Sponsorship of the Institute's Activities
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law is a Registered Charity (No 209425). It relies on membership fees, sponsorship and charitable donations from organisations and individuals for its income. It receives no permanent funding from government.
For this reason the Institute needs sustained help to ensure that it continues to meet its objectives and promote the importance of legal thinking. If you would like to support a specific initiative and would like to know more about the Institute's current programmes, please consult the Research section of this website.
The Institute can offers a number of events-related and other packages through its sponsorship programme at which sponsors have the opportunity to target their products and services to a well-informed legal community, whilst increasing members' and non-members' awareness of their organization's interests.
Recent Sponsors
Below is a list of recent sponsors of Institute projects, publications and events. We are grateful to them all for helping us achieve our aims.
For further details about sponsorship, please contact Ruth Eldon: r.eldon@biicl.org
Joint sponsorship of the Institute's Seventh Annual Trans-Atlantic Antitrust Dialogue Conference held on 1 and 2 May 2007.
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The British Academy
Kind sponsors of the Institute's Testing the Boundaries of International Humanitarian Law Conference on 1-2 June 2006.
The British Red Cross worked closely with the Institute as a sponsor of the Testing the Boundaries of International Humanitarian Law Conference on 1-2 June 2006.
Kind sponsor of the Chalfen Memorial Lecture Series.
2006 lecture: Transnational Corporations and The UN: The Evolution of the International Policy and Legal Debate Over 30 Years on 27 April 2006
2007 lecture: Multinational Companies: Of Institutional "Spheres of Influence", Corporate Social Responsibility and Meaningful Financial Sector Law Reform for Developing Countries on 3 December 2007.
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- Sponsorship of the Institute's seminar entitled Corporate Accountability for Foreign Government Actions under US Law: The Alien Tort Statute- Recent Developments and Future Prospects, held on 10 March 2005.
- Sponsorship of the Institute's seminar entitled Investment Protection in India, held on 25 June 2007.
- Kind sponsors of the Institute's project on Damages in International Law
- Supporters of the Institute's discussion series State Jurisdiction in a Global Environment: Rethinking Extraterritoriality.
Kind sponsors of the Institute's project on Damages in International Law
Hosting of the Institute's Investment Treaty Forum seminar on the 2006 Amendments to the ICSID Arbitration Rules on 13 July 2006.
Corporation of London
Sponsorship of the Institute's conference entitled Market Abuse: National Responses to a Global Problem - the EU, USA, Hong Kong and China Compared, held on 23-24 May 2005.
Joint sponsor of the Institute's Seventh Annual Trans-Atlantic Antitrust Dialogue Conference held on 1 and 2 May 2007.
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A major supporter of the Institute's project on Damages in International Law
Kind funders of the Legal Tools for Commonwealth Africa project
Sponsors of a seminar organised by the Institute's Investment Treaty Forum on 24 January 2007 entitled Energy Investment in Russia: What Role for the Energy Charter Treaty?
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Sponsorship of a seminar organised by the Institute's Investment Treaty Forum on China and International Investment Law, held on 2 April 2007.
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Sponsorship of the Institute's seminar entitled Corporate Accountability for Foreign Government Actions under US Law: The Alien Tort Statute - Recent Developments and Future Prospects, held on 10 March 2005.
European Commission
In addition to much project work carried out by the Institute in European and Comparative Law for the Commission, the latter has also funded the following initiatives:
- The Legal Tools for Commonwealth Africa project, under the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights programme Support for the Abolition of the Death Penalty (completed 2005).
- Training Judges in EC Competition Law (completed 2005)
- Enforcement Agency Practice in Europe (completed 2005)
- The Human Rights Project, The Promotion of Democratisation and Human Rights in Iran
Sponsors of the Ninth Annual Review of the Arbitration Act (31 January 2006), the Tenth Annual Review of the Arbitration Act (31 January 2007) and the 11th Annual Review of the Arbitration Act Conference (21 January 2008).
Sponsors of the Pharmaceutical Regulation and Product Liability Conference held on Friday 21 April 2006 at Atlantic House, London.
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Co-Host of the Conference on French Commercial Code & British Commercial Law within a Global Market Place - 'Celebrating the Bicentenary of the French Commercial Code', held at the Institute on 6 June 2007.
