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'This House has Seen the Collapse of Principle in the Tort of Negligence'
10 April 2006The popular law lord, Lord Hoffmann, moderated a debate organised by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law's Tort Law Centre on 29 March 2006 which took place...
A Conversation between Institute Vice President Dame Rosalyn Higgins and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
2 April 2006On the occasion of the American Society of International Law's 100th Annual Meeting, a panel of conversationalists including Institute Vice President Dame Rosalyn Higgins, Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor,...
Corporate Governance and Regulation of Directors' Pay
2 March 2006Professor Jonathan Rickford, Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, gave an interview on 1 March 2006 to Swiss broadcasting station Schweizer Fernsehen. The interview concerned...
Institute Welcomes New Research Fellow
1 March 2006The Institute is pleased to welcome its latest Research Fellow, Jacob van de Velden. Jacob has been appointed by the Institute to work on its European Commission-funded project on...
French Justice on Trial
28 February 2006On 28 February Institute Research Fellow Dr Duncan Fairgrieve was invited by BBC Radio 4's Law in Action programme to give his views on the inquisitorial system of criminal...
Droits et Libertes en France et au Royaume-Uni
24 February 2006BIICL Research Fellow Duncan Fairgrieve has published a comparative Franco-British study on Freedom and Rights, entitled Droits et Libertes en France et au Royaume-Uni and co-authored with two judges...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Addresses BIICL-Chatham House Seminar
16 February 2006On Wednesday 15 February 2006 at a joint BIICL and Chatham House event, Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, gave an engaging talk on global counter-terrorism measures....
Institute's Work Leads to Declaration of Unconstitutionality of Ugandan Death Penalty
10 February 2006The mandatory imposition of the death penalty in Uganda was declared unconstitutional as a result of the Africa Death Penalty project, said Keir Starmer QC at the launch of...
Institute Vice President Elected President of the ICJ
8 February 2006The Institute would like to congratulate one of its Vice Presidents, HE Judge Rosalyn Higgins DBE QC, who has just been elected President of the International Court of Justice...
2006 Annual Competition Litigation Conference
3 February 2006The British Institute held its Annual Competition Litigation Conference on 3 February 2006 for the first public presentation by the European Commission of its Green Paper on Damages Actions...
Women's Human Rights and Religion: How do they Coexist?
30 January 2006Women's Human Rights and Religion: How do they Coexist? was the keynote address delivered by Institute Board of Trustees Member Professor Christine Chinkin at a Conference on Religion and...
Product Liability Forum Published in the Modern Law Review
17 January 2006Research work undertaken by Duncan Fairgrieve and Geraint Howells on the recently-implemented General Product Safety Regulations has been published as a substantial article in the leading journal, the Modern...
Study on Legalisation of Documents between Member States of the European Union
7 January 2006The Institute has been selected by the Justice and Home Affairs Directorate of the European Commission to study the difficulties faced by citizens and economic operators because of the...
Comparative Implementation of EU Directives (I): Insider Dealing and Market Abuse
22 December 2005The Institute has produced a report on the comparative implementation of the key provisions of the Insider Dealing Directive and the equivalent articles of the Market Abuse...
A Century of Reports: Inquiries into Collective Security Law
17 December 2005On 15 and 16 December 2005 the Institute's Dr Susan Breau attended a workshop at the University of Utrecht hosted by the Centre for Conflict and Security Law and...
European Commission's Review of the Product Liability Directive
15 December 2005The European Commission undertakes a regular review of the efficiency of the product liability framework, as required by the Product Liability Directive. The first report was presented in 1995....
Current Competition Law Vol IV
22 November 2005This book is a collection of papers and speeches given at the Institute's main competition law events during 2004-2005, in particular: the Institute's annual conference on merger control in December...
Unfair Commercial Practices and the New Member States
22 November 2005An analysis of the existing national laws on unfair commercial practices between business and consumers in the new Member States The recently produced report on Unfair Commercial Practices and the...
British Institute of International and Comparative Law's Fifth Annual WTO Conference
18 November 2005The Annual WTO Conference, organized by the British Institute in cooperation with the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and chaired by Advocate General Francis...
Product Liability in Comparative Perspective
15 November 2005This book has been edited by Duncan Fairgrieve with contributions from Professor Jane Stapleton, Professor Geraint Howells, Professor Dr Taschner, Mr Justice Burton, Michael Brooke QC, Ian Forrester QC,...
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