National Centre for Business Law - Event Archive
2012
January 6, 2012 - Copthorne Holdings Ltd. and the Future of the GAAR
Flavelle House, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
1:00-6:00 pm
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January 16, 2012 - Fairness In Financial Services
Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel, Port Alberni Room
8:00-9:30 am
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Please register at www.ncblevents.com.
January 17, 2012 - A Roundtable Discussion on the Stigma Associated with Bankruptcy
UBC Faculty of Law at Allard Hall, Room 335
8:00-10:00 am
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To register please contact Anna Lund at annajanelund@gmail.com
January 25 - NCBL Downtown Speaker Series
China's CSR Policies: Implications for Canadian Business
Pitman Potter, Hong Kong Bank Chair, Institute of Asian Research, Professor of Law UBC Faculty of Law
UBC Robson Square, C400 12:30-1:30
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To register visit www.ncblevents.com
February 10, 2012 - 12th Annual Review of Insolvency Law Conference
Fairmont Waterfront Hotel
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February 20 - Annelise Riles, Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law in Far East Legal Studies, and Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University
Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets
Four Seasons Hotel, Seasons Room, 12:30-1:30 pm
For more information click here.
To register visit www.ncblevents.com
March 8 - Fasken Martineau Senior Visiting Scholar Lecture and Reception with John Coffee, Columbia University
The Political Economy of the Dodd-Frank Act: Why Financial Reform Tends to be Frustrated and Systemic Risk Perpetuated
John Coffee, Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Rosewood Hotel Georgia, Bowden Room, 5-7 pm
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To register visit www.ncblevents.com
March 9 - Faculty Colloquium and Reception with the NCBL Fasken Visiting Senior Scholar
Professor John Coffee, Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia University
Credit Rating Agencies: A Gatekeeper Who Failed and Why?
Allard Hall Room 121, 3:00-4:30 pm (Reception in the Terrace Lounge, 4:30-5:30 pm)
RSVP to Burchill@law.ubc.ca
March 26 - Jinyan Li, Osgoode Hall Law School
Developments in China's International Tax System
UBC Robson Square, room C400, 12:30-1:30 pm
To register visit www.ncblevents.com
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March 27 - Jinyan Li, Osgoode Hall Law School
Western Legal Transplants in the Middle Kingdom: An Inquiry about China's Role as a Norm Taker, Norm Shaker and Norm Maker
Faculty Lecture, UBC Faculty of Law at Allard Hall, room 122, 12:30-1:30 pm
RSVP to Burchill@law.ubc.ca
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April 16 - Anthony VanDuzer, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
What are the implications of the expanding role of provincial governments in the negotiation and implementation of Canada trade commitments? Lessons from the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement negotiations
UBC Robson Square, HSBC Hall, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
To register visit www.ncblevents.com
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2011
January 11, 2011
Still Moving Towards a Canadian Securities Transition Office
Bryan Davies, Vice Chair, Canadian Securities Transition Office
Location: UBC Robson Square, HSBC Hall
Time: 8:00 a.m. - Coffee; 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. - Speech
There is no charge for this event. To RSVP, please visit www.ncblevents.com. Registration will open December 23.
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January 19, 2011
Vancouver Speaker Series with Professor Joost Blom, Q.C., UBC Faculty of Law
The British Columbia Law Institute Unfair Contracts Relief Project
Location: UBC Robson Square, Room C400
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm
Cost: $40, including a light lunch.
To RSVP, please visit www.ncblevents.com. Registration will open December 1.
This is event qualifies for 1 CPD credit.
Please note that there is no charge for UBC Law Students, and students interested in attending should RSVP to Michelle Burchill at Burchill@law.ubc.ca. Seating is limited.
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February 4, 2011
8th Annual Review of Insolvency Law
Location: Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto
To RSVP, please visit www.ncblevents.com. Registration will open October 27.
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***Sorry, registration is now closed. We hope to see you next year.***
February 7, 2011
Speaker Series with Kellye Y. Testy, Dean & James W. Mifflin University Professor, University of Washington School of Law
Never Waste a Crisis: Corporate Social Responsibility in a "Down" Economy
Location: Four Seasons Hotel, Garibaldi Room
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Cost: $40, including a light lunch.
To register visit www.ncblevents.com. Registration will open January 7.
