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Vincent Smith
Honorary Senior Fellow
Biography Dr Vincent Smith teaches at ESCP Business School (London and Paris) where he is an assistant professor, having been on the faculty as since 2015. His teaching at ESCP focuses on commercial law and governance. He also consults as a solicitor on regulatory (competition), commercial and EU law, having practised in both London and in Brussels. Before joining ESCP Vincent was a partner in private practice specialising in competition and collective redress matters. He has carried this…
Centre for Comparative Law+2Eva Lein
Senior Research Fellow in Private International Law and Director, Centre for Comparative Law
Biography Eva is Professor at the University of Lausanne and Director of the Comparative Law Center at BIICL. Her fields of expertise are private international law, international dispute resolution and comparative law with a special focus on contract law and, more recently, digitalisation. She has also been a Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and at Queen Mary, Institute in Paris, a Visiting Professor at different institutions, including the University Paris I (Sorbonne),…
Arbitration+4Duncan Fairgrieve
Senior Research Fellow in Comparative Law & Director, Product Liability Forum
Biography Duncan Fairgrieve is Senior Research Fellow in Comparative Law and Director of the Product Liability Forum at the Institute. He is also Professor of Comparative Law at Université de Paris Dauphine in France. Duncan Fairgrieve is a leading comparative lawyer, with research interests spanning both comparative private and public law, with specific focus on three specific areas, comparative administrative law (with a particular interest in state liability), comparative law of…
Centre for Comparative Law+4Product liability, litigation funding and collective actions - redressing the balance?
Event Date: 26th September 2024
EVENTS Product liability, litigation funding and collective actions - redressing the balance? Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) invites you to an international litigation evening seminar organised by its Product…
Collective Redress+2A CLF 21st Anniversary Roundtable: The Future of Private Litigation and Collective Redress
Event Date: 10th September 2024
EVENTS A CLF 21st Anniversary Roundtable: The Future of Private Litigation and Collective Redress Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details The Competition Law Forum at BIICL invites you to join us on September 10th, 2024 for a Roundtable on the future of private litigation…
Collective Redress+3BIICL/IADC Meeting: Mass Torts and Emerging Risks - European and US Perspectives
Event Date: 7th February 2024
EVENTS BIICL/IADC Meeting: Mass Torts and Emerging Risks - European and US Perspectives Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Co-organised by the IADC and the BIICL Product Liability Forum Event Details This in-person event will be bring together European experts to take a look at developments in products…
Collective Redress+1EAPIL-BIICL Seminar on the Rome II Regulation
Event Date: 2nd December 2022
EVENTS EAPIL-BIICL Seminar on the Rome II Regulation Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Co-organised with EAPIL Event Details A joint seminar hosted by the European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL) and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL). The Seminar…
Artificial Intelligence+5Surveying European Developments in Product Liability
Event Date: 22nd November 2022
EVENTS Surveying European Developments in Product Liability Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details This in-person event will be bring together European experts to take a look at developments in products cases, including from the perspective of Collective Redress, with a group of distinguished…
Collective Redress+1The Review of the Arbitration Act 1996: How do we maintain English arbitration law as state of the art?
Event Date: 16th November 2022
EVENTS The Review of the Arbitration Act 1996: How do we maintain English arbitration law as state of the art? Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Co-organised with Event Details The Law Commission has recently reviewed the Arbitration Act 1996 to ensure that it continues to promote the UK as a leading…
Arbitration+5The Climate Case against Total in France: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects
Event Date: 29th June 2022
EVENTS The Climate Case against Total in France: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details Climate litigation is developing in a large number of countries around the world. Alongside lawsuits against states, there are more and more lawsuits against companies.…
Business and Human Rights+4Collective Redress: Claiming, Defending and Judging
Event Date: 17th June 2022
EVENTS Collective Redress: Claiming, Defending and Judging Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Co-organised by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Aston University Law school Event Details An afternoon conference taking a comparative look at collective redress from the point of view…
Collective RedressCollective Redress: Emerging Practice and Everyday Use
Event Date: 26th May 2022
EVENTS Collective Redress: Emerging Practice and Everyday Use Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Co-organised by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Aston University Law school Event Details In light of the rise in high-profile collective claims, this event will consider the evolving…
Collective RedressDamages Claims for Mass Data Breaches: Uk and European Perspectives
Event Date: 8th June 2021
EVENTS Damages Claims for Mass Data Breaches: UK and European Perspectives Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Sponsored by: Event Details In light of the recent hearing before the UK Supreme Court in the case of Lloyd v Google, this event will look across the Channel in order to assess the developing European…
Artificial Intelligence+2The Representative Actions Directive - a class action for Europe?
8th February 2021
After many years of discussion, the EU Representative Actions Directive was finally promulgated in early December last year. The European institutions have had a long-standing interest in consumer redress & group actions dating back to at least 1980s. The first concrete result of that was the Injunctions Directive passed in 1998, which though solely a regulatory measure, was nonetheless very significant development as the first EU legislation covering in a general way on civil procedural…
Collective Redress+3The Representative Actions Directive – a class action for Europe?
Event Date: 3rd February 2021
EVENTS The Representative Actions Directive - a class action for Europe? Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details This webinar will examine the recently-adopted EU Representative Actions Directive and consider its impact on cross-border and domestic collective redress actions across Europe.…
Collective Redress+5Breathing Space - Guidelines for the resolution of disputes in the 2020 pandemic
Event Date: 27th November 2020
EVENTS Breathing Space - Guidelines for the resolution of disputes in the 2020 pandemic Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details BIICL's "Breathing Space" series considers how the legal and business communities might respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in order to foster economic recovery.…
Arbitration+9Virtual Justice in France, UK & US: Status & Challenges of Remote Hearings & Trials
Event Date: 29th June 2020
WEBINAR Virtual Justice in France, UK & US: Status & Challenges of Remote Hearings & Trials Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Recording of the webinar Virtual Justice in France, UK & US: Status & Challenges of Remote Hearings & Trials Organised in partnership with: Event Details The…
Arbitration+6Bringing claims for mass data-breaches
Event Date: 3rd March 2020
EVENTS Bringing claims for mass data-breaches Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Sponsored by Event Details In light of increasingly high-profile cases concerning remedies for data breaches, this event will consider the different perspectives on accountability for mass data-breaches. Convened by the British…
Collective Redress+3Collective Redress in the EU, Central & South East Europe
Event Date: 17th May 2018
Time: 17:30-19:00 (Registration open from 17:00) Venue: British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5JP This seminar takes the recent developments at an EU level in respect of Collective Redress mechanisms as the context for examining the development of mechanisms for resolving mass disputes in the regions of Central Europe and South East Europe. Leading speakers will discuss whether existing collective redress procedures provide…
Collective Redress+1Study on Collective Redress for the European Commission
Eva Lein | 1st November 2017
BIICL conducted a study for the European Commission, in a research consortium with Civic Consulting and Risk & Policy Analysts (RPA), and supported by the Office for Economic Policy and Regional Development (EPRD). The more than 1000 pages study analyses the state of collective redress in the EU in context of the implementation of the Commission Recommendation (2013/396/EU) on common principles for injunctive and compensatory collective redress mechanisms in the Member States. The…
Centre for Comparative Law+1