Professor Scott Brewer will present a lecture on the topic of the relation between evidence and reason in a world of “post truth” politics and law.  The Enlightenment project sought to place reason at the center of understanding both the world and the human being.  On this view, evidence was an essential tool of reasoned understanding – evidence from the world, from the study of humans’ political and social existence, and from introspection of the human mind itself.  But this faith in reason and reasoned evidence became, and remains, deeply shaken.  In part, this shaken faith was enabled by the work of three great Doubters: Nietzsche (who taught that we should be suspicious of our religious, moral, and political beliefs and actions),...

IACPIL Conference Receivables and Securities in Private International Law 29 November 2018 Sigmund Freud University Freudplatz 3, 1020 Vienna, Austria 15:30 Welcome Panel 1 The law applicable to third-party effects of assignment of claims 15:40 – 15:55 Ondrej Vondracek (EU Commission) The proposal for a regulation on the law applicable to third-party effects of assignment COM(2018) 96 final – An insider perspective 15:55 – 16:10 Spyridon Bazinas Approaches to the law applicable to third-party effects of assi-gnment taken in uniform law 16:10 – 16:25 Eva-Maria Kieninger (Universität Würzburg) The law applicable to third-party effects of assignment – conside-rations from a continental European perspective 16:25 – 16:40 Michel Deschamps (McCarthy) The law applicable to third-party effects of assignment – comparison between the Commission proposal and the...

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 in private law regulation of digital assets is...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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