Co-Sponsor of the 11th Annual Review of the Arbitration Act Conference (21 January 2008).
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Kind sponsor of the 46th London-Leiden Conference - International Law in Community Law: Another Incoming Tide? (30 June 2007).
Georgetown University Law Center
Sponsorship and co-organization of the Institute's Annual WTO Conferences
- Kind sponsors of the Seminar Series on Private International law starting launched on 24 October 2006 with a seminar on the Future of Private International in England and Wales.
- Kind sponsors of the seminar 10 Years On: What the Users Say - Preliminary Observations on a Major Survey of Users' Views on the Act to be held on 15 November 2006.
- Sponsorship of the 31st Annual FA Mann Lecture: "The Cost of Never Saying Never", held at The Old Hall Lincoln's Inn on 30 October 2007.
Sponsors of the debate of 29 March 2006: 'This House Has Seen the Collapse of Principle in the Tort of Negligence'
International Bar Association
Kind funders of the Institute's Legal Tools for Commonwealth Africa Project
Sponsors of the debate of 29 March 2006: 'This House Has Seen the Collapse of Principle in the Tort of Negligence'
Kind sponsors of a half-day meeting organised by the Institute's Investment Treaty Forum on Bolivia's Excit from ICSID: Legal and Practical Consequences of Denouncing the ICSID Convention held on 20 June 2007.
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Sponsors of the Lecture Nuclear Weapons, Energy and the Environment - The 10th Anniversary of the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on Nuclear Weapons, delivered by Dr Hans Blix, Chairman, Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, at the Institute on 27 November 2006.
Kind sponsors of the Insitute's 2007 Annual Grotius Lecture, speaker Judge Rosalyn Higgins DBE QC, and the Annual Grotius Dinner, both on Tuesday 16 October 2007.
- Major supporter of the Institute's project on Damages in International Law
- Kind sponsors of the Conference on Pharmaceutical Regulation and Product Liability held on 21 April 2006 at Atlantic House, London
- Hosts of the Investment Treaty Forum Seminar and Dinner with Professor Andrea Menaker, US Department of State: 8 December 2005.
- Joint sponsor of the Institute's Seventh Annual Trans-Atlantic Antitrust Dialogue Conference held on 1 and 2 May 2007 and sole sponsor of the Conference Dinner.
Macquarie Bank Foundation
Major supporter of the Institute's project on Damages in International Law
Kind sponsor of a Lecture on Rome I and Rome II - What Europe has in mind, held on 17 May 2007 at the University of Glasgow.
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Co-sponsor of French Commerical Code & British Commerical Law within a Global Market-Place 'Celebrating the Bicentenary of the French Commercial Code' held on 6 June 2007.
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Kind funders of the Institute's Legal Tools for Commonwealth Africa Project
Kind sponsors of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law's 5th Annual Merger Conference on 24 November 2006 and 6th Annual Merger Conference 2007 on 16 November 2007.
Kind sponsors of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law's 5th Annual Merger Conference on 24 November 2006 and 6th Annual Merger Conference 2007 on 16 November 2007.
Generous sponsorship of the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Annual WTO Conferences.
Kind sponsors of a one-day conference held at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law on 13 November 2006 entitled: Lamfalussy - Is it Working? The Impact of the Lamfalussy Procedures on the Market Abuse Directive and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive.
Kind sponsors of the Institute's conference Arbitrating Competition Law Issues on 12 June 2006
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
Hosting of the Institute's Investment Treaty Forum Members' Meeting on 12 July 2006
The Society of Legal Scholars
The Institute has organized two events in collaboration with the Society of Legal Scholars: the Law of the Sea Symposium of 22 and 23 March 2005 (which the Society sponsored) and the Public International Law Interest Group conference 'International Human Rights Law-The State of the Art' on 9 May 2005
University of Ulster
The Institute organized a conference entitled 'Religion and Human Rights' which was kindly sponsored by the Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster on 1 March 2005
The Institute is grateful to White & Case for their support of the Seminar on The Protection of Journalistic Sources: EC and ECHR Perspectives, held on Wednesday 31 October 2007 at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.
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Sponsor of a seminar organised by the Institute's Investment Treaty Forum on Precedent in International Arbitration held on 20 April 2007.
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