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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…

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…

Reducing risk in cross-border transactions
The Role of the Hague Choice of Court Convention
13 December 2018, 6 pm
Sigmund Freud University Freudplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria
Thomas John (ACIArb)
Hague Conference on Private International Law, Permanent Bureau

Thomas John works as Principal Legal Officer at the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Confe-rence of Private Internation Law. He will di-scuss identification of typical risks in cross-border transactions with a particular focus on certain transactional, litigation and enforce-ment risks typically encountered by parties. While domestic settings are used for compa-rison purposes, Thomas will concentrate on the international aspects of those risks, intro-ducing risk management and mitigation strategies, including as available under the 2005 Hague Choice of Court Convention which has entered…

Current legislative trends in private law regulation of digital assets
4 December 2018, 6 pm

IACPIL in cooperation with Stadler Völkel Rechtsanwälte GmbH

Sigmund Freud University Freudplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria

Chair: Florian Heindler, IACPIL

18:00-18:20
Perspectives from the UK – Findings of the UK Cryptoassets Taskforce Final Report
Burcu Yüksel, University of Aberdeen

18:20-18:40
Current trends in Russian Private Law Regulation of Digital Assets
Maxim Bashkatov, Moscow State University

18:40-19:00
Digital Assets – current state of jurisprudence and common positions in Germany
Anton Zimmermann, Universität Heidelberg

19:00-19:20
Private Law Regulation of Digital Assets in Austria
-Suggestions and Considerations
Oliver Völkel, Stadler Völkel Rechtsanwälte GmbH

Discussion

The talk on current legislative trends…