Centre for Business Law and Practice PGR Conference

The conference offers a supportive environment in which students can receive feedback from staff and students on the ideas and arguments presented.

This is a free conference but registration is required in advance. Following the conference there will be a small supper outside the Moot Court room for everyone who attends the conference.

This conference provides those postgraduate research students attached to the Centre for Business Law and Practice with the opportunity to present papers drawing on their PhD studies.

The conference offers a supportive environment in which students can receive feedback from staff and students on the ideas and arguments presented.

Programme

13:00-13:30    Lunch

13:30-13:40    Welcome from the Centre for Business Law and Practice

13:40-14:10    John Gannon “EU Competition Law in the Age of E-Commerce:
                        An Introductory Assessment of Automated Pricing Algorithms”

14:10-14:40    Ahmad Bin Ismail “An Overview of Shariah Governance”

14:40-15:10    Bingdao Wang “Judgments Recognition between China
                        and Hong Kong in Cross-border Insolvency Matters”

15:10-15:25    Tea and Coffee Break

15:25-15:55    Negar West “An Empirical Study into Directors’ Duties in Iran”

15:55-16:25    Opemiposi Adegbulu “Conflicts of Interest in the Private Sector
                        and the Significance of the Public Interest Test”

16:25-16:55    Christos Hadjiarapis (University of Manchester) “Redefining
                        the Functions of a Trade Mark in the EU: From Plain Packaging
                        to Trade Mark Law”

16:55-17:10    Closing Remarks (Professor Duncan Sheehan)

17:10               Dinner, Drinks and Networking