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 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

Monday, January 26, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast Roundtable: "International Competition of Investment Companies: Is it Domicile and Structure or Just Taxes?"
Andrew J. Donohue,
Director, Division of Investment Management, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
1177 Avenue of the Americas between 45th and 46th Streets,
New York, New York
(By Invitation Only)

Thursday, January 29, 2009
1:00 p.m.
Faculty Workshop
Edward J. Janger, David M. Barse Professor of Law
(Optional Event for the Fellows and must RSVP on the website)

Thursday, February 5, 2009
5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion: "Trade Policy and Global Food Crisis"
Co-Sponsored by the Dennis J. Block Center for International Business Law, the International Law Society, and CITBA (Customs and International Trade Bar Association)
Subotnick Conference Center
(Fellows are expected to attend)

Wednesday, February 11, 2009
1:00 p.m.
Brown Bag Lunch
Rebekah Rollo, former fellow class of ’04 Associate, Clifford Chance
Room 605
(Fellows are expected to attend)

Friday, February 27, 2009
9:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m.
Symposium: "Securities Regulation and Claims Trading"
Co-Sponsored by the Dennis J. Block Center for International Business Law and the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law
Subotnick Conference Center
(Fellows are expected to attend)

Friday, March 6, 2009
1:00 p.m.
Faculty Workshop: "An International Law of Citizenship"
Professor Peter J. Spiro, Charles R. Weiner Professor of Law
Temple University, Beasley School of Law
Subotnick Conference Center
(Optional event for the fellows, but must RSVP on the website)

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Graduating Fellows Paper Presentations
TO BE ANNOUNCED
Subotnick Conference Center
(Fellows are expected to attend)

Monday, March 23, 2009
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Graduating Fellows Paper Presentations
TO BE ANNOUNCED
Room 605
(Fellows are expected to attend)

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Graduating Fellows Paper Presentations
TO BE ANNOUNCED
Subotnick Conference Center
(Fellows are expected to attend)

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Pomerantz Lecture: "Due Diligence"
Professor Bernard S. Black,
Hayden W. Head
Regents Chair for Faculty Excellence University of Texas Law School
11th Floor, Subotnick Conference Center
(Fellows are Expected to Attend)

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
1:00 p.m.
Faculty Workshop: TO BE ANNOUNCED
Professor Wendy Gordon
Phillip S. Beck Professor of Law
Boston University School of Law
Subotnick Conference Center
(Optional event for the fellows but must RSVP on the website)

Monday, April 6, 2009
1:00 p.m.
Brown Bag Lunch: Statutory Interpretation in the EU: The Augustinian Approach
Associate Dean Larry Solan
Room 605
(Fellows are expected to attend)

Monday, April 15, 2009
1:00 p.m.
International Economic Forum: Welfare, Tax Incentives, and Global Labor Mobility
Professor Ruth Mason
University of Connecticut, School of Law
Room 605
(Fellows are expected to attend)

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch in Honor of the Graduating Fellows
Subotnick Conference Center
(Fellows are expected to attend)



Fall 2008 Semester

Monday, November 10, 2008
4:00 p.m.
Student/Faculty Brown Bag: The SuperLaw of the United States:The Global Diffusion of the American "New Deal" and the Consolidation of State Capitalism in Latin America.
Professor Diego Lopez of the University of Law in Bogota
Subotnick Conference Center
(For Faculty and International Business Law Fellows)
(Fellows are expected to attend)

Monday, October 27, 2008
4:00 p.m.
International Economic Law Forum: Principles of Normative Integration and the Allocation of International Authority: the WTO, the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, and the Rio Declaration
Tomer Broude
Assistant Professor at Georgetown Law, Assistant Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Subotnick Conference Center
(For Faculty and International Business Law Fellows)
(Fellows are expected to attend)

Friday, October 24, 2008
9:00 a.m.
Symposium: Ruling the World: Problems and Concerns of Generating International Legal Norms
Co-Sponsored by The Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law and the Brooklyn Journal of International Law
Subotnick Conference Center
(Fellows are expected to attend)

Thursday, October 23, 2008
4:00 p.m.
International Economic Law Forum: Global Institutions, Networks and Tax Reform
Professor Miranda Stewart
University of Australia, Melbourne
Subotnick Conference Center
(Fellows are expected to attend)

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
12:30 p.m.
Global Tax Reform
Co-Sponsored with the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Law with the Tax Society and the International Law Students Society
Professor Miranda Stewart
University of Australia, Melbourne
Student Lounge
(Optional Event for the Fellows)

Monday, October 13, 2008
1:00 p.m.
Brown Bag Lunch: The Theory and Practice of International Securities Law: A Look at Rule 144
Adam Fleisher, Esq.
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
Subotnick Conference Center
(For Fellows and Steering Committee Members Only)
(Fellows are expected to attend)

Tuesday, September 25, 2008
1:00 p.m.
Faculty Workshop: Shareholder Compensation as Dividend: A Response to the Circularity Argument
Professor James Park
Subotnick Conference Center
(Optional Event For the Fellows and must RSVP on the website)

Friday, September 19, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast Roundtable: International Competition of Investment Companies: Is it Domicile and Structure or Just Taxes?
Andrew J. Donohue
Director, Division of Investment Management
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
1177 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY
(By Invitation Only)

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
1:00 p.m.
Brown Bag Lunch: Life after the fellowship, the firm, clerking and managing your career
Nicolas Minella
Court of International Trade
Room 605
(For Fellows and Steering Committee Members Only)
(Fellows are expected to attend)

Thursday, September 11, 2008
5:00 p.m.
Sovereign Wealth Funds
Co-Sponsored By the Dennis J. Block Center of International Business Law and the International Law Society
Edward F. Greene
General Counsel, International Clients Groups Citigroup
Subotnick Conference Center
(Fellows are expected to attend)

Tuesday, September 2, 2008
5:00 p.m.
First Meeting of International Business Law Center
Subotnick Conference Center
(For Fellows and Steering Committee Members Only)
(Fellows are expected to attend)

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