This event qualifies for 1 CPD credit.
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February 25, 2011
Vancouver Speaker Series with Reuven Avi-Yonah, Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law and Director, International Tax LL.M. Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
To Be or Not To Be? Citizens United and the Corporate Form
Location: UBC Robson Square, Room C400
Time: 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Cost: $40, including a light lunch.
To RSVP, please visit www.ncblevents.com. Registration will begin January 24.
This is event qualifies for 1 CPD
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March 22/23, 2011
Seminar on Banks, Markets and Regulation
Location: Four Seasons Hotel, Seasons Room
Tues: 5:00-6:00 pm; Wed: 8:00-11:30 am
Tuesday's Keynote Speech - Professor Julia Black, London School of Economics, The Changing Character of Financial Regulation
Cost: $100 for both days, $30 for Tuesday only.
To register visit www.ncblevents.com. Registration will open February 21.
This event qualifies for 1 or 4 CPD credits.
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April 12, 2011
Vancouver Speaker Series with Lynn Stout, Paul Hastings Professor of Corporate and Securities Law, UCLA School of Law
Rethinking Shareholder Primacy in the Wake of the BP Oil Spill Disaster
Location: UBC Robson Square, HSBC Hall
Time: 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Cost: $40, including a light lunch.
To RSVP, please visit www.ncblevents.com. Registration will begin March 14.
This is event qualifies for 1 CPD credit.
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April 14-15, 2011
CSR in the Pacific Rim Conference
Location: CK Choi Building, Conference Room 120
Time: Thursday - 11:30-7:00 pm; Friday - 9:00-7:00 pm
There is no cost to attend this event.
RSVP to Burchill@law.ubc.ca.
Seating is limited and will be given on a first come, first
served basis.
This is event qualifies for CPD credits.
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here...
May 4-5, 2011
Workshop on Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
(CETA)
Co-sponsored by the TETE and the Liu Institute for Global Issues
September 10-11, 2011
A "Socially Responsible Investment And Canadian Extractive Industries" Workshop
This workshop, organized by the UBC Centre for Law and the Environment, in conjunction with the UBC National Centre for Business Law and the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network, will examine the response of social investors to Canadian extractive industries (mining, oil & gas companies) operating in Canada and abroad. It will feature speakers from a range of stakeholders and perspectives, including academics, lawyers, First Nations, NGOs, and industry and investment professionals. The themes of the workshop include: (i) the social and environmental issues, concerns and positives associated with Canadian extractive industries; (ii) the legal and institutional obstacles and opportunities for social investors to influence Canadian extractive industries; (iii) social investors' methods of influence and their effectiveness; (iv) the response of extractive industries; and (v) the impact of relevant codes of conduct, such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
Enquiries regarding participation in this workshop are welcome, and should be directed to the organizer, Professor Benjamin J. Richardson, UBC Faculty of Law, at email richardson@law.ubc.ca or telephone 604-827-4823.
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October 27 - NCBL Downtown Speaker Series
Self-Dealing and Indirect Conflicts
Assaf Hamdani, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Four Seasons Hotel, Seasons Room, 12:30-1:30
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November 4 - NCBL Downtown Speaker Series
Financial Innovation, Leverage, Bubbles, and the Distribution of Income
Margaret Blair, Professor of Law, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise, Vanderbilt University Law School
UBC Robson Square, HSBC Hall, 12:30-1:30
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November 24 - Doreen McBarnet, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford and Visiting Professor, University of Edinburgh
Legal engineering and the financial crisis: bankers, lawyers and responsibility
Faculty Lecture, UBC Faculty of Law at Allard Hall, Room 122, 12:30-1:30 pm.
For more information click here.
November 30 - 5th NCBL Annual General Meeting & Reception
Keynote Speaker: Melanie Aitken, Commissioner of Competition, Competition Bureau of Canada
Comments by François Tougas, Partner, McMillan and Adjunct Professor, UBC Faculty of Law, "Competition Law & Policy"
Four Seasons Hotel, Seasons Room, 5:30-7:30 pm
For information click here
Please register at www.ncblevents.com.
