TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
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THE ROME II REGULATION ON THE LAW APPLICATION TO THE LAW APPLICBLE TO NON-CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS: A NEW TORT LITIGATION REGIME
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Date: Saturday, 21 June 2008
Venue: Hamilton Building, Trinity College Dublin
The traditional, somewhat confusing rules relating to international tort litigation have recently been replaced by a European measure, the Rome II Regulation on the Law applicable to non-contractual obligations, which applies to litigation relating to torts committed anywhere in the world. Practitioners need to be aware of its radical implications for practice across the entire range of torts, from traffic accidents to employer’s liability, product liability and professional negligence claims. The Regulation also contains new rules relating to the applicable law on damages, a crucial aspect of every tort claim.
The Law School of Trinity College Dublin is holding a conference on these new developments on Saturday 21 June. It has assembled a world-class team of speakers, who include leading experts from Ireland, Britain, Europe, the United States of America and Canada.
This is an important conference which offers legal practitioners an unparalleled level of expertise and guidance as to the effects of the new law on legal practice.
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9:00
Rome II: A Parliamentary Tale
Diana Wallis, MEP9:30
Rome II: A True Piece of Community Law
Prof. Dr. Johan Meeusen10:00
Has the Forum Lost its Grip?
Dr Janeen Carruthers10:30
Tea/Coffee Break
10:45
Rome II: Will It Prevent Forum Shopping and Take Account of the
Consquences of Choice of Law?
Russell J. Weintraub11:15
The Scope of ‘Non-Contractual Obligations’
Andrew Scott11:45
The Significance of Close Connection
Richard Fentiman12:15
The Role of Party Autonomy Under Rome II
Prof. Thomas Kadner Graziano12:45
Lunch Break
1:30
The Application of Multiple Laws under Rome II
Dr. Alex Mills2:00
Article 4 and Traffic Accidents
Prof. Jan Von Hein2:30
Product Liability (Article 5)
Prof. Peter Stone2:45
Remedies and the Rome II Regulation
Adam Rushworth3:15
Tea/Coffee Break
3:45
Environmental Damage (Article 7)
Prof. Dr. Michael Bogdan4:15
Rome II and Choice of Law for Unjust Enrichment
Professor Stephen Pitel4:45
The Limits of Rome – Global Litigation of Tort Claims
Dr. Gernot Biehler5:15
Rome II, Jurisdiction and Choice of Law: Implications for Irish Tort Litigation
Dr. Liz Heffernan6:00
Conference Ends, followed by a wine reception in the Law School (House 39)
The right to substitute and rearrange lectures is reserved
John Ahern is a graduate in Law at Trinity College Dublin, where he is completing a doctoral thesis on choice of law in tort. His teaching interests include Tort and EU Law and he has published on renvoi and tort ([2007] ISLR 105).
Dr. Gernot Biehler is Lecturer in Law in Trinity College Dublin. His interests comprise international law, both public and private. A former delegate to UNIDROIT and the Hague Conference on International and Private Law, his focus is on jurisdiction and procedures.
Prof. William Binchy is Regius Professor of Laws and Head of the Law School at Trinity College Dublin. He is a member of the Irish Human Rights Commission. He is author of Irish Conflicts of Law and co-author (with the Hon. Mr. Justice Bryan McMahon) of The Law of Torts (3rd ed.). He has represented Ireland at the Hague Conference on Private International Law in the preparation of the Conventions and Marriage and Inter-country Adoption.
Prof. Michael Bogdan is Professor of International and Comparative Private Law and Procedure at the University of Lund, Sweden. He has published extensively on public and private international law and EU law.
Dr. Janeen Carruthers is Reader in Conflict of Laws, School of Law, University of Glasgow, with a particular interest in the interaction of Private International Law and Property Law. She is widely published in the area, most recently co-authoring International Private Law in Scotland, now in its second edition.
Richard Fentiman is Reader in Private International Law, Queens’ College, Cambridge. He gave expert advice to the House of Lords on the Rome II proposal. He is the author of Foreign Law in English Courts: Pleading, Proof and Choice of Law (OUP, 1998). His textbook on International Commercial Litigation is scheduled for publication later this year by Oxford University Press.
