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Table of Contents

Materials submitted after 3/10/06 can be found at:

http://www.abanet.org/intlaw/spring2006/materials.html

 

Ladders and Leaders:  Women in the Legal Profession

Program Co-Chairs:

Cyndee Todgham Cherniak

Lorraine M. Brennan

 

Moderator:

Elizabeth Wall

 

Speakers:

Kay Boulware-Miller

Lucinda Low

Lucy Reed

 

 

The Problems and Potential of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (Presented by the International Bar Association)

Program Chair:

David W. Rivkin

 

Speakers:

Thomas J. Brandt

Debra Valentine

Elpidio Villarreal

Judge Diane P. Wood

 

 

 

Hot Topics in International Securities Listings

Program Chair:

David A. Schwartz

 

Moderator:

Nicholas Grabar

 

Speakers:

Paul M. Dudek

Michael I Gans

Annemarie Tierney

Georges Ugeux

Crispin Waymouth

 

 

The Role of the United Nations in Promoting the Rule of Law Around the World

Program Chair:

Timothy L. Dickinson

 

Speakers:

Jamal Benomar

Nina Berg

Lee Waldorf

Fatemeh Ziai

 

 

A Conversation with the WTO Appellate Body

Program Chair:

Matthew Dunne

 

Speakers:

Georges Michel Abi-Saab

Luiz Olavo Baptista

Arumugamangalam Venkatachalam Ganesan

Merit E. Janow

Giorgio Sacerdoti

Yasuhei Taniguichi

 

 

Quicker Justice: A Transatlantic Toolbox

 

Program Chair:

His Honour Judge Graham Jones

 

Speakers:

Gavin Foggo

Gary Milner-Moore

Peter Rees

Seamus Smyth

 

 

Fundamentals of International Business Transactions (including Ethics) - Part I

Program Chair:

Michael Wallace Gordon

 

Speakers:

Eduardo Ramos-Gómez

Peter L. Fitzgerald

Kenneth G. Ottenbreit

José “Tony” Santos, Jr.

John A. Spanogle, Jr.

Peter Winship

 

 

 

Fundamentals of International Business Transactions (including Ethics) - Part II

Program Chair:

Michael Wallace Gordon

 

Speakers:

Juan Pablo Cappello

David Epstein

Iñigo Quintana

Mark Rosenberg

John A. Spanogle, Jr.

John M. Townsend

 

 

 

Negotiating Peace Agreements

Program Chair:

Marcello Hallake

 

Moderator:

Mara Rudman

 

Speakers:

Amjad Atallah

Daniel Levy

 

 

International Securities Exchanges:  The Stock Market of the Future

Program Chair:

David A. Schwartz

 

Moderator:

David C. Karp

 

Speakers:

Richard P. Bernard

Ed Knight

Marie-Ange Olivetti

 

 

 

International Outsourcing:  An Interactive Discussion of the Key Legal and Business Issues

Program Co-Chairs:

Philippe David

Rick Kozody

Alan Jakimo (Co-Moderator)

 

Co-Moderators:

Ian Kyer

 

Speakers:

Rajesh Nambiar

Kenneth Rashbaum

Brian Segnit

Charles Stiller

Edward Tucker, M.D.

 

 

Fighting Global Corruption

Program Co-Chairs:

Alexandra Wrage

Stuart Deming

 

Speakers:

Carole Basri

Suzanne Rich Folsom

Philip Urofsky

Mary Jane Schirber

 

 

New Partners in Private International Law:  Developing New Norms for Global Business Transactions, Part I

Program Chair:

Louise Ellen Teitz

 

Speakers:

Ronald A. Brand

José Angelo Estrella Faria

 

Practitioners Panel:

Stephen W. Schwab

Robert Brodegaard

Marc E. Hankin

David A. Levy

David J. Levy

Arnaud Nuyts

 

 

Managing Antitrust Risk in Cross-Border Acquisitions:  What Corporate/M&A Lawyers Need to Know

Program Chair:

