Library News Book displays at the Institute

The materials currently on display in the entrance to the immediate and obvious difference between the two volumes is Institute cover two very different subject areas. One display that of the titles. The earlier one, written while the People's contains items on the customs of 18th-century France. The two Revolutionary Government was still in power and before the items covering Parisian customs from 1762 came from the intervention of the US, has the Socialist emphasis on the People's library of Charles Huberich and were bequeathed to the Laws. In contrast the later one, written while the Governor- University of London in 1945. The third volume, on the General and temporary advisory council ran the country during customs of Normandy from 1779, was purchased from funds the occupation by US forces, emphasises the country rather provided by benefaction from the Nuffield Foundation. The than the people, being entitled Grenada Laws. Each proclamation customs which are detailed mainly concern feudal land in the 1983 volume begins 'proclamation by the People's relationships in various regions of France. This article, however, Revolutionary Government', while the later volume declares An concentrates on the items in the second display case on the laws ordinance ... enacted by the Governor-General with the advice of Grenada produced during a turbulent period of its history in and consent of the Advisory Council of Grenada'. Each the 1980s. proclamation in the 1984 volume is headed with the royal crest of an armadillo and a bird with the words 'Ever conscious of Grenada: a brief history God we aspire, build and advance'. The 1994 Laws of Grenada volume was printed in by Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd. Discovered by Columbus in 1498 and named Concepcion, In this the crest of Grenada precedes each act and the text Grenada was originally colonised by France and ceded to Great differs from the two earlier volumes in stating 'Be it enacted by Britain by the Treaty of Versailles in 1783. It became an the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and Associated State in 1967 and an independent nation within the consent of the Senate and House of Representatives of Commonwealth on 7 February 1974. The government was Grenada'. overthrown in 1979 by the New Jewel Movement and a People's Revolutionary Government was set up. Disagreements within the PRG led to the establishment of a Revolutionary Military Council replace the government of Maurice Bishop following his death in October 1983. This prompted the intervention of Caribbean and US forces. The Governor-General installed an advisory council to act as interim The areas covered by the various laws enacted in all three government until the general election in December 1984. A volumes range from taxes, including stamp duty, to motor phased withdrawal of US forces was completed by June 1985. vehicles and petroleum, money lending and industry (Source: Whitakers 2000) ordinances. The laws of 1983 include the Christian Science Society of St George's Grenada Incorporation Law and the Carnival law which allows carnival to be celebrated between the hours of Sam on 15 August and midnight on 16 August. Others deal with amendments to the Education Act and the Terrorism Act. The 1984 volume contains amendments to various laws such as the Banana Ordinance, and those dealing with the cocoa and nutmeg industry. The subject areas covered in the 1994 volume include the Criminal Code, drug abuse and road traffic.

There has been much literature covering the legal aspects of the military intervention, some of which examines the principles of international law; for example Grenada: a study in The display politics and the limits of international law by Scott Davidson The aim was to display some legal materials produced in a (Avebury, 1987), The conquest of Grenada: sovereignty in the periphery country at different stages during a time of political upheaval. It by M Shahabuddeen (University of Guyana, 1986) and The is interesting to compare the format of the laws and the subject Grenada Papers, edited by Paul Seabury and Walter A McDougall areas covered at the different times to assess the impact which a (Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1984). Secondary sources change of government had on the laws at the time. are not included in the display but are available in the library. The volumes in the cabinet are The People's Laws 1983, Grenada Laws 1984 and The Laws of Grenada 1994. All can be found in the Institute library at GN10.E. Both the 1983 and 1984 volumes were printed at the government printing office in St Georges Gillian Sands and cost $30. Both items were obtained by the library under the Book Acquisitions, IALS library terms of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office trust deed. An 14

Amicus Curiae Issue 27 May 2000 COMPARATIVE LAW IN THE 21ST CENTURY Wednesday, 5 July 2000 , Comparative Public Law Tuesday 4 July - Thursday 6 July 2000 9.30am Academic Directors Professor John Bell, Andrew Harding, Department of Law, School of Professor /5 public law different from private law in its evolution and culture? Oriental and African Studies Professor Esin Oriicu, School of Law, University of Glasgow 10.00am Professor Jeffrey Jowell, University College London The evolution of public law in South Africa

