3rd ANNUAL ASPER INTLAW CONFERENCE

APRIL 25-26, 2017

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Mario Bouchard

Mario Bouchard est membre du Barreau du Québec et détient une maîtrise en droit de l’Université Laval. De 1990 à 2013, il a été avocat général auprès de la Commission du droit d’auteur, après avoir été légiste auprès de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec, chargé de cours à la faculté de droit de l’Université de Birmingham (R.-U.), coordonnateur de la section de droit administratif de la Commission de réforme du droit du , courtier en vins, avocat au ministère fédéral de la Justice et directeur des services juridiques de la Commission de l’immigration et du statut de réfugié. Il a comparu devant la Cour d’appel fédérale et la Cour suprême du Canada. Il est l’auteur d’articles traitant de droit d’au- teur, de droit administratif et de recours collectif. Il siège sur le comité consultatif du programme de propriété intellec- tuelle et technologie à la Osgoode Hall School.

A member of the , Mario Bouchard holds a Master’s degree from l’Université Laval. He acted as General Counsel to the Copyright Board from 1990 to 2013. He was legislative counsel to the Quebec National Assembly, teaching associate in Public Law, of Birmingham (U.K.), research coordinator of the Administrative Law Project of the Law Reform Commission of Canada, wine broker, counsel to the Federal Department of Justice and Head of Legal Services at the Immigration and Refugee Board. He has appeared before the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. He has authored papers dealing with copyright, administrative law and class actions. He is a member of the external advisory board of the Intellectual Property Law and Technology Program at Osgoode Hall .

Evaristus Oshionebo

Evaristus Oshionebo joined the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Law on July 1, 2013. He was awarded a Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award in 2014, a rarity for professors in their first year at an institution. The award honours faculty members and instructors for their commitment to student success.

Prior to joining the University of Calgary, he was a tenured Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Man- itoba. In 2013, he won the University of Manitoba/University of Manitoba Faculty Association Merit Award for Excel- lence in Teaching, as well as the Students’ Teacher Recognition Award for outstanding teaching. Prior to his academic career, he practiced law in specializing in corporate and commercial litigation. He was also Deputy Editor of a number of Law Reports including the Supreme Court of Nigeria Law Reports, the Nigerian Weekly Law Reports, and the Commercial Law Reports Quarterly.

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SPEAKERS:

Olabisi D. Akinkugbe

Olabisi D. Akinkugbe (Bisi) is completing his doctoral degree at the Faculty of Law, and is a term assistant professor of law at the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick. His research agenda is situated within contemporary debates on the role of law in economic development and on the potential for an alliance of various tra- ditions from development economics, law, history and politics to understand development policy. At the heart of his research work is an examination of the embedded role of law as a tool for socio-economic development in contracts and regional trade agreements. This idea has informed his doctoral work, publications and forthcoming research. He adopts a socio-legal approach in his thesis to examine how the implementation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Treaties have been shaped and influenced by the changing historical, economic and political conditions in the region. Prior to his doctoral work, Bisi worked as a Legal Counsel on the first public-private partner- ship road project in West Africa where he advised on various aspects of the transaction and project implementation. He earned his Masters from the University of Toronto, Canada, and an LLB from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. At the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick he currently teaches Contracts, International Trade Law and a seminar on Law and Development. His research interests include business law, transnational law, socio-legal approaches to law, law and development, and African regional economic integration.

Qingxiu Bu

Qingxiu joined Sussex Law School in 2013, having previously been a lecturer in law at Cardiff Law School, (2007-08) and School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast (2008-13), during which he taught Transnational Business Law at the Centre of Transactional Legal Studies (CTLS), Georgetown University as Adjunct Professor. Qingxiu was also the Founding Director of the LLM in Law and International Commerce Programme at the Law School, Queen’s University Belfast. He has held visiting posts at various institutions, including Lund University, Sweden; the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International in ; and Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University. Qingxiu was also a at the Institute of Global Law and Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School in January, 2015.

Laura Napoli Coordes

Laura Coordes is an Associate Professor of Law at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Her research focuses on bankruptcy and financial distress, including commercial law, large corporate reorganizations, and local government finance and policy. She teaches Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Secured Transactions, and Contracts. Professor Coordes is an active member of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) and frequently publishes in the ABI’s committee newsletters. She serves as a volunteer editor for the ABI’s Volo project, which summarizes and disseminates bankruptcy-related circuit court opinions. Professor Coordes is a member of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) and has served as a peer reviewer for the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. Locally, she is an Honorary Master of the Arizona Bankruptcy American Inn of Court.