Michael Byowitz

 

Speakers:

Marcelo Calliari

Peter Franklyn

Ronan Harty

  • Premerger Coordination between Merging Parties: Antitrust Considerations

    David W. Hull

     

     

    Two Sides to the Same Coin: An Overview of Canada-U.S. Relations

    Program Chair:

    Philippe David

     

    Moderator:

    Raymond Chrétien

     

    Speakers:

    James Blanchard

    Allan Gotlieb

    Michael Kergin

    David Wilkins

     

     

     

    Legal Developments for International Trade in Textiles and Apparel

    Program Chair:

    Kemba Eneas

  • Overview

     

    Moderator:

    Patrick V. Gallagher, Jr

     

    Speakers:

    James Jochum

    Robert Leo

    Marguerite Trossevin

     

     

    Facing the Regulators:  When Your Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Program Skips a Beat (Includes CLE Ethics Credit)

    Program Chair:

    William B. Hoffman

     

    Moderator:

    John A. Kelley

     

    Speakers:

    Lynne H. Federman

    Daniel Karson

    Tim O’Neal Lorah

    Thomas A. Ryder

     

     

     

    Multinational Intellectual Property Disputes: Streamlining Adjudication

    Program Chair:

    Peter Haver

     

    Speakers:

    Jean-Yves Art

    William Baker

    Larry Cohen

    Mark Pals

     

     

    Deans' Roundtable

    Program Co-Chairs:

    Robert E. Lutz, II

    Aaron Schildhaus

     

    Speakers:

    Joan Wexler

    David Rudenstine

    Aaron Twerski

    Richard Matasar

    Stephen Friedman

  • Why Can’t Law Students Be More Like Lawyers?

     

     

    New Developments at the International Criminal Court

    Program Chair:

    David Stoelting

    ·        Fourth Session of the Assembly of States Parties, Statement by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

  • Basics on the International Criminal Court and the U.S. Position

  • Champion of Justice Speech.  By, Elise Grouix

     

     

     

    Speakers:

    Christine Chung

    John Wesley Hall

    Judge Maureen Harding Clark

    John Washburn (Program Co-Chair and Co-Moderator)

     

     

     

    Making or Importing Wine: The International Aspects of the Wine Business

    Program Chair:

    Charles Routh

  • Legal Issues in Importing Wine Abstract

     

    Speakers:

    Vincent O'Brien

    Dave Sokolin

     

     

     

    Managing International M&A Transactions: The Anatomy of a Multijurisdictional Deal

    Program Chair:

    Steven Levin

     

    Speakers:

    Markus Fisseler

  • Local Counsel’s Wish List

    Stephen Hope

    Peter Mendell

  • Managing International Transactions: A Guide to the International Lawyer in the Context of Recent Developments

    Thomas Sauermilch

     

     

     

    May It Please the Court:  A Forum with Some of the World’s Leading International Arbitral Institutions

    Program Co-Chairs:

    Albert Bates, Jr.

  • Arbitration in a Global Economy: Managing Information Exchange to Expedite International Commercial Arbitration Hearings

    Ronald Goodman

     

    Speakers:

    Lorraine M. Brennan

    Roberto Dañino

    Helena Tavares Erickson

  • The Case for Self-Administered Arbitration

    Richard Naimark

    Adrian Winstanley

     

     

     

    Employment Discrimination, Whistleblowing, and Related Trends:  New Threats for Multinational Employers

    Program Chair:

    Philip M. Berkowitz

  • Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Claims— Interpreting "Fraud Against Shareholders"

     

    Moderator:

    Thomas Müller-Bonanni

     

    Speakers:

    Vicente Calle

  • Talking Points

    Qi Adam Li

    Anne Nicholson

  • The Perspective from the United Kingdom

    Anders Etgen Reitz

  • Talking Points

    Liesbeth (E.) Th.M. Sneek

  • Talking Points

    Antoine Vivant

     

     

    United Nations Procurement: Policy and Practice

    Program Chair:

