25 February 13

ILA Insolvency Conference - This Friday!!

The ILA Insolvency Conference is in Cambridge on Friday this week! Here are the details: 

"The details of the forthcoming ILA Academic Forum have been published. The event is going to be splendid. Here are the schedule details:

"Trinity Hall Conference Centre, Cambridge - 1st March 2013

March 2013

11am –11.30am

Registration

11.30am –11.40am

Chair's welcome

Sarah Worthington

Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge

11.40am –12.40pm

EC Regulation on Insolvency: is there a principled case for reform? Views from

different Member States

Wolf-Georg Ringe

Professor of International Commercial Law, Copenhagen Business School

Francisco Garcimartin

Professor of Private International Law, Linklaters SLP

Dr Kristin van Zwieten

John Collier Fellow in Law, University of Cambridge

Professor Irene Lynch Fannon

Head, College of Business and Law, University College Cork

12.40pm –1.10pm

Creditor Profiles in CVLs and Administrations: Who gets the raw deal, and do we

need to deal with it?

Dr Sandra Frisby

Associate Professor and Reader in Company and Commercial Law,

University of Nottingham

1.10pm – 2pm

Lunch

2pm –

2.30pm

Winning ILA Academic Competition paper

To be selected by the Academic Forum committee of the ILA

2.30pm – 3.30pm

Divided by a Common Law - the divergence between the US and UK approach to

anti-deprivation, ISDA and claw-back

Professor Jay L Westbrook

Benno C. Schmidt Chair of Business Law, University of

Texas School of Law

Jennifer Marshall

Restructuring Partner, Allen & Overy LLP

3.30pm –3.45pm

Tea & Coffee Break

3.45pm -4.15pm

OTC Derivatives, the Courts and Regulatory Reform

Dr Jo Braithwaite

Lecturer in International Commercial Finance Law, Department of Law,

London School of Economics and Political Science

4.15pm –5.30pm

The Supreme Debate: Panellists argue the case for their choice of the most

influential Supreme Court (or House of Lords) decision in the field of restructuring

and insolvency in the last decade

Professor Sir Roy Goode QC

Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Oxford, and

Founder of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London

David Chivers QC

Erskine Chambers

Gabriel Moss QC

South Square

Professor Dan Prentice

Erskine Chambers, and Emeritus Allen & Overy Professor of

Company Law, University of Oxford

5.30pm – 5.45pm

Chair's close."

The conference also has an attractive new paper slot for younger academics in the field. Here are the details:

"The extended programme this year demonstrates the commitment of the ILA Council to foster closer links between its academic members and their colleagues in private practice, and to that end full-time academic Forum attendees are also offered discounted rates to attend the ILA Annual Conference in Cambridge the following day on 2 March 2013.

Younger academics are especially welcome to the Forum, and one slot in the Forum programme is reserved for a paper from one of them.  That paper will be chosen by way of an ILA competition.  Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted to Professor Sarah Worthington (the Chair of the 2013 Forum), University of Cambridge, at sew1003@cam.ac.uk  together with a short CV (maximum 2 pages), by 5pm on Monday 7th January 2013.  The winning paper will be selected for a 30 minute presentation at the Forum and a decision will be made by 18 January 2012. Papers and any accompanying slides will be expected to be delivered no later than 22 February 2013.  Papers may be on any subject relating to insolvency law (domestic, comparative, international, corporate or personal), but the paper should not have been previously published nor accepted for publication as at the date of submission of the abstract.

Please feel free to forward this email to any academics you think may be interested in attending the 2013 Academic Forum, submitting an abstract for the competition, or simply applying to become an academic member of the ILA.

To attend the 2013 Academic Forum, please complete and return the booking form  to Nicola Garrett, CMS Cameron McKenna LLP at Nicola.Garrett@cms-cmck.com (please do not reply to this email). Attendance is free, and for full time academic, reasonable UK travel costs will also be reimbursed by the ILA.

We very much look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in Cambridge next year.

Yours sincerely

Stephen Davies Q.C
On behalf of the ILA Council"

20 February 13

ABI competition for students

The folowing has been published: 

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The Deadline is Coming, The Deadline is Coming! ABI's Fifth Annual Bankruptcy Law Student Writing Competition The deadline for entries in next Friday, March 1! Your students can win cash prizes and be published in a national trade journal while you gain visibility for your law school. Papers are being accepted now through March 1, 2013. Students can stop bypapers.abi.org to create an account today and submit a paper in a flash. It's easy, fast and free! Full details about the competition, including previous winners and participating schools, can be found at papers.abi.org as well. - 1st Prize Winner will receive $2,000, sponsored by Invotex, and will be published in the ABI Journal (read by more than 15,000 professionals monthly) - 2nd Prize Winner will receive $1,250, sponsored by Jenner & Block LLP, and will be published in one of ABI's 17 committee newsletters - 3rd Prize Winner will receive $750, sponsored by Thompson & Knight LLP, and will be published in one of ABI's 17 committee newsletters All participants will receive a one year ABI membership just for entering! Find more details at papers.abi.org! Please give the ABI Membership Department a call at 703.739.0800 with any questions. We're here to help!