News Teaching fact analysis and fact management second workshop

The second annual workshop on teaching fact analysis and fact consideration on how causes celebres, or the records of ordinary management took place on 27 May and attracted over 40 trials, might be used in class. Much attention was devoted to the participants. Although most people attending came from trial of Bywaters and Thompson. universities and institutions teaching the Legal Practice Course o o Professor Terry Anderson from the University of Miami, the and Bar Vocational Course, there were a number of people who co-author with William Twining of Analysis of Evidence and teach undergraduate law; also a group from the police, forensic Rethinking Evidence, explained how fact analysis might be used laboratories and private investigation organisations. within the law curriculum and showed how his own course at This year the major innovation was to bring over Professor Miami had gained credence sufficient to be placed within the Dave Schum, Professor of Information Technology and important first year of the American Law School. Dr

Engineeringo o and also Professor of Law at Georgeo Mason Christopher Alien of the Inns of Court School of Law provided University near Washington DC. He is the author of several a session on some Wigmore exercises, in accordance with the books on evidence and inference, including Evidential Foundations courses he teaches on Evidence and Procedure in the LLM and also of Probabilistic Reasoning (1994), and has written a probabilistic as part of the Bar Vocational Course. analysis of fact-analysis for accountants, intelligence analysts and In a final panel discussion the four panellists showed how easy detectives. His current research work also includes work on it would be, to incorporate sessions on fact analysis and fact computer applications in marshalling evidence in criminal management into the law curriculum at different stages of the investigation. Professor Schum gave three talks during the day O O O J process, from undergraduate to continuing professional relating to Issues in Teaching Fact Analysis, Imaginative Reasoning in development. Fact handling a crucial part of legal work is Criminal Investigation and Computer Applications. His work was almost ignored in legal education and training. This was an fascinating and well received by those who attended. important step in placing it firmly on the map.

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William Twiningo of UniversityJ College,o ' London. His own Professor Avrom Sherr sessions included the half-hour introduction to the area and a MIS session on Trial Records as a Teaching Vehicle. This encouraged a

Working Group on Financial Regulation

The legal, practical and evidential problems that arise when Zealand and Singapore sub-group. proceedings are initiated at different levels within the legal and A common questionnaire is being drafted for use by the sub­ regulatory structure of a single jurisdiction, and in different groups. It is hoped that responses to the questionnaire jurisdictions in regard to the same or related matters, form the concerning the various jurisdictions will be available by early subject of the first study by the IALS Working Group on Autumn. Once problems in single jurisdictions have been Financial Regulation. The Group is chaired by George Staple identified, consideration will be given to the problems that QC, and consists of 38 practitioners and academics assisted by five researchers from the Institute and two researchers who are would arise when proceedings are initiated in different practising barristers. jurisdictions, concerning the same or related matters. At its first meeting the working group set up four sub-groups Liaison is being maintained with the Fraud Advisory Panel set to identify problems that arise in single jurisdictions within the up by the Audit Facility of the Institute of Chartered Accountants following geographical areas: in England and Wales, and in particular with the Panel's working UK; party on improving investigation and prosecution as an effective USA; deterrent to fraud.

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W G Hart Legal Workshop 1998

TRANSNATIONAL (CORPORATE) FINANCE Deposit Protection: Systemic Risk and Moral Hazard AND THE CHALLENGE TO THE LAW Laura Macgregor and Charlotte Villiers School of Law and Tuesday 7 July - Thursday 9 July 1998 Centre for Regulatory Studies, University of Glasgow Academic Directors Independence of Auditors: Comparing the Position of Spain and the UK Dr Mads Andenas King's College London Group Two: Financial Liberalisation & Institutional Dr Christos Hadjiemmanuil London School of Economics Reform (cont) and Political Science Dr Christos Hadjiemmanuil Alastair Hudson Queen Mary and Westfield College The Framework for Monetary Stability: A Role for Currency Boards? Dr Chizu Nakajima City University Business School Dr Frederique Dahan and Gerald McCormack Department of Law, University of Essex PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME Securities and Credit in Economies in Transition (Central and Easter Europe) Tuesday 7 July 1998 Mark Armstrong Department of Law, University of Lancaster 9.15-9.45 REGISTRATION The Political Economy of International Transfer Pricing, 1945 1 997 9.45 10.15 Welcome by Professor Barry Rider (Director, Institute of 17.45 RECEPTION Advanced Legal Studies) Introduction by the Academic Directors Wednesday 8 July 1998 Day Two: Modern Financial Techniques Day One: International Convergence 9.30-11.00 SESSION ONE: NEW FINANCIAL 10.15-11.00 TECHNIQUES Francois Gianviti General Counsel, International Monetary Fund Philip Wood Partner, Alien & Overy; Visiting Professor, Queen Speaker to be confirmed Mary and Westfield College International Convergence and the Role of the IMF Set-Off in Financial Transactions Andre Newburg former General Counsel, European Bank of Schuyler Henderson Baker & McKenzie Reconstruction and Development; Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton The Legal Context of Credit Derivatives Financial Law Reform in the Transition Economies 11.30-12.45 SESSION TWO: PROBLEMS WITH OTC Professor J J Norton Sir John Lubbock Professor of Banking DERIVATIVES Law, Queen Mary and Westfield College Ed Murray Derivatives Partner, Alien & Overy; Lawyer to ISDA Asian Financial Crises and Financial Law Reform Ned Swan Cameron McKenna; Fellow in Financial Services Law, IALS 14.00-15.30 PARALLEL WORKSHOPS Jeff Golden Alien & Overy Group One: Regulatory Convergence