2010
September 14, 2010
4th NCBL Annual General Meeting and Reception
Re-thinking Corporate Governance
Ed Waitzer, Partner, Stikeman Elliott LLP, Toronto and Director, Hennick Centre for Business and Law, Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business, York University
Location: Shangri-La Hotel, Conway Room
Time: 5-6 pm, Reception 6-7 pm
Cost: $60
To RSVP, please visit www.ncblevents.com.
This is event qualifies for 1 CPD credit.
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September 21, 2010
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Senior Visiting Scholar
The Essence of Responsive Regulation
John Braithwaite, Professor, Australian Research Council Federation Fellow at the Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University
Co-hosted by Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Location: Four Seasons Hotel, Seasons Room
Time: 5-6 pm, Reception 6-7 pm
Cost: $60
To RSVP, please visit www.ncblevents.com.
This is event qualifies for 1 CPD credit.
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October 1, 2010
Responsive Regulation in Theory and Practice
John Braithwaite, Professor, Australian Research Council Federation Fellow at the Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University and the Fasken Martineau Senior Visiting Scholar
with
Arthur Stinchcombe, Professor Emeritus, Northwestern Department of Sociology
Liu Institute for Global Issues
6476 NW Marine Drive, UBC
2:30-4:00 pm. A reception will follow.
There is no charge for this event. To RSVP, please visit www.ncblevents.com. Registration will open September 1.
This event qualifies for 1.5 CPD credits.
For more information, click here
October 22, 2010
Vancouver Speaker Series with Michelle Welsh, Deputy Director, Workplace and Corporate Law Research Group, Faculty of Business & Economics, Monash University
Increased Enforcement: Does it Really Lead to Increased Compliance?
Location: Four Seasons Hotel, Garibaldi Room
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm
Cost: $40, including a light lunch.
To RSVP, please visit www.ncblevents.com. Registration will open September 30.
This is event qualifies for 1 CPD credit.
For more information click here…
Please note that there is no charge for UBC Law Students. Please RSVP to Michelle Burchill at Burchill@law.ubc.ca if you are interested in attending. Seating is limited.
November 17, 2010
Vancouver Speaker Series with Michael Siebecker, Associate Professor of Law, College of Law, University of Florida
A New Discourse Theory of the Firm After Citizens United
Location: UBC Robson Square, HSBC Hall
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm
Cost: $40, including a light lunch.
To RSVP, please visit www.ncblevents.com. Registration will open October 18.
This is event qualifies for 1 CPD credit.
Please note that there is no charge for UBC Law Students. Please RSVP to Michelle Burchill at Burchill@law.ubc.ca if you are interested in attending. Seating is limited.
For more information click here
2009 - 2010
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Vancouver Speaker's Series with Dr. Janis Sarra, UBC Faculty of Law
Tranched, Squared and Derived, Credit Derivative Regulatory Reform and the Restructuring of Insolvent Businesses
Location: Robson Square, HSBC Hall
Time: 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Cost is $35 including a light lunch.
To register please visit www.ncblevents.com
For more information contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca or click here.
3rd NCBL Annual General Meeting and Reception
The Path to a Canadian Securities Regulator
November 5, 2009
Keynote Speaker: Doug Hyndman, Canadian Securities Transition Office
Commentators: Ron Davis, UBC Faculty of Law; Cristie Ford, UBC Faculty of Law; Janis Sarra, UBC Faculty of Law; Eric Pan, Associate Professor of Law and Director, The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York
Four Seasons Hotel, 5:00 - 7:30 pm
Cost is $60
To register please visit www.ncblevents.com
For more information contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca or click here.
Vancouver Speaker's Series with Robert Ahdieh, Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Centre, Professor of Law and Director, Center on Federalism & Intersystemic Governance, Emory Law School
Four Seasons Hotel, Seasons Room,
December 8, 2009
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Cost is $35.
To register please visit www.ncblevents.com.
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Vancouver Speaker's Series with Lawson Hunter, Stikeman Elliott LLP, Ottawa
January 15, 2010
Breaking The Mold Of Incrementalism - Campaigning for Fundamental Change in Telecom Policy
Robson Square, HSBC Hall, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Cost is $40
To register visit www.ncblevents.com.
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Toward a Harmonized Sales Tax
Co-hosted with Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP and the Centre for Public Policy Research, SFU
January 21, 2010, 8:00 - 12:00 pm
Four Seasons Hotel, Ballroom
Cost is $100
To register visit www.ncblevents.com.
