The Embedded Firm, 3rd International CLPE Workshop

Agenda:

Organizers:

PEER ZUMBANSEN, OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL, and

CYNTHIA WILLIAMS, OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL

Sponsored by

THE CLPE FUND, OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL,

the SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

The CLPE Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy Network

at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto is committed

to interdisciplinary research among lawyers, economists, historians,

sociologists and political scientists. CLPE Research Associates and Scholars

come from universities around the world. For more information,

go to:www.comparativeresearch.net

Governing Contracts - Public and Private Perspectives

Agenda:

Moderator: Mark Piel (LL.B. candidate, 2007, Osgoode Hall Law School)

Societal Governance Through Contract - Professor Peer Zumbansen (Osgoode Hall Law School, Director, CLPE)

Civil Society Constitutionalism: The Power of Contract Law - Professor Marc Amstutz/ Dr. Vaios Karavas (Université de Fribourg, )

The New Public Contracting: Public versus Private Ordering? - Professor Peter-Vincent Jones (University of Leeds School of Law, )

Relational Contract and the Nature of Private Ordering - Professor David Campbell (University of Durham, )

Moderator: Corey Wall  (LL.B. candidate, 2007, Osgoode Hall Law School)

The Role of Contracts and Networks in Public Governance - Professor Karl-Heinz Ladeur (University of Hamburg)

Bureaucracy, Contracts and Democracy in Administrative Law: Outsourcing Prison Health Care in New York City - Professor Alfred Aman Jr., (Indiana University School of Law)

Through Virtue to Trust: Governing Financial Services Contracts - Professor Toni Williams (Osgoode Hall Law School)

Contractual Thinking and the Business Corporation - Simon Archer (Ph.D. Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School)

Changing Contract Lenses: Renegotiations in English, New Zealand, Japanese, US and International Sales Law and Practice - Dr. Luke Nottage (University of Sydney, Australia)

Exhibition Opening at Craig Scott Gallery, 95 Berkeley Street, Toronto

Ron Eady, "Stages of Mind" http://www.craigscottgallery.com/

Moderator: Rachel Schipper (LL.B. Candidate 2007, Osgoode Hall Law School)

Molecular Federalism and the Structures of Private Lawmaking - Professor David V. Snyder (Tulane Law School)

The Making of Transnational Contract Law - Professor Gralf-Peter Calliess (University of Munich School of Law)

The Social Models of Continental and Anglo-American Contract Law - Andreas Maurer (LL.M. Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School)

Restitution in: Why the Refuses to Join the Global Restitution Party - Professor Chaim Saiman (Villanova Law School)

Moderator: Ana Paula  Akerman Sheps (LL.M. candidate, 2007, Osgoode Hall Law School)

Contract and Conflicts Among Transnational Norms - Professor Robert Wai (Osgoode Hall Law School)

The True New Lex Mercatoria - Professor Ralf Michaels (Duke Law School)

Information on Publication of Workshop Proceedings and Conclusion

CANADIAN GERMAN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION 14th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Agenda:

CANADIAN GERMAN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION

Kanadisch-Deutsche Juristenvereinigung

14th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

14. Jahreskongress der Kanadisch-Deutschen Juristenvereinigung

OSGOODE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTRE

26th Floor, 1 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Canada

International Real Estate Investments: Canada and Germany

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2006 and SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2006

Osgoode Hall Law School of York University is Canada's number 1 ranked law school by Canadian Lawyer magazine.  Its Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy program (CLPE) is cosponsoring this conference at the Osgoode Professional Development Centre together with the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (CCGES) at York.

The Canadian German Lawyers Association is a nonprofit organization founded in Germany in 1992 for legal and business professionals in Europe and Canada that fosters business relationships and professional study:  an excellent networking and intellectual forum for lawyers and business people involved in international business.

20:00   Get-Together at the Esplanade Bier Markt - 58 The Esplanade, Toronto

09:00   Registration and Coffee

09:35 Welcoming Remarks: Dr. Franz Tepper, German Vice President of the Canadian German Lawyers Association and Thomas von Hahn, Canadian Co-President of the Canadian German Lawyers Association

09:45 Structuring the Transaction: Case Study on Purchase and Sale Agreements and Leasing from the Canadian Perspective; Neill J. Kalvin, Robins Appleby & Taub LLP, Toronto

10:30 Structuring the Transaction: Case Study on Purchase and Sale Agreements and Leasing from the German Perspective; Stefan Rizor, Osborne Clarke, Cologne

11:15 Coffee Break

11:45 Structuring the Transaction: Tax Issues for investors into Germany; Speaker: Peter Fabry, Rölfs Partner, Munich

12:30 Luncheon

            ; ; Guest Speaker: Christian Strauch, KG Allgemeine Leasing KG, Toronto

14:00 Structuring the Transaction: Tax Issues for investors into Canada; Ken Snider, Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP Toronto

14:30 German Open and Closed End Funds; G-REITS, Dr. Constantin M. Lachner, Lachner Graf von Westphalen Spamer, Frankfurt am Main

15:15 Coffee Break

15:30 Panel Discussion: Investment Funds in Canada and Germany

            Moderator: Alexander Sennecke, Brans, Lehun, Baldwin, LLP, Toronto

18:30 Drinks and Dinner: Canoe Restaurant, 54th Floor, Toronto Dominion Bank Tower, 66 Wellington Street West, Toronto

9:15 Registration and coffee

9:30 Financing: German Banks lending on the Security of Canadian Real Estate, Thomas von Hahn, Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP Toronto

10:15 Coffee Break

10:30 Financing: Selected Problems concerning the CrossBorder Financing of Real Estate in Germany, Zvi Tirosh, Arnecke Siebold, Frankfurt

11:15 Soil and Groundwater Contamination Issues in German Share and Asset Deals, Dr. Ludger Giesberts, LLM, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Cologne

1:00 Closing Luncheon: Pearl Harbourfront Restaurant, 207 Queens Quay West, located on the Toronto waterfront

The above program is subject to change without further notice.  Speakers may be substituted or cancelled at the discretion of the organizers of the conference.