Before coming to the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Professor Coordes practiced in the Business, Finance and Restructuring Department at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in . She graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a Bradley and served on the University of Chicago Law Review. After grad- uating from law school, she completed a legal fellowship at the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Virginia.

Alexander Ezenagu

Alexander Ezenagu is a legal practitioner called to the Nigerian bar. He is currently completing a in Interna- tional at McGill University, Canada, and holds a Master of (LLM) from the , . His doctoral research focuses on international tax law and policy issues, with emphasis on the rela- tionship between taxation and economic development and on the roles of government and non-government institu- tions and actors in the creation of tax policies and . 3rd ANNUAL ASPER INTLAW CONFERENCE

SPEAKERS:

Leslyn Lewis

Leslyn Lewis is currently a member of the of Upper Canada. She earned a from the Uni- versity of Toronto, Trinity College where she graduated magna cum laude. She went on to pursue a joint Masters in Environmental Studies and Juris Doctorate degree from Osgoode Hall Law School. While at York University she also earned a Masters in Business Administration with concentration in Business and the Environment from the Schulich School of Business. Upon completing the Masters and law degrees she articled on Bay Street at Goodman & Carr, and practised civil and commercial litigation for six years on Bay Street prior to opening her own law practice. Her current legal practice is focussed on international licensing agreements in the energy sector. She is currently in her 3rd year as a PhD Student at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she focuses on foreign direct investments for green energy projects in the developing world.

Darcy MacPherson

Darcy L. MacPherson is an Associate Professor at the faculty of Law, University of Manitoba. He has been a member of the Faculty since 2002. He has taught courses in Agency and Partnerships, Corporate Law, Criminal Law, Secured Trans- actions, and the Law of Taxation, among others. His research interests include corporate criminal liability, corporate law, disability and health, tax law, and agency and partnerships.

Ivan Mugabe

Ivan has a legal background that has been shaped by combining perspectives from both commercial rights alongside human rights. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Law with Honours (LLB) from Uganda Christian University, a Master’s de- gree in International Commercial Law (LLM) from University of South Wales (formerly the University of Glamorgan), UK, and a Master’s degree in LLM International Human Rights Law from Cardiff University, UK Wales. He is currently a 4th year research Candidate at Cardiff University.

Charldera Murphy

Charldera is an LLM () candidate in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University, Kingston. She obtained her LLB (Bachelor of Laws) at the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Barbados. Her area of concentration is international law with a focus on international trade law. Charldera’s research examines the potential impact that the implementa- tion of the new World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) would have in developing Carib- bean countries. One of Charldera’s main goals is to pursue a career in international trade law and gain experience at a renowned international trade organization. Charldera’s desire to pursue a career in international trade law was sparked during her second year of studying her LLB when she was introduced to the topic of Public International Law.

Temi Onifade

Temi has Master’s degrees in Law and Environmental Policy, and has worked as a , a law lecturer, and an interdis- ciplinary researcher. His research area is energy and environmental law and policy. He has published in journals such as Energy Policy, Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review, and Human Rights Review, among others. He has also pre- pared policy and/or business documents. He is currently the John Ballem QC LLD Post-Graduate Fellow in Energy Law at the University of Calgary.

Reem Radhi

Reem Radhi is a Bahraini PhD candidate at in the UK. Her thesis studies restorative justice theory in the context of corporate crime. At Durham, Reem is the Deputy Convenor of the Law and Global Justice research group, and a member of the Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice and the Institute of Commercial and Corpo- rate Law research groups. Reem holds an LLB (Durham University), MSc (International Business) (Durham University), PgDip in Legal Practice (), and an LLM (Duke University). Reem is the first Bahraini na- tional to graduate from Duke Law School in the USA. Before starting her PhD, she was a Visiting Scholar and an Associ- ate in Research at Duke Law School, and a Legal Case Manager at IBM in North Carolina, USA. She has also completed internships at several British law firms in the UK, USA, Bahrain and UAE. 3rd ANNUAL ASPER INTLAW CONFERENCE

SPEAKERS:

Bryan Schwartz

Dr. Bryan Schwartz (JSD Yale) is the Asper Professor of International Business and Trade Law at the University of Mani- toba Law School. He is the founding editor of the Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law, and the princi- pal author of ten books and over eighty academic articles.

