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Institute holds successful Annual Conference
4 June 2007The British Institute of International and Comparative Law's 2007 Annual Conference, which took place on 18 May, was attended by over 300 delegates and took as its theme, The...
Trans-Atlantic Antitrust Dialogue 2007
22 May 2007The Seventh Annual Trans-Atlantic Antitrust Dialogue, held by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law on 1-2 May 2007, brought together top antitrust officials, practitioners and consultants to...
Evidence Project Researchers meet with ICJ Judge
11 May 2007The Director of the Evidence Project, Anna Riddell and Researcher Brendan Plant, travelled to Oxford to hear Judge Bernardo Sepulveda-Amor of the International Court of Justice give a lecture...
Institute Website Book Sale 2007
4 May 2007Members will receive 40% discount on new discounted prices The Institute is currently offering reductions on the following books when purchased via the website: Current Competition Law Series (volumes 1-5) Price: £200 Competition...
Handbook of Research in Trans-Atlantic Antitrust edited by Philip Marsden published
8 March 2007This comprehensive research Handbook brings together cutting-edge legal and economic analysis into antitrust issues by leading experts from Europe, the USA, Canada, Mexico and South America. The Handbook of...
New OUP publication by Dr Federico Ortino on Regional Trade Agreements and WTO Legal System
8 March 2007The proliferation of regional trade agreements, including both free trade agreements and customs unions, over the past decade, has provoked many new legal issues in WTO law, public international...
UNCTAD Monitor on investor-State dispute settlement based on Investment Treaty Forum report
15 January 2007The Investment Division of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has published IIA Monitor No 4 (2006) on the "Latest Developments in Investor-State Dispute Settlement". The...
Comparative Implementation of EU Directives (II): Money Laundering
4 January 2007The City of London has published a report on the implementation of the EU Second Money Laundering Directive in the UK, Spain, Italy, Greece, Poland and Lithuania. The report...
Institute hosts lecture by HE Judge Pieter Kooijmans at Goodenough College
12 December 2006HE Judge Pieter Kooijmans, Former Judge of the International Court of Justice, delivered a lecture hosted by the Institute on 11 December at Goodenough College, London. The evening was chaired...
Institute hosts lecture by Dr Hans Blix at Inner Temple
28 November 2006Dr Hans Blix, Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC), delivered a lecture hosted by the Institute on 27 November at Inner Temple, London. The evening was chaired...
Institute reports on International Trade Law Aspects of Morphine Exports from Afghanistan
28 November 2006The British Institute has completed the Report commissioned by the Senlis Council, the security and development policy group working towards establishing a sustainable system of legal opium-for-morphine production in...
The WTO - A Change in Discourse?
10 November 2006By Sergey Ripinsky, Research Fellow in International Law After the suspension of the Doha Round negotiations, Pascal Lamy, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, has made additional efforts to...
Institute Research Fellow Lectures in Bogota on International Investment Law
6 November 2006In late October 2006, Institute Research Fellow Sergey Ripinsky travelled to the Universidad Externado de Colombia (Bogotá) to give lectures on international investment law and arbitration to local students,...
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Launches Institute Director's New International Law Book
20 October 2006Institute Director Professor Gillian Trigg's major new work on international law was launched at the University of Melbourne recently by Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Mr Alexander Downer. International...
Difficulties Using Public Documents in the EU: Online Survey
9 October 2006What kind of problems do people in the EU experience when they move to another Member State? Citizens and companies share one common challenge when exercising their free movement rights:...
New Institute Discussion Programmes: Extraterritoriality and Private International Law
3 October 2006'...an increasingly integrated response founded in private and public international law to global developments and challenges.' 'The Institute is pleased to announce the launch of two concurrent seminar programmes this...
China Workshop on Links between Competition and Liberalisation of Regulated Sectors
26 September 2006Dr Philip Marsden, Director of the Institute's Competition Law Forum and Senior Research Fellow, participated in a regional training workshop sponsored by China's Ministry of Commerce, on the links...
Henri Texier Prize Awarded to Dr Duncan Fairgrieve for Franco-British Study on Rights and Freedoms
26 September 2006Institute Research Fellow Dr Duncan Fairgrieve has been awarded the French Institute's annual Henri Texier prize for his Franco-British study on Freedom and Rights, entitled Droits et Libertes en...
European Parliament Project on Supervision of Life Assurance Undertakings
31 August 2006The Institute has won a bid submitted to the European Parliament for a study on the UK regulatory regime for the prudential supervision and conduct of business rules of...
58th Session of the International Law Commission
16 August 2006The Commission held its fifty-eighth session at the United Nations European Headquarters in Geneva from 1 May to 9 June and from 3 July to 11 August 2006. On...
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