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Vancouver Speaker's Series with Jonathan Sokobin, Deputy Director and Managing Executive, Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation, US Securities & Exchange Commission
Risk Management and Securities Market Regulation
February 3, 2010
Four Seasons Hotel, Seasons Room, 8:00 - 9:15 am
Cost is $40
To register visit www.ncblevents.com.
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7th Annual Review of Insolvency Law
February 4-5, 2010
Kelowna, BC
To register please visit www.ncblevents.com
For more information click here.
Risk Allocation and Misplaced Emotion: the U.S. Subprime Crisis
Professor Shannon O’Byrne, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta
Thursday, March 11, 2010
UBC Robson Square, Room C100, 11:30 – 12:30 pm
Cost to attend this talk is $15 which includes coffee.
To register contact burchill@law.ubc.ca.
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Vancouver Speaker's Series with Kim Krawiec, University of North Carolina School of Law
March 12, 2010
Narratives of Diversity in the Corporate Boardroom: What Corporate Insiders Say About Why Diversity Matters
UBC Robson Square, HSBC Hall, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Cost is $40
To register contact burchill@law.ubc.ca.
For more information click here
Vancouver Speaker's Series with Frank Partnoy, University of San Diego School of Law
April 1, 2010
***Our apologies, but this event has been cancelled***
TMX Group Annual Lecture
The Harmonization of Canadian and US Securities Regulation
Speakers: Janis Sarra, UBC Faculty of Law and Howell Jackson, Harvard Law School
April 8, 2010
Four Seasons Hotel, Pavillon Room, 12:30- 1:30 pm
Cost is $40 and includes a light lunch.
To register visit www.ncblevents.com before Tuesday, April 6, 2010.
For more information click here
2009
Thursday, January 22nd
Reforming Canada’s International Tax Rules for a New Global Era more...
Co-hosted by the NCBL and KPMG
Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Georgia Rooms A&B
8:00 – 12:00 pm
Cost is $50 including a light breakfast.
To register please visit www.ncblevents.com
For more information contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca or click here.
Monday, February 2
Christian Johnson, Professor, University of Utah School of Law
The Obama Response to the Global Financial Crisis more...
Calgary Courts Centre, Boardroom, South Tower, 20th Floor, 601 – 5 Street SW, Calgary
Generously sponsored by Macleod Dixon LLP, Calgary
For more information click here.
Thursday, February 5
Naizam Kanji, Senior Legal Counsel, Take-over Bids, Mergers & Acquisitions, OSC
A Reappraisal of the Regulatory Framework for Reviewing Target Board Responses to Unsolicited Bids
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Robson Square, HSBC Hall
Cost is $35 including a light lunch. To register visit www.ncblevents.com.
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Friday, February 6
The Future of Canadian Securities Regulation? The Expert Panel Report
8:00 am – 3:15 pm Presentations
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm Reception
Four Seasons Hotel, Vancouver
Cost is $285 + GST. To register visit www.ncblevents.com.
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Monday, February 9
Lipson Case Seminar
8:30 am – 10:30 am
Four Seasons Hotel, Vancouver
Cost is $50 + GST. To register visit www.ncblevents.com.
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Friday, February 13, 2009
6th Annual Review of Insolvency Law Conference
Banff Springs Hotel
more...
Monday, March 9
Stephanie Ben-Ishai, Associate Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
The 2008 Bankruptcy Reforms and the Global Financial Crisis
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Robson Square, HSBC Hall
Cost is $35 including a light lunch. To register contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
Thursday, March 19
Douglas Cumming, Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship and the Ontario Research Chair, Schulich School of Business, York University
Exchange Regulation and Trading
Calgary Courts Centre, Boardroom, South Tower, 20th Floor, 601 – 5 Street SW, Calgary
Generously sponsored by Macleod Dixon LLP, Calgary
Cost is $35 including a light lunch.
To register please visit www.ncblevents.com
For more information contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca or click here.
Monday, April 6
Ed Iacobucci, Osler Chair in Business Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Does Opting out of Mandatory Corporate Law Add Value? Income Trust Governance Choices and Value
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Robson Square, HSBC Hall
Cost is $35 including a light lunch. To register contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
Friday, April 17
Claire Hill, Professor, University of Minnesota Law School
The Optimal Penumbra of Delaware Corporate Law, Claire A. Hill & Brett McDonnell
Calgary Courts Centre, Boardroom, North Tower, 21st Floor, 601 – 5 Street SW, Calgary
Generously sponsored by Macleod Dixon LLP, Calgary
Cost is $35 including a light lunch.
