Events

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), Freud (who taught that we should doubt our psychological motives), and Marx (who taught that we should doubt our economic and political motives).  These three great types of doubt have received support and energy in what is now widely referred to as the era of “post-truth” politics.  In a “post-truth,” or “non-truth” political or legal space, canons that call for careful weighing...

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 US and Canadian approaches 16:40 – 16:55 Christian Heinze (Universität Hannover) The law applicable to third-party effects of assignment and con-flict rules for insolvency Discussion Coffee Break Panel 2 The law applicable to proprietary effects of transactions in securities 18:00 – 18:15 Michael Müller (Universität Bayreuth) Approaches to the law applicable to proprietary effects of trans-actions in securities taken in uniform law 18:15 – 18:30 Nadia...

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 rounded up by a final get-together at the buffet. program pdf: invitation IACPIL   Please register by 3 December 2018. office@igkk.org

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 into force for Austria (1-X-2015) and all other Member States, including the Uni-ted Kingdom, of the European Union as well as non EU trading partners such as Singapur, Mexiko and Montenegro. China has signed the Convention in December 2017. Please register by 12 December 2018 office@igkk.org invitation: IGKK_Reducing risk in cross-border transactions

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 Themenfelder stellen eine Rechtsordnung, die sich den Schutz der Kinder zur Aufgabe macht, vor besondere Herausforderungen. Kinderrechte sind ein fundamentaler Bestandteil des Familienrechts. Sie sind durch die UN-Kinderrechtskonvention und EU-Grundrechtecharta abgesichert und genießen in Österreich auch verfassungsrechtlichen Schutz. Inhaltlich stehen die Kinderrechte an der Schnittstelle vom Schutz der Betroffenen, den pflichtgebunden Elternrechten und der Intervention durch öffentliche Stellen. Durch die Zunahme...