10.30am Dr Robert Thomas, University of Manchester Continental principles in English administrative law Registration and Coffee 10.00am O 10.30am Introduction 11.00am Coffee Professor Barry Rider, Director, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 11.30am University of North London Professor Andrew Harding, Department of Law, School of Peter Leyland, Oriental and African Studies Privatisation and public law/private law

11.00am 12noon Lord Goff of Chieveley Professor Andrew Harding, School of Oriental and African Studies Comparative public law: a South East Asian perspective Transmigrations and Transferability of Legal Ideas and Institutions 12.30pm Chair: Professor Esin Orucii, University of Glasgow John Hatchard, General Secretary, Commonwealth Legal Education Association 11.45am Comparing constitutions in Southern Africa Professor Jan Smits, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands Worrying about the' integrity of private legal systems: legal transplants Comparative Law and the 'Religious System of Law' and 'ius commune' 2.00pm Professor Calum Carmichael, Faculty of Comparative 12.15pm Literature, Cornell University, USA Catherine Dupre, University of Birmingham Christianity as a religious legal system The logic of importing law: the Hungarian experience 2.20pm 12.45pm Lunch Professor Bernard Jackson, Centre for Jewish Studies, 2.00pm University of Manchester University of Aberdeen Professor David Carey-Miller, Judaism as a religious legal system South Africa: a world in one country on the long road to reality 2.40pm 2.30pm Dr Werner Menski, School of Oriental and African Studies Coralie Rafrenne, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Hinduism as a religious legal system Lessons to be drawn from the failed transmigration of the trust into French law 3.00pm Andrew Huxley, School of Oriental and African Studies 3.00pm Buddhism as a religious legal system Nick Foster, School of Oriental and African Studies Transmigration and transferability of commercial law in a globalised 3.20pm Tea world 4pm 3.30pm Tea Dr Joshua Getzler, St Hugh's College, Oxford a religious legal system 4.00pm Roman Law as Peter De Cruz, University of Staffordshire 4.20pm in comparative family law Legal transplants: principles and pragmatism Dr Lynn Welchman, School of Oriental and African Studies 6pm Reception Islam as a religious legal system

Amicus Curiae Issue 27 May 2000 4.40pm 12 noon Professor Randall Peerenboom, UCLA Law School, USA Dr Efstathios Banakas, University of East Anglia Chinese Law as a religious legal system The contribution of comparative law to the harmonisation oj European private law 5.00pm Professor Silvio Ferrari, University of Milan, Italy 12.30pm Canon Law as a religious legal system Angus Macdonald, University of Staffordshire A constitution jor Europe? 6pm Reception 1 pm Lunch

Thursday, 6 July 2000 Closing Session Comparative Law: The European Dimension 2pm 9.30am Professor Roger Cotterrell, Queen Mary and Westfield Professor Walter Van Gerven, University of Leuven, Belgium College The use of comparative law as a tooljbr developing the European Union Comparative law, state and communities: some reflections on socio-legal 10.00am change Professor Janet Dine and Dr Frederique Dahan, 2.30pm University of Lssex Professor David Nelken, Cardiff Law School, University of The benefits and limits of comparative law in the drafting legislative Wales process of transition economies Methaphors oj legal adaptation 10.30am 3pm Dr Melanie Lathani, Manchester Metropolitan University Professor Esin Orucii, University of Glasgow European bio-ethical legislation: is consensus possible? 'Unde venit, quo tendit' comparative law? 11.00am Coffee 3.30pm Tea 11.30am 4pm Dr Wendy Kennett, University of Keele General discussion » Enforcement of civil judgements and regulation of enforcement agents 5.30pm Close