To register please visit www.ncblevents.com.
Monday, April 20
Mitu Gulati, Professor, Duke Law
Sticky Contracts (or Why Don't Law Firms Have R&D Departments?) (co-authored with Robert Scott)
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Robson Square, Room C400
Cost is $35 including a light lunch.
To register please visit www.ncblevents.com.
Friday, May 1
Paul Paton, Associate Professor, Director, Ethics Across the Professions Initiative,
McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific
Ethics for Lawyers in Corporate Contexts: New Challenges
Calgary Courts Centre, Boardroom, North Tower, 21st Floor, 601 – 5 Street SW, Calgary
Generously sponsored by Macleod Dixon LLP, Calgary
Cost is $35 including a light lunch.
To register please visit www.ncblevents.com.
May 26-27, 2009
New Governance and the Business Organization Workshop
Location: Koerner Library, BC Gas Conference Room, Room 742.
Time: 9:00am – 5:30pm (Tuesday); 9:00am – 12:30pm (Wednesday)
Description: From May 26th to 27th, the Faculty of Law will host a workshop exploring the relationship between New Governance theory and the practical manner in which business organizations are regulated. New Governance is an emerging scholarly approach that endeavours to advance our understanding of prescriptive approaches to the regulation of business organizations. It represents a fundamental challenge to classical command-and-control regulation, where government’s primary role is to set definite rules and then punish noncompliance. The key insight of New Governance scholarship is that pragmatic, problem-based experimentation at the local, business-specific, level can be enhanced through centralized outcome analysis to forge a participatory, flexible, “best practices”-driven process of continual improvement and ongoing learning. For information contact Professor Cristie Ford, at ford@law.ubc.ca.
2008
Working Paper Series:
Leading scholars in the area of international tax have submitted papers that were discussed at the Tracking Our Fiscal Footprint: Assessing the Impact of Conventional International Tax Standards on Low-Income Countries workshop in Montréal on October 27, 2008. This event was jointly hosted by McGill University, Faculty of Law and the University of Wisconsin Law School. The aim overall of the workshop was to explore not only how and when high-income country international tax choices influence tax outcomes for low-income states, but also to consider whether those outcomes are sensible or defensible from a normative perspective, and whether and how it is incumbent on high-income states to “do better” in their international tax system design.
- Brauner, Yariv, A Framework for an Informed Study of the Realistic Role of Tax in a Development Agenda (2008) (PDF)
- Christians, Allison, Global Trends and Constraints on Tax Policy in the Least Developed Countries, (2008) (PDF)
- Cockfield, Arthur J., Protecting Taxpayer Privacy Rights under Enhanced Cross-border Tax Information Exchange: Toward a Multilateral Taxpayer Bill of Rights (2008) (PDF)
- Dagan, Tsilly, Just Harmonization (2008) (PDF)
- Lahey, Kathleen A., International Transactions, Taxation, and Women: CEDAW, Sex Equality, and Gender Analysis (2008) (PDF)
January 14
Another Way to Develop Shareholder Remedies: A Comparison between Canada & Japan
Yoshishira Yamada, Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University School of Law, Japan
Time: 12:30pm -1:30 pm
Cost: $35
Location: Robson Square, HSBC room
To register for the speakers’ series, please email businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
January 25
US Securities Law Policy Roundtable more...
Time: 7:45 – 12:00 pm
Cost: $150
Location: Four Seasons Hotel, Aspen Room, 791 Georgia Street
A light breakfast will be served. To register contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca .
January 28
Principal Protected Notes: A Case Study in the Regulation of Financial Innovation
Christopher Nicholls, Chair in Business Law, University of Western Ontario
Time: 12:30pm -1:30 pm
Cost: $35
Location: Robson Square, HSBC room
To register for the speakers’ series, please email businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
February 21
International Colloquium on Social Claims In Insolvency
Chair: Chief Justice Donald Brenner, British Columbia Supreme Court, Canada
Keynote speaker: James Sprayregen, Goldman Sach, New York
National Centre for Business Law, George F. Curtis Building, University of British Columbia 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm, $150.
