Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
‘New Trends in Costs and Funding of Civil Justice’: online seminars
The financing of litigation is at the heart of securing access to justice, and the seminars aim to discuss developments in costs and funding in Europe and at the global level. From December 2021 – June 2022, the team of the Vici project ‘Affordable Access to Justice’ at Erasmus School of Law will organize an […]
‘Great Debates in Legal History: okay, and what is in it for us?’
“What can we learn from the ‘Great Debates’ in legal history? Or more specific, what could the participants of the Workshop Ius Commune in the Making: Great Debates in the History of Law (25 November 2021) learn about these debates? What shaped and still shapes great debates? Institutions are crucial. The first panel contained a […]
Call for Papers: ‘Torts Law Reform in Asia and Beyond’ – CCTL Obligations Lab Asia Conference
The CCTL Obligations Lab Asia at CUHK LAW will hold an online conference on ‘Torts Law Reform in Asia and Beyond’ on Friday, 13 May 2022, 2 to 7:30pm (Hong Kong time). The conference explores how jurisdictions in Asia and beyond, both through case law and statutory reform, respond to the constant need to keep […]
‘Judges and lawyers call for curbs on misuse of SLAPPs’
“Senior judges and lawyers on a panel chaired by former Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger have called for legal reforms to curb ‘strategic lawsuits against public participation’ (SLAPPs). Detailed reform proposals from the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom were launched in London last week, including a pre-action protocol for SLAPPs and […]
‘Conference report: “The Fashion Marketplace: Law and Policy”’
“… The event was, as ever, chaired by PermaKat Prof Dr Eleonora Rosati together with Giulia Gasparin, and the calibre and range of the speakers was bound to result in lively discussion; with panellists from marketplaces such as Amazon, Zalando and Etsy engaging in discussion with brand and consumer voices as well as private practice […]
‘Lloyd v Google – Supreme Court judgment Webinar’
“The Supreme Court’s judgment in Lloyd v Google is to be handed down next Wednesday. However the appeal is decided, the judgment of the Supreme Court will constitute a watershed moment in the development of the law on data protection, both within and beyond the field of data protection class actions …” (more) [Panopticon, 4 […]
‘M-EPLI Roundtable: Punitive Damages’
“What is the perspective of several countries on punitive damages in and outside of Europe? What issues arise from the recognition and enforcement of foreign (mostly US) punitive damages judgments? How do different countries view the public policy exception? These questions and more were among the topics that were addressed during the M-EPLI Roundtable on […]
Call for Papers: CCTL Obligations Lab Asia Conference – ‘Torts Law Reform in Asia and Beyond’, 13 May 2022
The world is going through a period of rapid changes and serious upheaval. The law of torts (or civil wrongs) provides mechanisms to maintain social standards and redress wrongdoing. While torts law must go with the times to maintain its vitality and relevance, adaptation is notoriously difficult and sometimes lagging behind social, economic or cultural […]
‘Trusts and Statutes in the Australian Federation’: Matthew Harding, PLRG Public Seminar, Zoom, 22 November 2021
This paper explores the interaction of statute law with judge-made trusts law against the backdrop of the Australian federal system of government. The speaker will highlight ways in which this interaction brings into clearer focus the distinctive policy objectives that underpin judge-made trusts law, as well as ways in which judge-made trusts law has identified […]
‘Towards a New Legal Framework for AI: An Australian Perspective’: Jeannie Marie Paterson, Zoom, 3 November 2021
Australia’s legal response to the challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) currently rests on three key elements: ‘soft law’ codes of AI ethics, data privacy legislation (currently undergoing reform including to promote greater data protection, potentially modelled on the GDPR), and reliance on general ‘principles-based’ legislation, with its built in flexibility for adapting to new scenarios. […]