Prof. Thomas Kadner Graziano is Professor of Law at the University of Geneva and Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter. He has been a Fellow of the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law in Vienna since 2005. His research interests include European and international private law, and German and Anglo-American private law.
Dr. Liz Heffernan lectures at the Law School, Trinity College Dublin and has previously taught at Washington and Lee University, and University College Dublin. Her doctoral research at the University of Chicago focused on comparative federal court systems. She is a former law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Prof. Johan Meeusen is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Antwerp specialising in European Union and Private International Law. He is also a Visiting Professor at Université Nancy 2, France. He is widely published in the field of Private International Law and is a member of the Belgian Group for Private International Law, charged by the Minister of Justice with the preparation of the Belgian Statute on Private International Law.
Dr. Alex Mills is Slaughter and May Lecturer in Law, Selwyn College, Cambridge. His research interests include Private and Public International Law. He has published nationally and internationally in both fields.
Prof. Stephen Pitel is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario. His teaching and research is focused on international commercial litigaiton, civil procedure, torts, unjust enrichment and legal ethics. He has received several teaching awards and is co-author, editor or co-editor of six books published since 2003 including Litigating Conspiracy: An Analysis of Competition Class Acts and Emerging Issues in Tort Law. His articles on private international law have been published in the Canadian Bar Review, Canadian Business Law Journal, Journal of Private International Law and Advocates’ Quarterly.
Adam Rushworth is a Senior College Lecturer in Private Law at Keble College, Oxford. His research and teaching interests are centred around the conflict of laws, international trade and contract law. In particular, he is currently writing a D.Phil. on 'Commercial Remedies and the Conflict of Laws'. He has co-authored (with Andrew Scott) a commentary on the Rome II Regulation which will be published in the 2008 Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly.
Andrew Scott has been a Prize Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford since 2004. His research focuses on private international law, and in particular questions of jurisdiction and choice of law in civil and commercial matters. He is currently writing a DPhil on the interpretive principles that inspire the Brussels I Regulation. He has recently co-authored (with Adam Rushworth) a commentary on the Rome II Regulation, [2008] LMCLQ forthcoming.
Prof. Peter Stone of the University of Essex teaches Private International Law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is Director of Graduate Research at the University and has published widely on the subject, including The Conflict of Laws, (Longman), 1995 and Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments in Europe, (Longman, 1998).
Prof. Jan Von Hein is Professor of Law at the University of Trier. He was formerly senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law Hamburg. His research has focused on private international law and European corporate law. He served as the Joseph Story Research Fellow at Harvard Law School. He has published numerous law review articles, mainly on private international law, corporate law and civil procedure.
Diana Wallis MEP is a Vice President of the European Parliament. She has authored a number of Internal Market Committee Reports, including choice of law rules on non-contractual obligations (Rome II), maintenance obligations and European Contract Law. She studied law in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland.
Prof. Russell J. Weintraub is Professor of Law and holder of the Powell Chair Emeritus at the University of Texas, Austin. He is widely published in Conflict of Laws and International Litigation and Arbitration, most recently his Commentary on the Conflict of Laws now in it’s 5th edition. He has played a particular role in the formulation of the Rome II Regulation following his address to the European Union Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Mark, with a number of his suggestions incorporated into the Regulation.
FEES* €300 per person. Group Rates €550 for 2; €800 for 3; €1000 for 4; €1,200 for 5.
£235 per person. Group Rates £430 for 2; £630 for 3; £785 for 4; £945 for 5.
Reduced rate: €240/ £190 (stg) per person are available to Trainee Solicitors, Legal Executives and Barristers in their first five years of practice. This rate also applies to members of the Irish Centre for European Law, in association with which the Law School is holding the conference. All fees should be made payable to TCD NO. 1 Account.
Fees are inclusive of tea/coffee, lunch breaks and conference materials.
Reservations: To reserve your place please complete and return the enclosed form (sterling form) to the address below.
CPD HOURS : 8 (Group Study) Points/Hours. Certificates of attendance will be forwarded after the seminar.
* Fees are inclusive of conference materials and tea/coffee and lunch breaks.
All cheques should be made payable to TCD No. 1 Account