Events Calendar
Major Symposia
International Economic Law Forums
Stock Exchange and other Breakfast Roundtable Series
Brown Bag Luncheons
Distinguished Visitors

IBL 20th Anniversary Celebration
On April 8, 2008, Brooklyn Law School will celebrate the 20th anniversary and naming of the Center for the Study of International Business Law in honor of Dennis J. Block '67. In 1987, the Law School became a leader in international education by establishing the Center to study and shape the laws and policies driving globalization. In the years since its inception, the Center has evolved to meet the needs of the international business law community, expanding its programs and adopting a multidisciplinary approach. Last year, the Center was named for Block, one of the world's leading corporate attorneys and an adjunct professor at the Law School.

Major Symposia
Since its inception in 1988, the Center has held symposia on topics as varied as international trade, banking, international taxation, pension reform, and intellectual property law. These programs have brought together leading practitioners, high-level government officials, and legal scholars from around the world to discuss important public policy issues of concern to the international, financial and trading markets.

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International Economic Law Forums
The Center sponsors forums where students and faculty meet to discuss international economic law topics. These programs provide opportunities for scholars from Brooklyn Law School and faculty members of other law schools around the country to present their works in progress to an audience of faculty, student fellows, and invited guests at the School. The intellectual exchange of ideas that takes place allows presenters to refine their papers' arguments through an interactive discussion and exposes the Center's participants to new ideas in the field in a dynamic, informal setting.

Participants have included faculty members from Tufts University, Cornell Law School, University of Michigan Law School, George Washington University Law School, Fordham University Law School, Indiana University School of Law, Temple University School of Law, Harvard Law School, George Mason University School of Law, University of Ghent (Belgium), University of Hull Law School (England), Chicago-Kent College of Law, Hofstra Law School and Suffolk University Law School.

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Stock Exchange and other Breakfast Roundtable Series
The Center co-sponsors with the New York Stock Exchange a Breakfast Roundtable Series on the future of the international equity markets. Participants include Wall Street practitioners, members of the Center faculty, and international business law fellows. The Breakfast Roundtables are generally held at the Exchange on a quarterly basis. On occasion, there are other sponsors, such as investment banking and law firms, and these programs are held at various sites in New York City. Speakers have included such prominent participants as a former U.S. Attorney General, Commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission, top officials from the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve System, and foreign securities regulators.

In the past few years, Breakfast Roundtables have been expanded to include additional international business areas. Recent programs have covered topics in the areas of International Trade/Antitrust, International Intellectual Property, International Tax and International Bankruptcy Law. For students, this is a unique experience. Not only do they meet informally over breakfast with members of the Wall Street legal and financial community, but they also witness lively and informative discussions on issues of critical interest to financial practitioners.

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Events Calendar

Spring 2008 Semester

Friday, April 18, 2008
Lunch in Honor of the Graduating Fellows
Subotnick Center
(For Fellows and Steering Committee Members Only)

Thursday, April 10, 2008
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
Faculty Workshop: “Taxing the Non-Market Economy”
Tsilly Dagan
Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University Law School
Subotnick Center

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
20th Anniversary Cocktail Reception
Feil Hall

Monday, March 31, 2008
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
Graduating Fellows Final Paper Presentations
Daniel Bae, Margaret Hanson
Subotnick Center
(For Fellows and Steering Committee Members Only)

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Graduating Fellows Final Paper Presentations
James Antoszewski, Jennifer Kernkamp, You Jung Park, Rebecca Sendker
Subotnick Center
(For Fellows and Steering Committee Members Only)

Monday, March 10, 2008
4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Graduating Fellows Final Paper Presentations
Susan Greene, Anna Kornikova, Sara Schuman, Kesav Wable
Subotnick Center
(For Fellows and Steering Committee Members Only)

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
4:00 p.m.
International Economic Law Forum: “Constitutional Adjudication in the WTO”
Professor Sungjoon Cho
Assistant Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Room 504
(For Faculty and Fellows)

