Home Activities ICCLP - Comparative Law and Politics Symposiums Comparative Law and Politics Symposiums 2013 Academic Year The 45th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium Third Party Investigation Organization for Medical Accidents: How We Should Establish It for Improving Patient Safety Date Saturday, 20 April 2013 Place Room 101, School of Law Bldg. Contents Chairs: Yasuji Kodama, Lawyer/Project Professor, University of Tokyo; Futoshi Iwata, Professor, Sophia University Part 1: Introduction Professor Norio Higuchi; Satoru Honma, Professor, Tsukuba University; Kishiko Hirukawa, Managing Nurse, Tokyo Area Office, Japan Patient Safety Investigation Organization Part 2: Comments Ikuko Toyoda, Safety Manager, Shin-katsushika Hospital; Masanori Tonegawa, Staff Writer, Yomiuri Shimbun; Emi Komiya, Chief Director, NHK Radio; Robert B Leflar, Professor, University of Arkansas; Yoshimasa Nagao, Professor, Nagoya University Co-sponsored with Health and Labour Sciences Research Grants, 'Responsive Regulation on Patient Safety' (Project Leader: Futoshi Iwata) Supported by: Japan Patient Safety Investigation Organization and the Institute of Gerontology, the University of Tokyo 2012 Academic Year The 44th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium Corporate Governance Contributing to Create Value of Company -Role of Independent Director- Date 31 January 2013 Place Yayoi Auditorium Ichijyo Hall, University of Tokyo Contents Opening Remarks: Professor Keiichi Karatsu Speeches Title: Corporate Governance Contributing to Create Value of Company-Role of Independent Director- -Supervisory Board and Corporate Govenance Speaker: Professor Hiroyuki Kansaku Title: TSE's Concerns and Measures under Consideration Speaker: Hiroyuki Matsuzaki, Director of Listing department, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. Title: Proactive Role of Independent Directors to Create Long-term Corporate Value Speaker: Kazuhiro Takei, Attorney-at-Law, NISHIMURA & ASAHI Title: The Role of Outside Directors in Corporate Governance at Hitachi, Ltd. Speaker: Atsushi Doi, General Manager, Legal Division, Hitachi, Ltd. Support East Japan Railway Company SHOJIHOMU Co., Ltd. The 43rd Comparative Law and Politics Symposium Roundtable Discussion on Modern Issues about M&As under Corporate and Securities Laws: A Comparative Perspective Date Friday, 3 August 2012 Place Yayoi Auditorium Ichijyo Hall, University of Tokyo Contents EU Takeover Directive A Recent Case in the U.S. MBOs in Japan <Speakers> Harald Baum, MPI Hamburg, Germany Jacques Buhart, McDermott Will & Emery, Paris, France Paul Davies, Oxford University, UK Jill Fisch, University of Pennsylvania, US Curtis Milhaupt, Columbia University, US Hideki Kanda, University of Tokyo Moderator: Keiichi Karatsu, Professor, the University of Tokyo Support SHOJIHOMU Co., Ltd. 2011 Academic Year The 41st Comparative Law and Politics Symposium International Dimension of Modern Competition Law and Policy Date Thursday, 4 August 2011 Place Yayoi Auditorium Ichijyo Hall, University of Tokyo Contents Jacques Buhart, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery Paris and Brussels "Recent developments in EU competition rules" Andreas Fuchs, Professor, Osnabruck University "The Transatlantic Gap in Price Squeeze Cases: Linkline Communications, Inc. v. Deutsche Telekom, TeliaSonera et al." Harry First, Professor, New York University School of Law "Microsoft and the Globalization of Antitrust" Michael P. A. Cohen, Partner, Paul Hastings Washington D.C. "Global Competition Law: Really? Why?" Kenju Watanabe, Partner, Paul Hastings Tokyo / New York "Premerger Notifications and Takeovers of Public Companies - A Transactional Lawyer's Perspective" Tadashi Shiraishi, Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo "Effects on Domestic Purchasers: A Descriptive Theory for Competition Law on Cross-Border Cases" Q&As Moderator: Keiichi Karatsu, Professor, the University of Tokyo Support SHOJIHOMU Co., Ltd. 2010 Academic Year The 40th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium Seminar on Cross-Border Insolvency Law Date Friday, 11 March 2011 Place Law School Room #101 Contents Presentations The Honorable Bruce A. Markell, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, District of Nevada Junichi Matsushita, Professor of Law, University of Tokyo Comments Jay L. Westbrook, Professor of Law, University of Texas Hideyuki Sakai, Partner, Bingham, McCutchen & Murase /Sakai, Mimura & Aizawa Moderator Charles W. Mooney, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Organized by Global Centers of Excellence Program"Soft Law and the State-Market Relationship" Program on the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law (Tokyo Stock Exchange) Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law and Politics, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo University of Pennsylvania Law School The 