    Jason Matechak

     

    Speakers:

    James Provenzano

    David Mitchels

  • PowerPoint

     

     

    Using International Litigation to Enforce Corporate Social Responsibility

    Program Chair:

    David A. Levy

     

    Moderator:

    Carole Basri

     

    Speakers:

    Terry Collingsworth

    Jeff Cooper

    Rev. Richard Davis

    Nick Benwell

     

     

    Cross-Border Employment and Global Mobility Issues in Europe and Latin America:  A Closer Look at International Assignments

    Program Co-Chairs:

    Erika Collins

  • Background Information

    Dr. Thomas Griebe

  • Background Information

     

    Speakers:

    Manuel Cuevas-Trisan

  • PowerPoint

    Philippe Despres

  • Background Information

    Anders Etgen Reitz

  • Background Information

    Enrique Stile

  • PowerPoint

     

     

     

    Public Takeovers in the International Context Part I

    Program Co-Chairs:

    Joshua Cammaker

    Kenneth Ottenbreit

     

    Moderator:

    Joachim Rosengarten

     

    Speakers:

    Ann Beth Stebbins

    Umberto Nicodano

    Jeff Twentyman

    Jaap Winter

     

     

     

    The State of the Current WTO Negotiations Six Months After the Hong Kong Ministerial: Perspectives on the End-Game

    Program Co-Chairs:

    John Magnus

     

    Moderator:

    Ted Alden

     

    Speakers:

    Dorothy Dwoskin

    Jagdish Baghwati

    R. Michael Gadbaw

     

     

     

    A Forward Outlook - What the Practice of Law Will Look like in 2025

    Program Chair:

    Soraya E. Bosi

  • The Pernicious Effect of the Hourly Rate on Client/Counsel Relations

  • Competitive Marketing: Marketing Legal Services to In-House Counsel

  • Think Strategically -- Plan!

  • What Do Law Firms Sell?  What Do Clients Buy?

    Moderator:

    Michel A. Brunet

     

    Speakers:

    George R. Krouse. Jr.

    Christine Lagarde

    Tower C. Snow, Jr.

    Peter Zeughauser

     

     

     

    Weaponization of Space

    Program Chair:

    John H. Harrington

     

    Moderator:

    Jonathan G. Granoff

  • U.S. Space Command: Vision for 2020

  • Two Incompatible Visions

     

    Speakers:

    Philip Coyle

  • International Space Programs and Dual Use Technologies for Space Weapons

    Ambassador Thomas Graham

  • An NPT for Non-Members

  • Common Sense on Weapons of Mass Destruction

  • Space Weapons and the Risk of Accidental Nuclear War

  • Sixty Years After Hiroshima, A New Nuclear Era

  • Book Review: Remember Arms Control?

    Detlev Wolter

  • Common Security in Outer Space and International Law

  • Common Security in Outer Space and International Law, Leaflet

  • Legal Foundations and Essential Treaty Elements for a System of Common Security in Outer Space

  • Disarmament Diplomacy 81

    Dr. Everett Carl Dolman

  • U.S. Military Transformation and Weapons in Space

     

     

    International Developments in Corporate Governance, Including for Privately Held Entities, with Ethics

    Program Co-Chairs:

    Mark F. Richardson

    Carlos José Rolim de Mello

     

    Speakers:

    Raymond Wong

    José M.Garrido García

  • The Corporate Governance of Listed Corporations: Principles for Corporate Governance Based on Consolidation of the1995, 1999 and 2002 AFEP and MEDEF’s Reports

  • The Combined Code on Corporate Governance

  • German Corporate Governance Code

    Carlos Carrera

    David Katz

     

     

     

    You’re Telling Me the U.S. Government is Going to Monitor My Arbitration Proceeding?  The Intersection of U.S. Export Controls and International Dispute Resolution

    Program Chair:

    John Ordway

  • The Intersection of U.S. Export Controls and International Dispute Resolution

     

    Speakers:

    Rupert Reece

    Gerald Aksen

     

