Date: 29Apr 2014 SYNOPSIS: Fears of surveillance across borders are driving nations to cut off their countries with Berlin Walls for data, threatening to break apart the...
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Conference and Seminars, Corporate and Financial Law, Financial Regulation, Seminar, Taxation Law
Prof. Catherine Schenk: The Foundations of Hong Kong’s Banking Regulation and Supervision-Challenges of Internationalisation in the 1970s and 1980s
Date: 29Apr 2014 SYNOPSIS: Hong Kong’s banking system has historically been prone to repeated crises that prompted slow and piecemeal regulatory responses. Hong Kong’s...
Chinese Law, Human Rights, Law and Technology and Intellectual Property, Public and Constitutional Law
Dr Rogier Creemers: The Privilege of Speech and New Media in China
Date: 09Apr 2014 SYNOPSIS: Even though freedom of speech is part of China’s Constitution, it has never been consistently and coherently implemented in China. The...
Conference and Seminars, Human Rights, Law and Medical ethics
Prof Eric M. Meslin: Data Sharing in Health and Science-Something to Fear or Embrace?
Date: 08Apr 2014 SYNOPSIS: In 1969 Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan said: “The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.”...
Arbitration & Mediation, Conference and Seminars
Mr Trip Barthel M.A.: Affirmative Facilitation-The Role of Positive Psychology in Conflict Resolution
Date: 02Apr 2014 SYNOPSIS: Happiness has been a high profile subject over the last decade with books like Emotional Intelligence, practices like Positive Psychology and...
Arbitration & Mediation, Chinese Law, Conference and Seminars
Prof Thomas J. Stipanowich & Prof Jack J. Coe: American Developments in International Arbitration / Investment Arbitration
Date: 01Apr 2014 SYNOPSIS: Professor Stipanowich has recently been central to two surveys conducted in the arbitration world: one canvasses Fortune 1000 companies about...
Conference and Seminars, Family Law, Law and Medical ethics, Tort
Dr Vera Lucia Raposo: 11 Wrongful actions – The rights and wrongs of wrongful birth and life actions
Date: 28Mar 2014 SYNOPSIS: With modern techniques of pre-natal diagnosis it is possible to predict and detect some maladies before birth and even before conception...
Criminal Law, Human Rights, International and Comparative law, Practice and Procedure, Public and Constitutional Law
Eduard Ivanov: Legal Regulations for Countering Corruption in the Russian Federation
Date: 25Mar 2014 SYNOPSIS: In the period 2012 – 2013 Russia adopted important amendments to its anti-corruption laws. In this presentation, the speaker will give a...
Commerial Law, Corporate and Financial Law, Financial Regulation, Taxation Law
Prof Judith Freedman CBE: Business Tax: Public Debate and Future Trends
Date: 24Mar 2014 SYNOPSIS: Business taxation is at the heart of the political agenda. The 2014 G20 agenda notes that “in recent years international tax laws have failed...
Conference and Seminars, Human Rights, Public and Constitutional Law
Christopher Forsyth: Some Recent Developments in Judicial Review in the Common Law World
Date: 24Mar 2014 SYNOPSIS: This seminar will deal with the following cutting edge issues (i) the survival of Wednesbury as a ground of judicial review; (2)...