Friday, February 29, 2008
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Symposium: The “Going Private” of U.S. Capital Markets
Co-sponsored by the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law and by the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law, in partnership with the SEC Historical Society (CLE Credit Offered)
Subotnick Center

Thursday, February 28, 2008
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
Faculty Workshop: “You Can’t Win, You Can’t Break Even, And You Can’t Get Out of the Game: Discontinuing The Cycle Of Racial Inequities In Health Care Forty-Four Years After The Passage of Title VI”
Professor Colin Picker
Daniel L. Renner/UMKC Scholar & Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Subotnick Center

Monday, February 25, 2008
8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
NYSE Breakfast Roundtable: “Recent Moves in EU Securities Regulation and their Implications for the US”
Crispin Waymouth
First Secretary, Delegation of the European Commission to the United States
11 Wall Street
(By Invitation Only)

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
1:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m.
Brown Bag Lunch: “Commercial Law Reform in Rwanda”
Professor Winnie Taylor
Visiting Professor of Law
Room 605

Thursday, January 31, 2008
8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
NYSE Breakfast Roundtable: “The Emerging Law of International Commerce”
Jernej Sekolec
Secretary, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL); and Director, International Trade Law Division,United Nations Office of Legal Affairs Harvard Club of New York City
35 West 44th Street
(By Invitation Only)

Thursday, January 17, 2008
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
Faculty Workshop: “The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry”
Professor Lawrence Mitchell
Theodore Rinehart Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
Subotnick Center

Fall 2007 Semester

Friday, November 16, 2007
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Symposium: Corporate Liability for Grave Breaches of International Law
Co-Sponsored by The Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law and the Brooklyn Journal of International Law (CLE Credit Offered)
Subotnick Center

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
1:00-2:00 p.m.
International Economic Law Forum: “Data Theft? Cybercrime and the Criminalization of Data”
Dr. Jonathan Clough
Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Subotnick Center
(For Fellows and Steering Committee Members)

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
6:30 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.
Barry L. Zaretsky Roundtable Program: “Hedge Funds, Claims Trading, Credit Derivatives and the Changing Dynamic of Chapter 11”
Place TBA

Friday, October 19, 2007
8:00-9:30 a.m.
IBL Breakfast Roundtable: Trade: “The Antidote to Terrorism?”
Judge Delissa A. Ridgway
United States Court of International Trade Offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
4 Times Square (42nd or 43rd Street Entrance)
(By Invitation Only)

Thursday, October 18, 2007
1:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m.
Faculty Workshop: “Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance”
Frank Partnoy
Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law
Room 605

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
1:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m.
Brown Bag Lunch: Topic TBA
Gabrielle Brussel
Vice President, Legal Affairs and North American Counsel at JCDecaux North America, JCDecaux North American is part of an international media and communications
Room 605
(For Fellows and Steering Committee Members)

Thursday, October 4, 2007
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Faculty Workshop: “A New Tort Code Emerges In China”
Professor George Conk
Adjunct Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Subotnick Center

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
1:00-2:00 p.m.
International Economic Law Forum: “Harmonization of Securities Regulation in the EU: Assessments and Prospects”
Professor Takis Tridimas
Professor of Law, Dickinson School of Law, Penn State and Sir John Lubbock Professor of Banking Law, Queen Mary College, University of London
Subotnick Center
(For Faculty and Fellows Only)

Monday, September 17, 2007
8:00-9:30 a.m.
NYSE Breakfast Roundtable: “Market Regulation in a Global Setting”
Dr. Erik Sirri
Director of the Division of Market Regulation, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
11 Wall Street
(By Invitation Only)

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
4:00 p.m.
First Meeting of The Dennis J. Block International Business Law Center
Subotnick Center
(For Fellows and Steering Committee Members Only)

Thursday, August 30, 2007
1:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m.
Faculty Workshop: “The Incomplete Global Market for Tax Information”
Professor Steven Dean
Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Subotnick Conference Center