13-14 July 2000

A two-day conference on 'The Role of Regulation in Global of the Securities and Investments Board and Financial Services Financial Markets' has been organised by the Anglo-Japanese Authority Centre for Financial Regulation at City University Business Welcome addresses School and the International Financial Regulation Unit at Sir Paul NewaU, Pro-Chancellor, City University, London; the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, in association with Senior Adviser, Lehman Brothers; former Lord Mayor oj London International Journal of Banking Regulation, European Financial Professor David Rhind, Vice-Chancellor, City University, Law Review, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, London International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal, the British Keynote Address Institute of Securities Laws and the Society for Advanced Legal The Rt Hon Clare Short PC, MP, Secretary oj State Studies. Jor International Development The conference will be held at the Barbican Centre, Silk Response Street, London EC2. Professor Eisuke Sakakibara, Professor and Director, GSEC, Keio University; former Vice-Minister of Finance, Japan PROGRAMME 11.00 Coffee Thursday, 13 July 2000 11.30 Session One 08.30 Registration and coffee Globalisation of Financial Markets 09.15 Introduction Chairman: Mr William Blair, 3 Verulam Buildings, Dr Chizu Nakajima, Director, Anglo-Japanese Centre Jor London Financial Regulation, City University Business School Professor Leslie Hannah, Dean, City University Business Professor Barry Rider, Director, Institute of Advanced School; founder and director, London Economics Legal Studies, University of London; Fellow, Jesus College, Mr Jonathan Winer, Alston and Bird LIP; former US Cambridge; President, British Institute of Securities Laws Assistant Secretary of State Dr Oonagh McDonald CBE, Director, FSA Ombudsman The Viscount Trenchard, Director, Flemings; former Scheme; former Member of Parliament and Opposition Front member, Joint Committee of Parliament on Financial Services and 16 Bench Spokeswoman on Financial Services; former member, Board Markets

Amicus Curiae Issue 27 May 2000 12.45 Buffet lunch Professor'Gordon Gemmill, Professor of Finance, City University Business School 14.15 Session Two Technology and the Financial Markets 11.00 Coffee Chairman: Sir Kenneth Warren, Jormer Chairman, House 11.30 Panel Discussion of Commons Select Committee on Trade ^Industry; Chairman, Chairman: Professor Allan Williams, Deputy Dean, City Computer Security Research Centre, London School of Economics University Business School ^Political Science Ms Patricia Jackson, Head, Regulatory Policy, Bank of Mr Tomas Carruthers, Chief Executive, Interactive Investor England Ltd Mr Toby Graham, Partner, Taylor Joynson Garrett Mr Derek Tullett CBE, Director, Tullet S^Tokyo Liberty pic; Mr Mark Tantam, National Partner, Fraud Management member, Committee on Wholesale Market Brokers Association; Services, Deloitte Touche Chairman, City Action 12.30 Buffet lunch 15.00 Tea 14.00 Session Five 15.30 Session Three Risks to the Financial Markets The Role of Regulation in a Global Context Chairman: Mrs Rosalind Wright, Director, The Serious Chairman: Professor Barry Rider Fraud Office for England and Wales