Jin Sheng

Dr. Jin Sheng is currently a Grotius research scholar at the University of Michigan Law School, honorary fellow of Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of , and adjunct research fellow of the National University of Singapore Centre for Banking and Finance Law. Jin holds law degrees from New York University, Uni- versity of Hong Kong, University of Toronto, and Peking University. She was a visiting post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Law in 2016 and a visiting fellow at the Asian Law Centre of Mel- bourne University in 2007. In 2015, her book on China’s stock market - China’s Listed Companies: Conflicts, Governance and Regulation - was published by Wolters Kluwer in the International Banking and Finance Series.

Robert Sroka

Robert Sroka is a PhD student at the University of Michigan. He holds a BA (Hons.) and JD from the University of as well as a LLM from the University of Calgary. Robert practices municipal law part-time with Lidstone & Company in Vancouver and articled with The City of Calgary Law Department. In addition to the Asper Review, his work has appeared in the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.

Rahina Zarma

Rahina Zarma is a doctoral student at Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada and is currently researching envi- ronmental and social justice issues across Africa. She recently completed her LLM at the University of Sas- katchewan after obtaining an LLB and BL from the University of Jos, Nigeria and Nigerian Law School. She is currently a refugee officer at the Nigerian Refugee Commission, a Centre for International Governance Inno- vation (CIGI) scholar and a recipient of the University of Saskatchewan Graduate Teaching Fellowship Award. She serves on the Osgoode Graduate Law Students Committee (GLSA) and sits on a number of committees within and outside the GLSA.

Asper Chair of International Business and Trade Law

In 1999, the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba established the Asper Chair of International Business and Trade Law. The Asper Chair sponsors a variety of research including academic conferences in international business and trade law. An internship program allows up to four students a year to work with the Asper Chair and creates opportunities for students to advance their education, while gaining skills necessary to pursue careers in law or business with an international focus. Additionally, students involved in the Asper program have the opportunity to participate in international commercial dispute resolution competitions. 3rd ANNUAL ASPER INTLAW CONFERENCE

AGENDA - TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2017 7:00am - 8:20am Breakfast 8:20am - 8:30am Introductions 8:30am - 9:30am Evaristus Oshionebo Keynote: International Investment Projects and ‘Social Licence’ to Operate: Trends in the Natural Resource Sector 9:40am - 10:20am Ivan Mugabe The Legality of the Charitable Model of Disability Under Corporate Social Responsibility 10:30am - 11:10am Temi Onifade Law, Society, and the Regulation of Transnational Corporations in the Executive Sector 11:20am - 12:00pm Alexander Ezenagu Faltering Blocks in the Arguments Against Unitary Taxation and the Formulary Apportionment Approach to Income Allocation 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch 1:00pm - 1:40pm Robert Sroka Friends with Net Benefits: The Investment Canada Act and State Owned Enterprises 1:50pm - 2:30pm Laura Napoli Coordes New Rules for a New World: How Technology Shapes Bankruptcy Venue Reform 2:40pm - 3:20pm Leslyn Lewis Evergreening through Trade Secrets as an Impediment to Green Technology Transfer to the Developing World 3:20pm - 3:50pm Break 3:50pm - 4:50pm Mario Bouchard Keynote: The 2017 Parliamentary Review of Copyright Law

AGENDA - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 2017

7:00am - 8:30am Breakfast 8:30am - 9:10am Olabisi Akinkugbe Re-Conceptualizing Regionalism in Africa: A Socio-Legal Approach to the Study of the Economic Community in West-African States 9:20am - 10:00am Charldera Murphy The Importance of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) to Caribbean Countries 10:10am - 10:50am Jin Sheng The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as an Alternative MDB: A Competitor or a Compensator for the Established Global Financial Architecture? 11:00am - 11:40am Rahina Zarma Regulatory Ineffectiveness of Transnational Oil Companies in Nigeria: Causes, Consequences and a Potential Role for the ECOWAS 11:50am - 12:30pm Bryan Schwartz Going, Gone and Strangely Persistent: A Comparison of Three Supply Management Systems in Canada 12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch 1:30pm - 2:10pm Darcy MacPherson Corporate Criminal Liability: A Cross-Border Comparison 2:20pm - 3:00pm Reem Radhi Restorative Justice for Corporate Criminal Liability and Sentencing 3:00pm - 3:30pm Break 3:30pm - 4:10pm Qingxiu Bu Extraterritorial Jurisdiction vis-à-vis Sovereignty in Tackling Transnational Counterfeits: Between a Rock and a Hard Place? *Please note that this schedule may be subject to change. Eligible for up to 11.5 hours of professional development.