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Institute News
Morphine Exports from Afghanistan: International Trade Law Aspects
11 August 2006The Institute is undertaking a study on the international trade law aspects of potential morphine and codeine exports from Afghanistan. The Study has been commissioned by the Senlis Council,...
Launch of Advocates for International Development
3 August 2006The Institute is pleased to advertise the launch of Advocates for International Development, the culmination of the 2005 Oxfam 1,000 City Lawyers Initiative. Advocates for International Development was born out...
Report on the Application of the Brussels I Regulation in England and Wales
26 July 2006The Institute has contributed to a Study commissioned by the European Commission on the application of the Regulation 44/2001/EC (the 'Brussels I Regulation') on jurisdiction and the recognition and...
XVII Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law
24 July 2006From 17 - 22 July 2006 the Institute participated in the XVII Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, hosted by the University of Utrecht. The International Academy is...
State Practice Regarding State Immunities
13 July 2006This book, edited by Professor Gerhard Hafner, Professor Marcelo Kohen and Dr Susan Breau, is the result of the Council of Europe Pilot Project on State Practice regarding State...
Institute Vice President Lady Hazel Fox QC Made CMG
19 June 2006The Institute would like to congratulate its Vice President, Lady Hazel Fox CMG QC, on her admission as Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, for...
BIICL Annual Conference
16 June 2006The Institute Annual Conference held on 16 June 2006 was an opportunity for BIICL to demonstrate its considerable research expertise in many fields to members of both the profession...
Arbitrating Competition Law Issues: A European and US Perspective
13 June 2006On the 12 June 2006 BIICL, in conjunction with SJ Berwin, held a conference focusing on the interrelation between international arbitration and competition law in the widest sense of...
The Antarctic: Legal Issues
11 June 2006On Saturday 10 June 2006, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and the Scottish Centre for International Law hosted a one-day Conference on Legal Issues arising from...
The Law on Secured Transactions: The Need for Reform
1 June 2006On 31 May 2006 the British Institute of International and Comparative Law held a workshop on the law on secured transactions. The issues were tackled by an outstanding panel...
Sixth Annual WTO Conference
26 May 2006The British Institute of International and Comparative Law, in association with the Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL) at Georgetown University Law Center, hosted the Sixth Annual WTO Conference,...
European Tort Law
25 May 2006The Institute is pleased to announce the publication by one of its Fellows, Professor Cees van Dam, of the first textbook on European tort law through Oxford University Press....
Institute Welcomes New Research Fellow
1 May 2006The Institute is delighted to welcome Dr Sergey Ripinsky, who has joined the Institute with the primary task of working on the Institute's project on Damages in International Law....
Chalfen Memorial Lecture
27 April 2006Dr Karl Sauvant, Executive Director of Columbia University Program on International Investment, formerly Director of the Investment Division at UNCTAD, addressed the topic of the 2006 Chalfen Memorial Lecture...
UK Government Decides Not to 'Opt in' to the Proposed Rome I Regulation
27 April 2006On 15 December 2005 the European Commission published the latest fruit of the initiative it began in the field of private international law after the entry into force of...
The Second Money Laundering Directive
25 April 2006The Institute has been asked to undertake research on money laundering for the City of London Corporation, following the successful completion of an earlier report for the Corporation on...
International Law: Contemporary Principles and Practices
11 April 2006From LexisNexis: Professor Gillian Triggs, the Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, has "published a clear and balanced account of the emerging rules of both...
'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...
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