The Rt Hon David Heathcoat-Amory PC, MP, Mr Robert Rhodes QC, 4 Kings Bench Walk, London Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury; member, Joint Committee Professor Jonathan Macey of Parliament on Financial Services and Markets Professor Elias Dinenis, Head, Department of Mr Alastair Clark, Executive Directorfor Financial Stability, Investment, Risk Management ^Insurance and Director, Centre Bank of England for Mathematical Trading &^Finance, City University Business 16.30 Panel Discussion School Chairman: Professor Jonathan Charkham, Visiting Mr Andrew Edwards CB, Director, EPFM Consulting; Professor, City University Business School; former Sheriff, City of formerly, HM Treasury; author, The Edwards Report — on the London; former Chief Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of financial regulation in the Crown Dependencies England 15.30 Tea Professor Jonathan Macey,y DuPratt White Professor of 16.00 Panel Discussion Law, Cornell University, USA Professor Shelagh Helfernan, Professor of Banking and Chairman: Mr David Bickford CB,Jormer Chief Legal Finance, City University Business School Advisor, British Security Service and Secret Intelligence Service Dr Bruce Butcher, General Counsel, Australian Securities Speakers in Session Five to be joined by and Investments Commission Dr James Backhouse, Director, Computer Security Research Mr Seiji Kihara, Ministry of Finance, Japan; seconded to Centre; Reader, London School of Economics ^Political Science HM Treasury, UK Mr Jason Haines, Research Fellow in International Professor Gerry Dickinson, Director, Centre for Insurance Financial Regulation, IALS and Investment, City University Business School Professor Johan Henning, Director, Centre for Corporate 17.30 Close Law ^Practice, IALS; Dean, Faculty of Law, University of the 18.00 Reception Orange Free State, South Africa Dr Chizu Nakajima Friday, 14 July 2000 16.45 Closing Remarks 9.00 Registration and coffee O Dr Oonagh McDonald CBE 9.20 Keynote Address Dr Chizu Nakajima Mr Michael Foot, Managing Director and Head of Professor Barry Rider Financial Supervision, Financial Services Authority There is a one-off administrative chargeo for attendance of £ 110 10.00 Session Four including VAT. The organisers have been able to set this low fee thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Nozu Foundation. Stability and Sustainability of the Financial Markets Further information and a booking form may be obtained from Maxine Douglass, Anglo-Japanese Centre for Financial Chairman: Mr Colin Bamford, Chief Executive, Regulation, City University Business School, Frobisher Crescent, Financial Law Panel Barbican Centre, London, EC2Y 8HB; tel. +44 (0)20 7477 Dr Mads Andenas, Director, British Institute of 8694; fax: +44 (0)207 7477 8885; e-mail www.city.ac.uk/cubs International and Comparative Law; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; former Director General (Legal), Royal Ministry of Finance, Norway Mr Kiyohiko Fukushima, President, Nomura Research Institute Europe Ltd 17

Amicus Curias Issue 27 May 2000 IALS Lectures Issues in Financial Regulation Summer 2000

The Institute is pleased to announce the following public The lecture will be held at the Institute of Advanced Legal lecture. Studies. Drinks and light refreshments will follow.

Wednesday 14 June, 6pm This lecture is eligible for one Law Society 'CPD' hour and ANTHONY MACAULAY one General Council of the Bar 'NPP' hour. Those wishingo to Partner, Herbert Smith obtain CPD and NPP accreditation must register on the evening The proposed European Takeovers Directive and the future of takeover regulation Admission free — all are welcome.

The Company Lawyer Lectures

Legal The Institute is pleased to announce the following public Both lectures will be held at the Institute of Advanced O follow. lectures under the auspices of the IALS Centre for Corporate Studies. Drinks and lighto refreshments will Law and Practice and acknowledges with gratitude the support Each lecture is eligible for one Law Society 'CPD' hour and of Sweet & Maxwell, publishers of The Company Lawyer. one General Council of the Bar 'NPP' hour. Those wishing to Wednesday 21 June, 6 7pm obtain CPD and NNP accreditation must register on the evening DR REBECCA PARRY of each lecture. Faculty of Law, University of Leicester For further information contact Belinda Cr'others, Academic The destination ofproceeds of insolvency litigation Assistant, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Monday 26 June, 6-7pm Square, London WC1B 5DR. Tel: 020 7862 7862; fax: 020 PROFESSOR LEN SEALY 7862 5850; e-mail: [email protected] Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge Directors' duties re-examined

Legal Skills Research Group: 2000 Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 June, 1 2pm Thursday 6 July, l-2pm SUMITRA VIGNAENDRA PROFESSOR WESLEY PUE Research and Policy Unit, Law Society Nemetz Chair in Legal History & Professor, Faculty of Law, Researching law students and graduates: too many statistics and not University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada enough knowledge? Sound and Jury, heat without light: the end of legal education

Over the past decade the career aspirations, destinations and This seminar reviews three key elements in contemporary progression of law student and graduate populations in England Canadian law schools: education, real law, and skills. and Wales, Australia and the US have become the subject of Both seminars will be held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. large-scale empirical surveys. This seminar will discuss Light refreshments will be availablefrom 12.30pm. Admission isfree and methodological issues arising out of research findings emerging all are welcome. Forjurther information contact Kim Economides (tel: from five main studies, and in the light of comparisons to be 01392 263379) or Professor Avrom Sherr (tel: 020 7862 5859). If drawn between the various different law student/graduate you would like to attend either of these seminars, please email Eliza populations. Boudier ([email protected]).