Registration Form
February 22
5th Annual Review of Insolvency Law Conference
Opening Reception on February 21st at the Vancouver Club
Keynote Speaker: Kenneth M. Bagshaw, Q.C., Chief Legal Officer, VANOC
The Solvency of the 2010 Olympics: Sustainability for the Games and Beyond
Introduction: Brian Pawluck, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Vancouver, Conference Co-Chair
Location: UBC Faculty of Law, 1822 East Mall
For any additional information, please contact Dr. Janis Sarra at sarra@law.ubc.ca or Michelle Burchill at businesslaw@law.ubc.ca or call Michelle at 604 822 5018.
Registration Form
February 25
An Empirical Examination of the Governance Choices of Income Trusts
Ed Iacobucci, Osler Chair in Business Law, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Time: 12:30pm -1:30 pm
Cost: $35
Location: Four Seasons Hotel
To register for the speakers’ series, please email businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
March 1
A Conference on the Olympic Games and Sustainability
The speakers list for this conference includes the leaders of the sustainability teams of the 2010 Olympics Organizing Committee (VANOC), 2010Legacies Now, sponsors and leading sustainability commentators. The conference serves as an important benchmark to analyze the goals and progress to date in the efforts of the 2010 Olympic organizers and supporters to raise the bar of sustainability in this important mega event in Vancouver.
Presented by the National Centre for Business Law
Time: 8:00 – 4:15 pm
Location: George F. Curtis Building, Room 101-102
Cost: $150 (no charge for students and UBC faculty)
Contact: businesslaw@law.ubc.ca or 604.827.3600
March 3
Securities Transfer Act & the Implications for British Columbia
Mohamed Khimji, Assistant Professor, Dalhousie Law School, Halifax
Time: 12:30pm -1:30 pm
Cost: $35
Location: Four Seasons Hotel
To register for the speakers’ series, please email businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
March 17
Our Two Systems of Take-Over Bid Regulation & the Hollowing Out of Corporate Canada
Stéphane Rousseau, Chair in Business and Commercial Law, Faculté de droit,
Université de Montréal
Time: 12:30pm -1:30 pm
Cost: $35
Location: Robson Square, Room C150
To register for the speakers’ series, please email businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
March 31
Global Banks as Global Sustainability Regulators: the Equator Principles
Cynthia Williams, Osler Chair in Business Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto
Time: 12:30pm -1:30 pm
Cost: $35
Location: Robson Square, HSBC room
To register for the speakers’ series, please email businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
June 5
Wind Energy Symposium more...
Presented by the National Centre for Business Law and Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP
Join senior industry leaders, regulators and legal scholars for a roundtable discussion of key
issues facing the wind energy sector in Canada.
Time: 10:00 – 3:00 pm
Location: Four Seasons Hotel, Pavillon I and II
Cost is $90. Lunch will be provided.
Please contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca to register or fax a copy of the attached registration form to 604.822.8108, Attention Michelle Burchill
September 12
NCBL Business Law Speakers Series: “Securities Regulation is a ‘Deretailized’ Marketplace” more...
Speaker: Don Langevoort, Co-Director, Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law,
Georgetown Law
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: UBC Robson Square
Cost: $35 including lunch.
Contact: To register for one or more of these events please contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
September 22
TMX Group Annual Lecture
Institutional Reform and Novel Remedies in North American Securities Law Enforcement
Speakers: Professor Cristie Ford, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia and Professor David Hess, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Location: Four Seasons Hotel, Vancouver, Garibaldi Room
Time: 12:30 pm -1:30 pm
Cost: $40 with lunch
To register contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca
September 25th
Financial Innovation, Regulation, and the Credit Market TurmoilProfessor Christopher Nicholls, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Calgary Courts Centre
Contact: To register for one or more of these events please contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
September 30th
Examining the Behaviour of Independent Boards
Professor Anita Anand, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Sponsored by Bennett Jones LLP, Calgary
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Calgary Courts Centre
Cost is $35 including lunch
Contact: To register for one or more of these events please contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
October 6
NCBL Business Law Speakers Series: “An Explanation and Evaluation of Corporate Governance Reforms in the United States During the First Years of the 21st Century”
Speaker: Harvey Goldschmid, former Commissioner and General Counsel at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: UBC Robson Square
Cost: $35 including lunch.
