State Jurisdiction in a Global Environment: Rethinking Extraterritoriality

In October 2006 the Institute launched a seminar series entitled State Jurisdiction in a Global Environment: Rethinking Extraterritoriality. The series aims to shed a modern light on this age-old discussion about States' prerogative to regulate conduct taking place outside their territory and the constraints imposed by international law. The seris will focus on recent developments in areas such as competition law, human rights, criminal law, financial and corporate law, investment law and internet law, and develop the themes addressed by policy makers such as those in the recent report of the International Chamber of Commerce's Task Force on Extraterritoriality. Each seminar will address one specific instance of extraterritorial application and enforcement of laws, the challenges that such application/enforcement raises and the possible mechanisms that may be put in place to meet such challenges.

The series, which follows the successful lecture series held at the Institute in the 2005-06 academic year on International Law in Domestic Courts, will consist of evening seminars led by leading academics and practitioners. The series will result in a publication collecting the papers presented as well as reports summarising the ensuing discussion. The series, which will continue throughout 2007, has been kindly sponsored by Clifford Chance LLP.

The current programme is set out below. Further events will be added shortly.

30 October 2006

Recovering Stolen State Assets and the Proceeds of Grand Corruption (speaker: Monty Raphael, Peters & Peters)

12 December 2006

Cross Border Abuse: Investigations and Protection?

2 February 2007

International Cartels - Comparative Pespectives on Practice, Procedure and Substance

18 July 2007

The Al Skeini Decision and the Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights: A Landmark? (speaker: Ralph Wilde, UCL)

This seminar series will run in parallel with the Institute's private international law seminar series entitled Private International Law in the UK: Current Topics and Changing Landscapes. The concurrent launch of these two programmes is an important development intended to ensure that the Institute remains particularly well-positioned to provide an increasingly integrated response founded in private and public international law to global developments and challenges.

If you have any questions in relation to this series please do not hesitate to contact Dr Federico Ortino.