     

     

    Public Takeovers in the International Context Part II

    Program Co-Chairs:

    Joshua Cammaker

    Kenneth Ottenbreit

     

    Moderator:

    Joachim Rosengarten

     

    Speakers:

    Olivier Diaz

    Joachim Kaffanke

    David Silk

    Jeff Twentyman

    Xiaolin Zhou

     

     

     

    Developments in Cross-Border Insolvencies: The Changing Landscape of U.S. and Foreign Law

    Program Chair:

    Charles D. Schmerler

     

    Moderator:

    Bob Wessels

  • Council Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 of 29 May 2000 on Insolvency Proceedings

  • Council Regulation (EC) No 603/2005 of 12 April 2005 amending the lists of insolvency proceedings, winding-up proceedings and liquidators in Annexes A, B and C to Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 on insolvency proceedings

     

    Speakers:

    Thomas Felsberg

  • A Brief Note on the New Brazilian Bankruptcy Law

  • Cross-Border Insolvencies and Reconstructurings in Brazil

    Evan Flaschen

    Neil Griffiths

    Joseph Marin

    Iñigo Quintana

    Robert Phillips

     

     

    What am I Going to Do Next?  How to Plan for the Job After your Main Legal Career

    Program Co-Chairs:

    Erik Wulff

    Carol Mates

     

    Speakers:

    Peter Allen

    Louis Lafili

    Chuck Routh

  • Background Information

     

     

    Practical Aspects of Cross-Border Expansion

    Program Chair:

    Amy Hirter

     

    Moderator:

    Alan Gutterman

     

    Speakers:

    Fabiano Deffenti

  • Agency and Distributorships: A Brief View of the Key Issues for Foreign Parities in Brazil, Australia and New Zealand

    Youngjin Jung

  • Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act

  • Korea’s Competition Law and Policies in Perspective

    Suyong Kim

  • Guidelines on Vertical Restraints

  • Council Directive 86/653/EEC of 18 December 1986 on the Coordination of the Laws of the Member States Relating to Self-Employed Commercial Agents

  • Commission Regulation (EC) No 2790/1999 of 22 December 1999 on the application of Article 81(3) of the Treaty to categories of vertical agreements and concerted practices

     

     

    Alternative Dispute Resolution Around the World

    Program Chair:

    Katlyn Thomas

     

    Speakers:

    Abdullah Kh. Al-Ayoub

  • International Commercial Arbitration in the Middle East

    Pallavi Shroff

    Jingzhou Tao

     

     

     

    Investing in Real Estate Across the World

    Program Chair:

    Victor Xercavins

  • Tax Structures to Invest in Spanish Real Estate

     

    Speakers:

    Adam Cleal

    Isabel Galvão Bueno C. Franco

  • Acquisition of Real Estate in Brazil

    Hernan Slemenson

    Xiaolin Zhou

    Benjamin Weber

     

     

     

    Informed Compliance and NAFTA Verifications: What to Expect, How to Prepare, What to Disclose

    Program Chair:

    Sidney Weiss

     

    Speakers:

    Glenn A. Cranker

    M. Page Hall, II

  • Background Information

    Daune Robinson

  • PowerPoint

    Gabriel Arriaga Callejas

  • PowerPoint

    Darwin Satherstrom

     

     

    Update on International Family Law

    Program Chair:

    Lynne Gold-Bikin

     

    Speakers:

    Mark Agrast

    Trish Apy

    Robert Arenstein

    Daniel Clifford

     

     

     

    Risk, Reward and Retail

    Program Chair:

    Jeffrey Greenbaum

     

    Speakers:

    Joseph Del Raso

    Judith Lawless

    Claude Kremer

    Peter Eldridge

     

     

     

    Expanding Operations Internationally: A View from the General Counsel’s Office

    Program Co-Chairs:

    Juan Pablo Cappello

    Javier Villasante

     

    Moderator:

    Carole Basri

     

    Speakers:

    Luis Miguel Briola

    Ralph R. Gonzalez

    John Spinnato

    Richard Wolf

     

     

     

    Changed Circumstances as Excuse for Non-Performance in International Investment Disputes – Is There Anything to be Done?