37th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium Modern Issues in American Law Date Wednesday, 4 August 2010 Place ANA InterContinental Hotel Tokyo, Banquet Room Contents Joseph L. Hoffmann, Professor, Indiana University "Recent Developments in the American Law of Fraud" Charles W. Mooney Jr., Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School "Insolvency Regimes for Large Non-bank Financial Institutions" Christopher H. Hanna, Professor, Southern Methodist University "The Future of Tax Planning in the United States" Veronica L. Taylor, Professor, Regulatory Institutions Network, ANU College of Asia and the Pasific "Exporting U.S. Rule of Law: Lessons from China" Closing: Hideki Kanda, Professor, the University of Tokyo Introduction: Yoshiaki Miyasako, Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo Moderator: Hideki Kanda, Professor, the University of Tokyo Support Nomura Holdings, Inc. and the Commercial Law Center, Inc. 2009 Academic Year The 34th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium M&As:Major Issues in Modern Corporate Law Date Wednesday, 5 August 2009 Place ANA InterContinental Hotel Tokyo, Banquet Room Contents U.S.-Reinier Kraakman Professor, Harvard Law School "Hostile takeovers and the future of the board-centered model of corporate governance" UK-Paul Davies , Professor, London School of Economics, Department of Law "Sticking with a shareholder-centred approach" Germany-Klaus Hopt, Profssor, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law "Material adverse change (MAC) clauses in financial and takeover law" France-Jacques Buhart, Partner, Herbert Smith LLP, Paris "The new role of the board of directors in hostile takeovers in France and other European countries under the European takeover directive" Coment: Edward B. Rock Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School Coment: Hideki Kanda, Professor, the University of Tokyo Introduction: Hideki Kanda, Professor, the University of Tokyo Moderator: Yoshiaki Miyasako, Professor, University of Tokyo Support Nomura Holdings, Inc. and the Commercial Law Center, Inc. 2008 Academic Year The 32nd Comparative Law and Politics Symposium Recent Issues of American Law Date Tuesday, 5, August 2008 Place ANA InterContinental Hotel Tokyo, Banquet Room Contents ・Tom Ginsburg, Professor, The Law School, University of Chicago "Recent Developments in International Law in the United States " ・Christopher Hanna, Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University "The Intersection of Tax and Financial Accounting" ・Anthony Zaloom, Adjunct professor at the University of California at Berkeley; Director, China Profram, BCLBE, Former of-counsel to the Tokyo law firm of Mori Hamada & Matsumoto "An American Legal Transplant: the New Anti Monopoly Law in China" ・Toshiko Takenaka, Professor, University of Washington School of Law "Roles of General Courts and Specialized Courts in Patent Law Jurisprudence�EšLessons from U.S. Experiences" ・Veronica Taylor, Professor, University of Washington School of Law "Doing Business in Developing Markets: New Tools and Insights from Development Law" Introduction: Hideki Kanda, Professor, the University of Tokyo Moderator: Yoshiaki Miyasako, Professor, University of Tokyo Support Nomura Holdings, Inc. and the Commercial Law Center, Inc. 2007 Academic Year The 30th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium Developing International IP Norms for the 21st Century Date Monday, 30 July 2007 Place ANA InterContinental Hotel Tokyo, Banquet Room Contents Panel discussion I. "Copyright" Moderator: Yuko Kimijima, Associate Professor, Keio University David Vaver, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford "Copyright in the 21st century: a British (and European) Perspective" Diane Zimmerman, Professor, New York University School of Law "Copyright in the 21st century: a US Perspective" Graeme Dinwoodie, Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law "Recent Trends in U.S. Trade Dress Protection for Designs" Panel discussion II. "Patents" Moderator: Toshiko Takenaka, Professor, University of Washington School of Law Rochelle Dreyfuss, Professor, New York University School of Law "Recent US Supreme Court Decisions and Their Impact on IT Related Inventions" Peter Meier-Beck, Judge, German Federal Court of Justice /Professor, Dr., University of Duesseldorf "Patent Quality, in particular nonobviousness, and other current issues in Patent Protection: From a German perspective" Heinz Goddar, German Patent Attorney and European Patent and Trademark Attorney / Professor, Dr., University of Bremen "Patent Quality, in particular nonobviousness, and other current issues in Patent Protection: From an EPO perspective" Introduction: Hideki Kanda, Professor, the University of Tokyo Moderator: Hideaki Kanda, Professor, University of Tokyo Support Nomura Holdings, Inc. and the Commercial Law Center, Inc. Comparative Law and Politics Symposiums before 2007 → ICCLP Annual Report