^st basement floor Session 3: III.C. Labour Law: "Whistleblowing" - Gregor THÜSING Chair: John REITZ
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30	U 18 - 1^st basement floor Special Sem I "Jurisprudence of Finance" offered by Specht Böhm Moderator: Judith SCHACHERREITER Speakers: Gunnar HEINSOHN & Leopold SPECHT
	U 10 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 18 - 1^st basement floor Special Sem II "Emerging Forms of Finance" offered by Specht Böhm Moderator: Christiane WENDEHORST Speakers: Ingo BRAUN & Tamara LOTHIAN
	U 10 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 11 - 1^st basement floor 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 systems“ – ISDC 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	U 11 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 18 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 10 - 1^st basement floor Session 1: V.A. Penal Law: "Counter-terrorism law" – Kent ROACH Chair: Ulrich SIEBER
	U 18 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 10 - 1^st basement floor 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
	U 18 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 10 - 1^st basement floor Session 1: IV.C.1. Human Rights: "Applicable religious rules according to the law of the State" – Silvio FERRARI Chair: Marek SAFJAN U 18 - 1^st basement floor Session 2: III.A.3. Commercial Law: "Personal guarantees between commercial law and consumer protection" - Andreas SCHWARTZE Chair: Silvia FERRERI
	U 11 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 18 - 1^st basement floor Session 1: III.B. Intellectual Property: "License contracts, free software and creative commons" – Axel METZGER Chair: Joost BLOM
	U 10 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 11 - 1^st basement floor Session 1: IV.C.1. Human Rights: "Social and economic rights as fundamental rights" – Kryzysztof Mariusz WOJTYCZEK Chair: Camelia TOADER
	U 18 - 1^st basement floor Session 2: VI. Computers: "Secondary liability of service providers" – Graeme DINWOODIE Chair: Toshiyuki KONO U 10 - 1^st basement floor Session 3: V.B. Criminal Procedure: "Undercover investigations" - David CHILSTEIN Chair: Nora DEMLEITNER
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30	U 18 - 1^st basement floor Session 1: II.A.4. Civil Law: "Contractualisation of family law" - Frederik SWENNEN Chair: Maarit JÄNTERÄ-JAREBORG
	U 10 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 10 - 1^st basement floor Session 1: II.C.2. Civil Procedure: "The organisation of legal professions" - Martin HENSSLER Chair: Jorge Sánchez CORDERO
	U 18 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 18 - 1^st basement floor Session 1: I.D. Legal Education: "The internationalisation of legal education" – William VAN CAENEGEM / Christophe JAMIN Chair: Sjef VAN ERP
	U 10 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 10 - 1^st basement floor Session 1: II.A.1. Civil Law: "The influence of human rights and basic rights in private law" – Verica TRSTENJAK Chair: Susan KIEFEL
	U 18 - 1^st basement floor 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	U 10 - 1^st basement floor Christiane WENDEHORST, vice-president of ELI : "The European Law Institute – Vision and Activities"
11:15 - 12:45	U 10 - 1^st basement floor 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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