    Program Chair:

    Frederick Fucci

     

    Speakers:

    Ignacio Suarez Anzorena

    Lucy Reed

     

     

     

    Is China Taking Over the World?

    Program Co-Chairs:

    James Grandolfo

    Marcela Stras

    Richard Romney

     

    Speakers:

    Hon. C. Richard D'Amato

    Shirley-Ann George

    Janet Jie Tang

    Edward Lehman

     

     

     

    The Proliferating FTAs: They Can Help or Hurt You

    Program Chair:

    Robert Herzstein

     

    Speakers:

    Douglas Garfield

    Timothy Rief

     

     

     

    U.S. Lawyers Abroad:  Running the Ethical Gauntlet

    Program Chair:

    Bruce Horowitz

     

    Speakers:

    Bruce Bean

    Mary C. Daly

    Salli Swartz

     

     

     

    Fakes and Forgeries: Problems for the International Trade in Art Works

    Program Chair:

    Lucille Roussin

     

    Speakers:

    Jane Kallir

    Ronald Spencer

    Jane Levine

    Oscar White Muscarella

     

     

    Terrorism: Learning from the U.S. Response to 9/11, Followed by a Light Reception at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York

    Program Chair:

    James R. Silkenat

     

    Introductions By:

    Bettina B. Plevan

     

    Speakers:

    James R. Thompson

     

    Commentors:

    Miles Fischer

    Martin Flaherty

    Scott Horton

     

     

    The Ten Most Important Developments in Europe in 2005 and their Global Impact

    Program Chair:

    Christopher Mesnooh

     

    Speakers:

    Caroline Goodall

    Dorothy Hansberry-Bieguńska

    Richard Silberstein

     

     

     

    New Partners in Private International Law:  Developing New Norms for Global Business Transactions, Part II

    Program Chair:

    Louise Ellen Teitz

     

    Speakers:

    Dr. Andrea Shultz

    David P. Stewart

    Hans van Loon

     

     

    Iraq Update

    Program Chair:

    James Rayis

     

    Speakers:

    Carl Kress

    H.E. Ambassador Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida'ie

    Honorable Yonaddam Kanna

     

     

    International Cooperation in Tax Enforcement

    Program Co-Chairs:

    Scott Wilkie

    Donald Wilson

     

    Speakers:

    Mahmud Jamal

    Ian MacGregor

    Philip West

     

     

     

    Breakfast at the Bar:  David Spooner, Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

    Program Chair:

    Kristy Balsanek

     

    Speakers:

    David Spooner

     

     

     

    The Investment Climate in Latin America: The Aftermath of the Nineties and Current Challenges of Cross-Border Financing

     

    Program Co-Chairs:

    Meaghan McGrath Beaumont

    Alberto Navarro

     

    Speakers:

    Arturo Alessandri

    Jean Paul Chabaneix

    Guillermo Malm Green

    Laura J. McMahon

    Fabiano Deffenti

    Diego Munoz Tamayo

    Ed Vidal

               

     

    International Litigation and International Dispute Resolution

    Program Co-Chairs:

    Ben H. Sheppard, Jr.

    Katherine Birmingham Wilmore

     

    Speakers:

    Hon. Frederic Block

    Justice Christopher Clarke

    Lorraine M. Brennan

    Robert F. Brodegaard

    Jack J. Coe, Jr.

    Hilary Heilbron, QC

    Glenn P. Hendrix

    Pierre Yves-Gunter

    Toby Landau

    Kristin Myles

    Lucy Reed

     

     

    International Corporate Compliance for U.S. and Foreign Securities Law Filers - Maintaining an Ethical Culture

    Program Chair:

    Johnnie M. Jackson, Jr.

