Conference Program
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Registration and Breakfast
8:00 - 9:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:15
- Dean David Levi (Duke Law School)
- Ralf Michaels (Center for International and Comparative Law)
- Haller Jackson (Tulane Law Review)
Part I – Specific Areas of Law
Contract and Tort Law
9:15 - 10:45
Panelists:
- Patrick Borchers, Professor of Law, Vice-President for Academic Affairs,
Creighton University School of Law - Jan von Hein, Professor of Law, Universität Trier
- Dennis Solomon, Professor of Law, Universität Tübingen
- Symeon Symeonides, Professor of Law, Dean, Willamette College of Law
Coffee Break: 10:45 - 11:00
Corporate Law
11:00 - 12:15
Panelists:
- Larry Catá Backer, Professor of Law, Penn State Dickinson School of Law, Visiting Professor of Law, Tulane University Law School
- Jens Dammann, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Texas School of Law
- Onnig Dombalagian, Associate Professor of Law, Tulane University Law School
Lunch Break: 12:15-13:30
Family Law
13:30 – 14:45
Panelists:
- Katharina Boele-Woelki, Professor of Law, Universiteit Utrecht
- Marta Pertegás, Associate Professor International Private Law, Universiteit Antwerpen
- Linda Silberman, Martin Lipton Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Break 14:45 - 15:00
Part II –Methodology
Methods and Approaches
15:00 - 16:30
Panelists:
- Richard Fentiman, Solicitor, Reader in Private International Law, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law
- Ralf Michaels, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
- William A. Reppy Jr., Charles L. B. Lowndes Emeritus Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
Coffee Break: 16:30 - 16:45
Internal and External Conflicts, Federalism and Market Regulation
16:45 - 18:15
Panelists:
- Mathias W. Reimann, Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
- Jürgen Basedow, Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
- Erin O'Hara, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
- Larry Ribstein, Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law, University of Illinois College of Law
