Friday, October 21
9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Subotnick Center
250 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn
Online registration for this event is now closed, if you wish to attend, please contact Alice Loeb at (718) 780-7904
Co-Sponsors
The Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law was established by Brooklyn Law School to provide students with the opportunity to study and shape international business law and policy, drawing upon its faculty’s depth of scholarship, experience, and strong international and business law curriculum. It sponsors outstanding symposia that bring together leading practitioners, government officials, and legal scholars from around the world to discuss topics including securities regulation, trade, banking, and intellectual property law.
For over three decades, the Brooklyn Journal of International Law has demonstrated a commitment to publishing substantive, scholarly articles, making it one of the top-ranked international journals in the nation. Published three times a year, the journal features articles on public and private international law by leading authors from academia, government, and private practice.
About The Symposium
Globalization has led to greater connectivity, interdependence, and economic integration. As a result, this has exposed some plaintiffs and defendants as global participants to different litigation systems. Given the importance of the United States in the process of globalization and the extent to which the U.S. relies on litigation in various contexts, its litigation system is viewed by some as a model—one to be either imitated or avoided. For example, the United States is generally more receptive to litigation as a means of protecting injured investors or as a tool of corporate governance, as in the use of collective actions through class litigation and derivative lawsuits. In addition, entrepreneurial lawyers are an important part of the litigation model.
The symposium brings together scholars to discuss how the U.S. model has or has not influenced the development of other litigation systems. Three sessions will focus on procedural issues, securities litigation and enforcement, and derivative litigation.
Agenda
8:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am Welcoming Remarks
Michael A. Gerber
Interim Dean and Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
Arthur Pinto
Co-Director
Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law
Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
9:30am Derivative Litigation
Arad Reisberg
Reader in Corporate and Financial Law & Vice Dean (Research)
Director, UCL Centre for Commercial Law
Faculty of Laws
University College London
Martin Gelter
Associate Professor of Law
Fordham University School of Law
Dan W. Puchniak
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Commentator
Minor Myers
Assistant Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
10:45am Coffee Break
11:00am Securities Litigation and Enforcement
Eugenio J. Cárdenas
Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD) Candidate
Stanford Law School
Poonam Puri
Associate Dean, Research, Graduate Studies and Institutional Relations
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Manning G. Warren III
H. Edward Harter Chair of Commercial Law
Brandeis School of Law
University of Louisville
Commentators
James Park
Associate Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
Lawrence A. Sucharow ’75
Chairman
Labaton Sucharow LLP
12:30pm Lunch Break
2:00pm Procedural Issues
Linda J. Silberman
Martin Lipton Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
Sergio J. Campos
Associate Professor of Law
University of Miami School of Law
Antonio Gidi
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Houston Law Center
Commentator
Robin Effron
Associate Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School