The Interdisciplinary Association of Comparative and Private International Law, in cooperation with the University of Vienna, the University of California Berkeley, the Revue critique de droit international privé, and the Austrian Ministry of Justice, will host a conference on 20 June 2024 to honour Albert Armin Ehrenzweig and his extraordinary jurisprudential legacy, which will be revisited from today’s perspective. For further information, please see the flyer.
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From 11 to 12 April 2024, a conference on “Digital Assets and Private International Law” will be held at the University of Vienna.
Outline:
Digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and other tokens, have become important as objects of investment and trade. They are recorded on the blockchain, an electronic ledger held in identical form on servers (nodes) all over the world. Therefore, the determination of the governing law presents particular challenges. This conference will explore whether Private International Law methodology can be successfully applied to digital assets or whether it needs to be changed in light of the ‘blockchain revolution’.
Date: 11 and 12 April 2024
Place: Juridicum. Schottenbastei 10-16, A-1010 Vienna, roof top floor
Format:
The conference will take place in a hybrid format….
The Interdisciplinary Association of Comparative and Private International Law (IACPIL) is hosting a conference on the Legal Protection of Vulnerable Adults in Central and Eastern Europe.
The aging population and the rise of age-related diseases result in the urgent need to address the legal issues surrounding vulnerable adults. Beyond the challenges posed by the aging demographic, other vulnerable groups also warrant legal protection. Conducting a comparative analysis of the prevailing legal frameworks for protecting vulnerable adults becomes imperative to gain insights into effective solutions and identify areas requiring further attention.
This conference will therefore explore the protection of vulnerable adults in Central and Eastern Europe including cross-border issues. Masha Antokolskaia and Bea Verschraegen, renowned experts in the fields of comparative…
The Interdisciplinary Association of Comparative and Private International Law mourns the death of Peter Mankowski. Our sympathy goes to his family. Board of IACPIL Bea Verschraegen, Vice President of IACPIL, has published an obituary to Peter Mankowski. For the obituary Prof. Dr. Peter Mankowski in memoriam ZfRV 2022-9 92
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Security and other interests in digital assets
A report on the progress of the Uniform Law Commission and American Law Institute Committee on the Uniform Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies, with comparative law remarks from a European point of view
Wednesday, 2 June 2021, 17:00–19:00 CET or 11:00–13:00 ET
Welcome and introduction
Spyridon Bazinas
IACPIL, Board Member
Observer, ULC/ALI Committee on the Uniform
Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies
Progress report
Edwin E. Smith
Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, New York and Boston
Uniform Law Commissioner from the Common-wealth
of Massachusetts currently serving as chair of the ULC/ALI
Committee on the Uniform Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies
Comparative law remarks from a European point of view
Andrea Tosato
Associate Professor…
Company Law An Entity Theory
11 February 2021, 5 pm – 7 pm (CET)
Spyridon Bazinas
IACPIL, Board Member
Welcome and Introduction
Eva Micheler
London School of Economics
Company Law – An Entity Theory
Walter Doralt
University of Graz
Entity Theory and Legislative Activism: The Austrian Limited
Discussion
Organisations are a social phenomenon outside of company law. Company law finds this phenomenon and provides it with a legal structure.
It makes available legal personality and a pro-cedural framework facilitating corporate deci-sion making and corporate acting. Company law evolves with a view to supporting auto-nomous action through organisations. Eva Micheler advances an entity theory of com-pany law. It builds on the insight that orga-nisations or firms are autonomous actors in their own right. They are more than…
Company Law An Entity Theory
11 February 2021, 5 pm – 7 pm (CET)
Spyridon Bazinas
IACPIL, Board Member
Welcome and Introduction
Eva Micheler
London School of Economics
Company Law – An Entity Theory
Walter Doralt
University of Graz
Entity Theory and Legislative Activism: The Austrian Limited
Discussion
Organisations are a social phenomenon outside of company law. Company law finds this phenomenon and provides it with a legal structure.
It makes available legal personality and a pro-cedural framework facilitating corporate deci-sion making and corporate acting. Company law evolves with a view to supporting auto-nomous action through organisations. Eva Micheler advances an entity theory of com-pany law. It builds on the insight that orga-nisations or firms are autonomous actors in their own right. They are more than…
Celebrating the 40th birthday of the Austrian Private International Law Act, scholars from numerous European countries have contributed to a festschrift of more than 400 pages edited by Florian Heindler (Sigmund Freud University Vienna). The essays focus on the possible reform of the Austrian PIL Act, its value, and its role as a national PIL Codification influenced and partly derogated by EU legislation. The contributions from Andrea Bonomi (in English), Axel Flessner, Fabienne Jault-Seseke, Thomas John, Caroline Sophie Rupp, Thomas Bachner, Ena-Marlis Bajons, Wolfgang Faber, Edwin Gitschthaler, Florian Heindler, Helmut Heiss, Brigitta Lurger, Martina Melcher, Andreas Schwartze, and Bea Verschraegen deal with the general part of the PIL Act and specific issues such as conflict of laws in family, property, succession, and…
Blockchain and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions: A question of compatibility
11 April 2019, 6 pm
Sigmund Freud University Freudplatz 3, 1020 Vienna, Austria
Dr. Orkun Akseli
(Durham University Law School)
Spyridon V. Bazinas Introductory Remarks
Prof. Akseli will present the potential use of a blockchain based distributed ledger platform as a registry for security rights as well as its interac-tion with the principles of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions (‘MLST’). This type of technology has the potential to revolutionise the third party effectiveness of security inter-ests. In this process, the modern principles of the MLST could play a pivotal role in reducing the cost of credit and expanding the financial inclu-sion of small businesses and individuals. Block-chain and distributed…
Einladung zur Tagung Internationaler Kinderschutz
Donnerstag, 17. Januar 2019
09:15-17:15 Uhr
Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität
Raum 317
Freudplatz 3
1020 Wien
Im Rahmen einer erstmaligen Zusammenarbeit zur wissenschaftliche Vertiefung der mit dem Internationalen Kinderschutz verbundenen Rechtsfragen laden die Österreichische Gesellschaft für Familien- und Vermögensrecht (ogfv) und die Interdisziplinäre Gesellschaft für Komparatistik und Kollisionsrecht (IGKK) zu einer Tagung am 17.1.2019 zu aktuellen Fragen des Kinderschutzes.
Mit der Anmeldung zur Veranstaltung erklären Sie sich einverstanden, dass Ihre Daten durch die ogfv zum Zweck der Organisation und Durchführung der Veranstaltung verarbeitet werden. Eine Weitergabe Ihrer Daten an Dritte erfolgt nicht.
Der Bogen spannt sich von der Umsetzung der EU-Grundrechtecharta über Fragen der Leihmutterschaft bis hin zur Problematik der Kindesentführung. Breiter Raum wird auch den immer brisanteren Rechtsfragen des Kinderschutzes im Zusammenhang mit den neuen Medien gewidmet. Alle genannten…