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Admission FREE, no booking required. Speaker: Graham Dallas Bio:  Graham is a Business Development Manager with Aker Solutions since 2015, focusing on brownfield maintenance, modifications, operations and decommissioning. Graham has worked in engineering for over 25 years, with the last 20 in oil and gas. He started his career as a Mechanical Technician Apprentice...

Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: Investment arbitration in the European Union is currently experiencing one of its most crucial challenges. At EU level, there are different opinions claiming that the applicability of investment treaties to resolve intra-EU disputes is no longer valid. The main argument flagged is the existence of a...

Speaker: Dr. Michael LaBelle Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: This presentation is topical because the US and other nations have loosened their guidelines on forward looking revenue statements for publicly traded corporations, particularly with regards to innovative technologies. This policy was originally intended to facilitate information to the market for industries from Silicon...

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Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: The EU member States seem to have prioritised the reception of asylum seekers and the development of short-term assistance programmes. Yet strategies to tackle the long-term legal consequences of the refugee flows into Europe are less clear. While those short-term interventions are of course important, European...

Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: If and when landowners wish to rearrange their affairs and no longer own a particular piece of land, the normal course of action would be to transfer that land to an aspiring owner (for a suitable price). In a buoyant market, this will often be an...

Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: A number of cases are currently open under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) against some European Member States, addressing a number of common issues on both jurisdiction and the merits. However, the few awards rendered until now are not fully consistent, so making the outcome of...

Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: As more and more states discover new energy resources, particularly oil and gas, there is much discussion about what type of legal framework should be created to effectively regulate the extraction of the resource and ensure that such extraction benefits the country and its people. Too...

Speaker: Professor Phillip Hellwege Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract: On the professorial level women are still underrepresented in legal academia in Germany: less than 20% of all law professors are women. The problem has been discussed for more than two decades. Different measures have been taken. Books on gender studies fill whole...

Speaker: David Campin (University of Queensland, Australia) Admission FREE, no booking required. Abstract Hydraulic fracturing is a process applied to the exploitation of hydrocarbon and other resources, to increase fluid conductivity to a production well. The process entails environmental risks which are aimed to be managed under specific rules in most jurisdictions where...

Abstract Having regard to national case-law, some critical issues arise from the application Brussels IIa Regulation (No 2201/2003) in the Italian legal order. Indeed, Italian judges face serious difficulties in addressing private international law aspects when called to decide a case on responsibility matters with transnational implications. Such issues include, for...