Lecture in Jewish Law

The tenth in a series of occasional lectures in Jewish law in the Human Rights, will speak on 'The struggle over Israel's emerging names of Leah and Alexander Woolf, sponsored by the Oxford constitution'. Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the Jewish Law The lecture takes place at the Institute of Advanced Legal Publication Fund Trustees, takes place on Monday 22 May at Studies and will be followed by drinks at 7.00pm. Further 6pm. Professor David Kretzmer, Hebrew University of details from Eliza Boudier (tel: 020 7862 5849). Jerusalem and member of the United Nations Committee on 18

Amicus Curiae Issue 27 May 2000 SALS Events

Annual General Meeting

NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies will be held at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DR, on Thursday 8 June 2000 at 4.30pm for the transaction of the following:

(1) To receive and approve the annual report of the Executive Committee on the Society's activities. (2) To receive and approve the accounts for the year ending 3 1 May 1999. (3) To re-elect Mr Christopher Hale as a member of the Executive Committee. (4) To re-appoint Knox Cropper as auditors and authorise the Executive Committee to fix their remuneration.

BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Professor Barry A K Rider Chairman Society for Advanced Legal Studies

Notes: The Annual Report and Accounts will be available for inspection by members on 8 June, at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WCIB SDK. A member entitled to attend and vote at the meeting is entided to appoint a proxy to attend and vote instead of him/her; a proxy need not be a member. Please be sure to complete and return the relevant Form of Proxy if you intend to appoint someone to attend in your name. Please note that Associate Fellows are welcome, but are not entided to vote.

Third Annual Lecture

The Society is pleased to present its Third Annual Lecture, to Rt Hon The Lord Steyn, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and be given by Professor JA Jolowicz QC, of Trinity College, on Chairman of the SALS Advisory Council. Thursday 8 June, 2000 at 5.30pm, at the Institute of To attend, please call the SALS office on 020 7862 5865 or e- Advanced Legal Studies. Entitled The reform of civil procedure: mail [email protected] isolationism or harmonisation?, the lecture will be chaired by The

Special lectures based on SALS working group reports Thursday 15 June, 6pm The lecture will begin at 3pm. Speeches by four panellists will Lecture based on the Report on Parallel Proceedings by the SALS each be followed by a question and answer session, finishing Working Group on Financial Regulations with a general question and answer session and a reception. The event will be presided over by the chairman of the working Four or five panellists will speak, followed by a debate, group, Peter Harris, and is due to end at 7pm. questions and a reception. The event will be presided over by the, George Staple QC, Chairman of the Working Group, and SALS Members: £15 ~ non members: £40. is due to end at 8pm. SALS members: free ~ non members: £10.00. Both events will take place at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Thursday 22 June, 3 pm 17 Russell Square, London. CPD points and NPP are available in A special extended lecture based on the SALS Family Law Working each case. For more information on these events, please contact the SALS Group's Report on The Cross-Border Movement of Children on (020) 7862 5865 or by email: [email protected]

June Lectures Thursday 1 June, 6pm harmonisation of investigative, criminal, civil and regulatory proceedings PROFESSOR HUGH BEALE (based on the SALS Financial Regulation Expert Working Group Commissioner, The Law Commission, and Professor of Law, Report on Parallel Proceedings). Warwick University Law School Chaired by William Blair QC Principles of European contract law — useful or legal esperanto? Both events will take place at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Chaired by Professor Ewan McKendrick, Department of Law, 1 7 Russell Square, and will be followed by a reception. CPD points and University College, London NPP are available. Attendance isjreejor SALS members, £5 for non- Thursday 15 June, 6pm members, payable on the door. Ifyou wish to register, please contact Tracy GEORGE STAPLE QC Paradise, SocietyJor Advanced Legal Studies, 1 7 Russell Square, London Partner, Clifford Chance WC1B 5DR; tel: 020 7862 5866; e-mail: [email protected] The labyrinth of major Jraud: practical suggestions Jbr the national 19

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