Virtual conference

Programme

International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law
14–15 July 2021 · Virtual Meeting


Session I

Professor Stephanie Ben-Ishai
Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada
The price elasticity for bankruptcy: Estimating a demand curve for financial relief

Professor Gerard McCormack
University of Leeds, United Kingdom
UK business restructurings and international recognition post Brexit and post Covid?

Professor Ignacio Tirado
Secretary-General, UNIDROIT
The times they are a’changing: New paradigms in the regulation of business distress

Professor Janet Walker
Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada
Going virtual for good? – Prospects for online hearings in the post-pandemic world

Discussion & Q&A


Session II

Professor Edward Janger
Brooklyn Law School, United States
Global Erie and its limits: Channelling jurisdictional competition for procedure

Professor Ross Cranston
London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Online dispute resolution in the Commercial Court (London) and arbitration

Professor Edgardo Muñoz
Universidad Panamericana, Mexico
COVID-19 related public and private measures as a type of impediment under the CISG?

Professor Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell
University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Fighting disinformation and misinformation in times of pandemic

Discussion & Q&A


Session III

Professor Charles Booth
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, United States
Insolvency law reform in Asia: Responses to COVID-19

Professor Kunihiro Nakata
Ryukoku University, Japan
New regulation on digital platforms in Japan

Professor Arie Reich
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Should forum selection clauses in agreements of international websites be enforced? – A proposed new model

Professor Sandra Annette-Booysen
National University of Singapore
Protecting customers from payment scams

Final Discussion & Q&A