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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 ledger technology through disintermediation have the necessary characteristics to decentralise and streamline the registra-tion of security interests. The technology can also support the taking of security interests on digital assets. These assets include receivables denomi-nated as cryptocurrencies, units denominated as cryptocurrencies, blockchain based tokens repre-senting negotiable documents and blockchain ba-sed tokens representing securities.

Invitation: Blockchain and the UNCITRAL Model…

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 binationaler Beziehungen gewinnt auch…

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

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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
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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 De Souza (EU Commission)…

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…