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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2

8:30 am - 10:00 am
Cross-Border Employee Transfers: Tricks and Traps

            Philippe Desprès

8:30 am - 10:00 am
Justice and the Rule of Law:  Pakistan

            Don DeAmicis

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Corporate Liability and Customs: Who Makes the Rules?

            Michele Forte

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Policy, Practical and Legal issues in challenging Taxation Measures by International Arbitration

            Riyaz Dattu
           
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Work - Life Balance and the Generational Gap in the Legal Workplace: What is a Young Lawyer to Do?

            O. Kip Dillihay II

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Charisma, Influence and Persuasion:  Mastering the Art of First Impressions

            Olivia Fox Cabane

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Deans' Roundtable: International Practice and Legal Education - Is it Time for Specialization?

           
            Dean David M. Schizer

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Data Protection and Employee Monitoring:  A Transatlantic Perspective

            Lisa Sotto

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Pathways to Employment in International Law (Non-CLE Program)

            Marit Rasmussen

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
The Relevance of Customs/Trade/Export Control in the Merger/Acquisition Context

            James Bartlett

THURSDAY, APRIL 3

8:30 am - 10:00 am
The Implications of  the SEC’s Likely Recognition of International Financial Reporting Standards for U.S. and Foreign Issuers

            Liza McAndrew Moberg

8:30 am - 10:00 am
Perspectives on Universal Jurisdiction, Extraterritoriality and the Future of Alien Tort Statute Litigation:  Talisman and other Recent Cases

            H. Scott Fairley

            Owen Pell

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
The Increasing Reach of  U.S. International Criminal Enforcement Efforts:  UK and U.S. Perspectives

            Sarah FitzGerald

10:30 am – 12:00 pm
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 60:  Progress on Its Promise?

            Heather Grady

            Barry F. Lowenkron   
            Michael Posner
            Joanna Weschler

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Cross Border Practice Rules:  Remedies in Search of a Problem?

            Sydney M. Cone

            Peter Ehrenhaft

            Isabel C. Franco

            Alison Hook

            Elizabeth Lacy

            Carole Silver

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
The Fabled Northwest Passage: Global Warming, Canadian Sovereignty and the Shortest Europe-Asia Shipping Route

            Margaret Tomlinson
            John Norton Moore
            Scott Borgerson

            Elizabeth May

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Hot Topics in Doing Business in China: What You Need to Know Now

            Amy Sommers

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Investment Arbitration at a Crossroads:  Latin American States Reject International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

            Ignacio L. Torterola

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Post-Enron, Gatekeepers and Corporate Responsibility

            Bernice Leber

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Your Positive Professional Brand Law Practice

            Diane M. Costigan

FRIDAY     APRIL 4

8:30 am - 10:00 am
UIA Presents: Managing Energy to Achieve Energy/Sustainable Development

            Christopher J. McKenzie
            Paul Kaufman

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
The Foreign Legal Consultant: Your Guide in Cross-Border Transactions

            Jose Antonio Munoz

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
A Critical Analysis of Public Private Partnerships in the U.S., Brazil and Argentina

            Joel Moser

            Sergio André Laclau Marques
            Cecilia Mairal

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
A Trade Lawyer’s Guide to the New UNCITRAL Convention Governing Carriage of Goods by Sea

             
            Mary Helen Carlson

            Steven Snell
            Michael F. Sturley

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm
China’s First Comprehensive Antitrust Statute

            William Blumenthal

            Yee Wah Chin

            Wilmer Hale

            James J. O'Connell

            Lester Ross

            Wang Xiaoye

            Zhu Zhongliang


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