Contact: To register for one or more of these events please contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
October 16
NCBL Business Law Speakers Series: “The Tax Implications of the Free Movement of Capital Rules in the EU for Canadian Investors and for EU Investors in Canada”
Speaker: Professor Martha O’Brien, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: UBC Robson Square
Cost: $35 including lunch.
Contact: To register for one or more of these events please contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
October 17th
Developments in Canadian Competition Law
Ralph A. Winter, Canada Research Chair in Business Economics and Public Policy, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Calgary Courts Centre
Cost is $35 including lunch
Contact: To register for one or more of these events please contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
Thursday, October 23
2nd Annual NCBL Meeting and Reception
Generously hosted by Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Chair: The Honourable Frank Iacobucci, Q. C., LLD, Counsel, Torys LLP, Toronto
Keynote Speaker: Thomas d’Aquino, Chief Executive and President, Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Maximizing Canadian Competitiveness in a Transforming Global Economy: A CEO Perspective
Provincial Enforcement of Securities Regulation: Data and Debates
Professor Mary Condon, Osgoode Hall Law School and Douglas Hyndman, Chair, British Columbia Securities Commission
Commentator: Mark Skwarok, Partner, Lang Michener LLP
International Tax Policy: A New Era
Kimberley Brooks, H. Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation, McGill University, Faculty of Law and Professor David Duff, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law
Sustainability Issues from a Business Perspective
Commentator: Selina Lee-Andersen, Environmental and Energy Groups, Blakes LLP
Professor Shi-Ling Hsu, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia and Professor Stephanie Bertels, Simon Fraser University, School of Business
Commentator: Michael Taylor, Counsel, Tax Law Services, Department of Justice
Robson Square, HSBC Room
1:30 – 6:30 pm
Cost is $50
To register please contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
Monday, October 27
Tax Symposium at McGill University
Tracking Our Fiscal Footprint: Assessing the Impact of Conventional International Tax Standards on Low-Income Countries
Jointly hosted by McGill University, Faculty of Law and the University of Wisconsin Law School
Panellists include: Art Cockfield, Queen's University Faculty of Law, Canada; Yariv Brauner, University of Florida Levin College of Law, USA; Allison Christians, University of Wisconsin Law School, USA; Tsilly Dagan, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, Israel; Nancy Kaufman, Saint Louis University Faculty of Law, USA; Kathy Lahey, Queen's Faculty of Law, Canada; and Yoram Margalioth, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, Israel, The Celtic Tiger and the Chinese Long
The National Centre for Business Law expects to publish selected papers from the workshop as part of its Working Paper Series. In addition, the U.B.C. Law Review will publish several papers from the symposium in volume 42:2 (forthcoming Summer 2009).
November 7
The Conundrum of Parallel Litigation in Different Forums: Lloyd’s Underwriters v. Cominco Ltd.
Professor Joost Blom, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia
Sponsored by Macleod Dixon LLP, Calgary
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Calgary Courts Centre
Cost is $35 including lunch
Contact: To register for one or more of these events please contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
November 17
NCBL Business Law Speakers Series: “Moving to Principles-Based Regulation - Canada’s Registration System Reforms”
Speaker: Sandy Jakab, Director, Capital Markets Regulation, British Columbia Securities Commission
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: UBC Robson Square
Cost: $35 including lunch.
Contact: To register for one or more of these events please contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
Friday, November 21
Takeovers and Directors' Duties in Canada
Professor Poonum Puri, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Calgary Courts Centre
Cost is $35 including lunch
To register for one or more of these events please contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca
November 28th
Developments in the Law of Fraudulent Conveyances and Preferences: the Recent BIA Amendments and Reform of Provincial Law
Professor Tamara Buckwold, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Calgary Courts Centre
Cost is $35 including lunch
Contact: To register for one or more of these events please contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
NCBL Fall 2008 Event Schedule
NCBL Fall 2008 Calgary Event Schedule
2007
September 17
Business Law Speakers Series - Public Private Partnerships – Trends and Challenges
Speakers: Carol D. Pennycook, Davies Ward Phillips and Vineberg LLP, Toronto more...
