Transnational Commercial Leasing Law Project - in association with AWG
Trinity College Law School
Welcome
About
AWG through its Irish Contact Group, and in association with the School of Law, established a transnational commercial and leasing law project (the project) effective 1 September 2024.
The project, which will run for an initial period of three years, will focus on the study of (1) legal development and theory, (2) transactional and dispute resolution practices, (3) public policy, and (4) legal education. It will have an inter-disciplinary aspect (business, economics, political science, and international affairs).
A ‘participatory advisory board’ for the project was formed with senior leaders from the Dublin legal community and the School of Law. It is actively involved in the project as are students from Trinity College Dublin.
Symposia
First Symposium
The first symposium under the project on the ‘past, present, and future of the international leasing of personal property’ was held on 16 January 2025. It had these sub-parts:
(a) nature, history, and economic impact of leasing
(b) liability of lessors and lessee for damage to third parties caused by leased property
(c) conflict of laws issues in international leasing transactions
(d) insolvency issues in international leasing transactions
It was attended by members of the project’s participatory advisory board (PAB), which include representatives from leading legal and commercial Irish companies, AWG’s Irish contact group, Trinity College Dublin faculty members, and all student associates (see below).
Second Symposium
The second symposium under the project – on ‘International litigation in Ireland – comparative perspectives’ was held on 25 June 2025.
It involved making a comparison between Irish, English, and New York law on the topics listed below
The substantive rules and their related rationale were set out in a skeletal outline for each topic – prepared by the firms in the Irish Contact Group
- The public availability of pleadings and submissions (lack of public dockets) (Mathesons)
- Right to assign a cause of action (Mason Hayes & Curran) with comments by Commissioner Collins
- Litigation funding (the facility or lack thereof) (Arthur Cox)
- Recognition and enforcement of judgments (McCann FitzGerald)
- Substantive rule
- Grounds for non-recognition and non-enforcement
Related event
In conjunction with the second symposium, an international moot court event on under the Cape Town Convention and its Aircraft Protocol (CTC) was held. That event (Irish CTC moot), on a cross-border insolvency problem, was friendly between teams fielded by Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin Faculties of Law.
The Irish CTC moot was held under the auspices of the Cape Town Convention Academic Project (CTCAP), which is a joint undertaking between UNIDROIT and the University of Cambridge, with the Aviation Working Group as a founding sponsor.
Student Associates
TThe Student Associates on the School's Transnational Commercial and Leasing Law Project for 2024-2025 were: Keelan Daye, Yunqiu Ma, Ewhomazino Otuorimuo, Alejandro Fredes Paredes, Julia Tomasiak and Anna Witte. The six Associates were postgraduate students on the School's LLM programme and worked with mentors in A&L Goodbody, Arthur Cox, Mason Hayes & Curran, Mathesons and McCann FitzGerald .