International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law
14-15 July 2021 / Virtual meeting
Opening Address: Professor Orkun Akseli (Durham Law School, UK) / Watch
Session 1: Chair – Professor Benjamin Geva (Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada) / Watch
Wednesday 14 July: 15.00-16.30 CEST
- Professor Stephanie Ben-Ishai (Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada) - The price elasticity for bankruptcy: Estimating a demand curve for financial relief / Watch
- Professor Gerard McCormack (University of Leeds, UK) - UK business restructurings and international recognition post Brexit and post Covid? / Watch
- Professor Ignacio Tirado (Secretary-General, UNIDROIT) - The times they are a’changing: new paradigms in the regulation of business distress / Watch
- Professor Janet Walker (Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada) - Going virtual for good? – Prospects for online hearings in the post-pandemic world / Watch
- Q&A / Watch
Session 2: Chair – Professor Ingeborg Schwenzer (Swiss International Law School, Switzerland) / Watch
Wednesday 14 July: 17.00-18.30 CEST
- Professor Edward Janger (Brooklyn Law School, USA) - Global Erie and its limits: Channelling jurisdictional competition for procedure / Watch
- Professor Ross Cranston (London School of Economics, UK) - Online dispute resolution in the Commercial Court (London) and arbitration / Watch
- Professor Edgardo Munoz (Universidad Panamericana, Mexico) - COVID-19 related public andhttps://youtu.be/umq6EbUa2v0 private measures as a type of impediment under the CISG? / Watch
- Professor Teresa Rodriguez de las Heras Ballell (University Carlos III, Spain) - Fighting disinformation and misinformation in times of pandemic: social networks' policies, platform liability, and legal response / Watch
- Q&A / Watch
Session 3: Chair – Professor Michael Bridge (National University of Singapore) / Watch
Thursday 15 July: 09.00-10.30 CEST
- Professor Charles Booth (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA) - Insolvency law reform in Asia: Responses to COVID-19
- Professor Kunihiro Nakata (Ryukoku University, Japan) - New regulation on digital platform in Japan. / Watch
- Professor Arie Reich (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) – Should forum selection clauses in agreements of international websites be enforced? – A proposed new model / Watch
- Professor Sandra Annette-Booysen (National University of Singapore) - Protecting customers from payment scams / Watch
- Q&A / Watch
Closing Address: Prof. Arie Reich (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) / Watch