Time: 12:30pm -1:30 pm
Cost: $35
Location: Robson Square, HSBC room
To register for the speakers’ series, please email businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
September 24
The TSX Group Annual Lecture - The Future of Securities Class Actions in Canada
Chair: Mr. John McCoach, Vice President, TSX Group, Vancouver
Speakers: Professor of Law Adam Pritchard, University of Michigan, Dr. Janis Sarra, UBC, Director - National Centre for Business Law
Time: 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Cost: $40
Location: Four Seasons Hotel, Arbutus Room
To register please email businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
October 1
Business Law Speakers Series - Innovative Contracting
Speaker: Eli Goldston Professor of Law George Triantis, Harvard Law School
Time: 12:30pm -1:30 pm
Cost: $35
Location: Robson Square, HSBC room
To register for the speakers’ series, please email businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
October 18
National Centre for Business Law First Annual Meeting and Reception
Chair: The Honourable Frank Iacobucci, former Justice, Supreme Court of Canada
Keynote Speaker: Mr. Kevan Cowan, President, TSX Venture Exchange, Calgary, Free Trade In Securities
Speaker: Dr. Janis Sarra, Director, National Centre for Business Law – Brief report on the Centre’s activities
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Cost: no charge
Location: UBC Robson Square, HSBC Hall
To register for this event please contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca
October 22
Commercial Contracting Symposium
Chair: Madame Justice Risa Levine, British Columbia Court of Appeal
Panelists: Professor Shannon O’Byrne, University of Alberta Faculty of Law, Good Faith in Commercial Contracting
Professor Chi Carmody, University of Western Ontario, Director, Canada-US Law Institute, The Harmonization of International Commercial Contracting: Some Canadian Considerations
Professor Ljiljana Biukovic, University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, “Good Faith” in ECJ and WTO Jurisprudence
Time: 1:30 – 4:00 pm
Cost: $40
Location: UBC Robson Square, HSBC Hall
To register for this event please contact businesslaw@law.ubc.ca
October 26
Business Law Speakers Series - Director and Officer Liability in the Zone of Insolvency, A Comparative Analysis
Speaker: Emeritus Professor Harry Rajak, Sussex Law School (Visiting International Scholar to the National Centre for Business Law)
Time: 12:30pm -1:30 pm
Cost: $35
Location: Robson Square, Room C130
To register for the speakers’ series, please email businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
November 1
Business Law Speakers Series - Risk Regulation and its Role in Securities Markets
Speaker: Professor Mary Condon, Osgoode Law School, Toronto
Time: 12:30pm -1:30 pm
Cost: $35
Location: Robson Square, HSBC room
To register for the speakers’ series, please email businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
November 13 – 16
Securities Offerings in the Global Marketplace: Europe, United States and Asia
Featured Speakers: Mark L. Wiltshire, E. Mark Walsh, Eric S. Haueter, Christopher Hilbert, Paul C. Adams and Joseph McLaughlin of Sidley Austin LLP, New York, London, San Francisco and formerly Hong Kong and Beijing offices
Time and Location:
November 13 – Montreal, Hilton Montréal Bonaventure, 12:00 – 3:00 pm
November 14 – Toronto, Le Royal Meridien King Edward, 8:00 – 11:00 am
November 15 – Vancouver, Robson Square, 12:00 – 3:00 pm
November 16 – Calgary, Metropolitan Centre, 8:00 – 11:00 am
November 19
Business Law Speakers Series - Sarbanes-Oxley Now
Speaker: Ms. Trish Zuccotti, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller, Expedia, Inc., Seattle
Time: 12:30pm -1:30 pm
Cost: $35
Location: Robson Square, HSBC room
To register for the speakers’ series, please email businesslaw@law.ubc.ca
December 10
Business Law Speakers Series - The Use of Commercial and Insolvency Law as a Tool for Development
Speaker: Mr. Mahesh Uttamchandani, Senior Counsel and Head of Global Insolvency and Creditor Rights Initiative, World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Time: 12:30pm -1:30 pm
Cost: $35
Location: Robson Square, HSBC room
To register for the speakers’ series, please email businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
For more information on the National Centre for Business Law, email us at businesslaw@law.ubc.ca.
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