2015
On 25 and 26 November 2015, the University of Western Australia, Faculty of Law, Perth (Australia) will be hosting the 7th Transnational Commercial Law Teachers Meeting, primarily devoted to the theme ‘The Impact of Transnational Commercial Law on the Teaching of Domestic Law’.
The programme of the conference
Wednesday 25 November 2015 |
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9.00 |
Welcome Address, Professor Erika Techera, Dean of Law, UWA |
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9.15 |
Introduction of Conference theme, Professor Bruno Zeller, UWA |
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9.30 |
Professor Charles W. Mooney, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Philadelphia PA, USA Is the unification and harmonization of transnational commercial law useful and worthwhile? |
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10.30 |
Morning break |
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11.00 |
Professor Peter Winship, Southern Methodist University, School of Law, Dallas TX, USA Transnational Commercial Law as an Illustration of Transnational Law |
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12.00 |
Eva Chye, UWA Cape Town Convention: the Australian perspective |
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12.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30 |
Professor Gabriel Moens, Curtin University, Perth & Sydney, Australia The Lure of Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Education: Its Impact on the Core Law Curriculum |
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14.30 |
James Hayes, UWA, Should Australia adopt the Rotterdam Rules? |
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15.00 |
Professor Jeffrey Wool (by Skype) Secretary General, Aviation Working Group, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle WA, USA Teaching Comparative Commercial Law: content and linkages to TCL |
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16.00 |
Professor Caslav Pejovic, Kyushu University, Faculty of Law, Fukuoka, Japan The connecting points between carriage by sea, letters of credit and international sales |
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16.15 |
Tour of UWA Campus |
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16.45 |
Dean’s Drinks Event |
Thursday 26 November 2015 |
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9.00 |
Dr. Thomas Keijser, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Examination of the theme 'natural resources and teaching transnational commercial law' |
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10.00 |
Professor Herbert Kronke, Heidelberg University, Germany The Impact of TCL on Teaching the Law of Bank Payment Undertakings (Letters of Credit and Guarantees) |
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11.00 |
Morning break |
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11.30 |
Professor Henry Gabriel, Elon University, School of Law, Greensboro NC, USA Teaching international secured transactions |
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12.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30 |
Professor Sieg Eiselen, UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa Teaching Transnational Law in the African context |
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14.30 |
Professor Camilla Andersen, UWA. Equity in Active Learning and Peer-Review in Designing International Commercial Law PG Units |
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15.30 |
Closing Remarks |
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18.00 |
Conference dinner sponsored by Clayton Utz |