     

    Speakers:

    Donna R. Besteiro

    Paul M. Dudek

    James F. Duffy

     

     

    Developments in Enforcing International White Collar Crime

    Program Chair:

    Pamela Rogers Chepiga

     

    Moderator:

    Bruce Zagaris

     

    Speakers:

    Andrea Corcoran

    Elizabeth Jacobs

    John F. Savarese

     

     

    Hot Topics in International Trade: What you Need to Know

    Program Chair:

    Lynn Fischer Fox

     

    Speakers:

    Peggy Clarke

    Harry Clark

    Peter Ehrenhaft

    Jeffrey S. Thomas

     

     

     

    Data Protection and Security: What Every Business Should Know

    Program Chair:

    Jeffrey M Aresty

     

    Moderator:

    Demetrios Eleftheriou

     

    Speakers:

    Stephen Bell

    Lisa Sotto

    Jonathan Winer

     

     

     

    Commoditizing the Environment

    Program Co-Chairs:

    Kimberly Summe

    William Thomas

    Dixon Miller

     

    Speakers:

    Claude Brown

    Martin Whittaker

    Edward Zabrocki

    Thomas F. Pepevnak

    Douglas MacLeod

     

     

    Energy Integration in the Americas: The Opportunities and Challenges Ahead

    Program Co-Chairs:

    Jeffery A. Barnes

    Herbert Glaser

    Meaghan McGrath Beaumont

     

    Speakers:

    Veronica Angulo

    Isabel Galvão Bueno C. Franco

    Jonathan J. Green

    Juan Fernando Páez

    Randel R. Young

     

     

     

    What Every Corporate Counsel Should Know About Trade Remedies

    Program Chair:

    Peggy Clarke

     

    Speakers:

    Timothy Brightbill

    James Lyons

    Julie Mendoza

    Lawrence Walders

     

     

     

    Global Governance: International Organizations’ Response to Civil Society’s Demand for Accountability

    Program Chair:

    Karen Hudes

     

    Speakers:

    John Clark

    Lisa Jordan

    Tamuka Muzondo

    Bharati Sadavisam

     

     

    Dialogue with Jane Goodall

    Program Chair:

    Jonathan G. Granoff

     

    Speakers:

    Jane Goodall

     

     

    The Corporate Counsel Perspective on International Law and Dispute Resolution:  Are Improvements Needed in Laws, Rules and Services?

    Program Chair:

    Ronald Goodman

     

    Speakers:

    Richard Austin

    James Hunter

    Kathy Bryan

    Jonathan Graham

    Roland Schroeder

    Gerd Pleuhs

     

     

    International Accounting Standards:  Their Increasing Impact on Business and Legal Practices in the U.S. and Abroad

    Program Chair:

    Stuart Deming

     

    Speakers:

    Bart Capeci

    Donald J. Gannon

    Lawrence M. Gill

    Susan Koski-Grafer

     

     

    The Role of Religion in National Security

    Program Chair:

    Jonathan G. Granoff

     

    Speakers:

    Rev. Joan Brown Campbell

    Dr. Yassin El-Ayouty

    His Excellency Archbishop Celestino Migliore

     

     

     

    Greening the Deal:  Environmental Considerations in International Transactions

    Program Co-Chairs:

    William Thomas

    Kenneth Ottenbreit

     

    Speakers:

    Gail Flesher

    Jeffrey Smith

    Gray Taylor

    Richard A. Horsch

     

     

     

    The Reality of Trade Policy: The Effect of Politics on the Enactment and Enforcement of International Trade Treaties

    Program Chair:

    Matthew Nicely

     

    Moderator:

    I.M. (Mac) Destler

     

    Speakers:

    Timothy Punke

    Viji Rangaswami

    John Veroneau

     

     

    The Role of the Courts in Reviewing Administrative Decisions in Europe as Compared to Their Role in the United States (Based on Examples from Competition Cases)

    Program Chair:

    Martin Bechtold

     

    Speakers:

    Georg Berrisch

    James Flynn

    Nicholas Forewood

    Jarrett D. Arp

     

     

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