Professor Sol Picciotto University of Lancaster; and 14.00-15.30 PARALLEL WORKSHOPS Jason Haines University of Lancaster and London Guildhall Group One: The Regulation of Derivatives University Professor David Campbell Sheffield Hallam University; and Regulating Global Financial Markets Professor Sol Picciotto University of Lancaster George Walker Research Fellow in UK Financial Law, Queen The Origins and Justifications of Financial Futures Exchanges Mary and Westfield College Professor Janet Dine Professor of Law, University of Essex International Regulatory Convergence and the Supervision of Financial The Regulation of Derivatives: Identifying Difficulties and Creating Models Conglomerates of Regulation Group Two: Financial Liberalisation & Institutional Reform Professor Bill Rees Barrister; Visiting Professor of Law, Bournemouth University; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Dr Rosa Maria Lastra Research Fellow in International and Financial Monetary Law, Queen Mary and Westfield College Alternative Dispute Resolution in Derivatives Markets Central Banking and International Convergence Group Two: New Contexts of Debt: Securitisation and Douglas Arner Queen Mary and Westfield College Project Finance Financial Support for Economies in Crises Andrew Haynes Head, Institute of Finance Law, University of Wolverhampton) 16.00-17.30 PARALLEL WORKSHOPS (cont) Legal Developments in Debt Securitisation Group One: Regulatory Convergence (cont) Stephen Petri Chief Counsel, European Bank of Andrew Campbell and Peter Cartwright Department of Reconstruction and Development Law, University of Wales, Aberystwyth Title to be confirmed 16.00-17.30 Contractual Ramifications of Securities Regulation: Challenges Facing Group Three: Private Law and Market Development Public and Private International Law Joanna Benjamin Financial Law Panel Olusoji Elias Member of the International Bar Association Capital Markets Forum Conflict of Law Implications of Immobilisation Public Regulatory and Private Transactional Legal IssuesJor Transitional College Alastair Hudson Queen Mary and Westfield and Pre-Emerging Markets Seller Liability in Credit Derivatives Markets Lazaros E Panourgias Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Robin Mackenzie University of Kent Law School USA Intellectual Property Issues in Transnational Finance The Dilemma Between Further Liberalisation in Financial Services and the Need to Protect Domestic Markets from Systemic Risk Group Four: Uses and Abuses in Modern Financial Techniques Professor Panagiotis Tridimas Anne Crossfield Barrister The Role of European Securities Regulation Fraud and Modern Financial Products Dr John Board Department of Accounting and Finance, Workshop Two London School of Economics and Political Science Sandeep Savla Barrister, Temple Chambers; Institute of Regulation and the Economics of Financial Techniques Advanced Legal Studies Dr Elias Dinenis Head of Department, Investment, Risk The UK Law on International Co-operation and Financial Intermediaries Management and Insurance, City University Business School Pedro Gustavo Teixeira European University Institute, Italy Uses and Abuses of Derivative: Technical Issues The Design of Transnational Capital Market Law as a 'Lex Mercatoria 17.45 RECEPTION SPONSORED BY THE BRITISH Specialis' INSTITUTE OF SECURITIES LAW Antonio Franchi University of Siena, Italy The Scission of Companies in Italian Law: Procedures and Thursday 9 July 1998 Implementation Issues Day Three: Securities Regulation 10.00-10.45 Workshop Three Professor Jan Dalhuisen King's College London Emilios Avgouleas Fellow, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science Principles of European Property Law and the European Internal Market in Banking The Question of Harmonisation of'Conduct oj Business Rules' in the EC: Tensions Between the EC Principles of Subsidiarity and Investor Protection 11.15-12.45 Mattias Berg Stockholm University Dr Chizu Nakajima Senior Lecturer, City University Business School The Scope of the General Good Notion in the Second EC Banking Japanese Securities Regulation: New Regulatory Structures Directive According to Recent Case Law Dr Mads Andenas Nina Tornberg Stockholm University European Securities Regulation and the Internal Financial Market The Commissions' Communications on Financial Services Further information and application forms are available from: 14.00-16.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Belinda Crothers, Academic Assistant, Institute of Advanced Workshop One Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WCIB 5DR. Tel: 0171 Mahmood Bagheri Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 637 1731. Fax: 0171 580 9613. Email: [email protected]. SALS Events

The Executive Committee of the Society is pleased to MICHAEL MANSFIELD QC announce the following programme of events in London which of 14 Tooks Court are open to members of the SALS and their guests. The Society One lawfor the rich .... for Advanced Legal Studies is pleased to include the inaugural lectures of the British Japanese Law Association (BJLA) as part 13 October 5.30pm, Venue to be announced of the 1998 series. PROFESSOR LORD RENFREW OF KAIMSTHORN 2 July (BJLA) 6.00pm, IALS University of Cambridge MR HIROSHI NAKA Preventing the looting of antiquities: the search for a legal basis Special Adviser in Europe to the Ministry of Finance in Japan 22 October 5.30pm, IALS Tokyo Big Bang DR ANTHONY JULIUS 10 July 5.30pm, IALS Mishcon de Reya MR KERN ALEXANDER T S Eliot: Anti-semitism and censorship Attorney at Law, Schaeffer & Clayton (Florida) 29 October The extra-territorial application of US trade sanctions: obtaining SECOND ANNUAL DINNER - MIDDLE TEMPLE jurisdiction over third country nationals Further lectures and events will be announced. 23 July 5.30pm, IALS If you would like to attend any ol these events or further THE RT HON LORD JUSTICE MILLETT information, please contact: Juliet Fussell, Secretary, SALS, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Restitution: outstanding problems Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DR; tel: 0171 637 1731; fax: 24 September 5.30pm, Venue to be announced 18 0171 637 5216; e-mail: [email protected]