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Comparative Law and Politics Symposiums
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:Lessons 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
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