PAST CONFERENCES: 1998 

19.00 - 20.00 Opening Ceremony, Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol 

20.00 Welcome reception in honour of the participants and accompanying persons 

09.15-10.45 Commercial Law Assignment of receivables in the world of modern finance. General Rapporteur: Professor Peter Winship, James Cleo Thompson Sr. Trustee Professor, School of Law, Southern Methodist University, Dallas (USA) 

09.15-10.45 Agrarian Law Agricultural Credit. General Rapporteur: Professor Louis Lorvellec, Faculté de droit, Université de Nantes (France) 

11.15-12.45 General Legal Theory and Legal Philosophy Arguability. General Rapporteur: J.Piers Gardner, Director, British Institute of International and Comparative Law (United Kingdom) 

11.15-12.45 Constitutional Law The evaluation of parliamentary scrutiny. General Rapporteur: Professor Carlos E.Colautti, Vice-President of the Argentine Association of Comparative Law, Buenos Aires (Argentina) 

12.45-14.15 Lunch Break 

14.15-15.45 Civil Law The protection of human subjects in medical research. General Rapporteur: Professor Ergun Özsunay, University of Istanbul (Turkey) 

14.15-15.45 Civil Procedure. A comparative study of the rules and regulations governing transboundary legal practice at the close of the twentieth century. General Rapporteur: Professor Vincenzo Varano, Université degli Studi di Firenze, dipartimento di diritto comparato e penale, Sezione di diritto comparato (Italy) 

14.15-15.45 Criminal Procedure The use of unattributed or anonymised evidence in the legal proceedings of repressive jurisdictions. General Rapporteur: Andrzej Murzynowski, President of the Supreme Court of Poland, Professor, Institute of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, (Poland) 

09.15-10.45 Administrative Law The responsibility of the State as legislator. General Rapporteur: Professor Mitsuo Kobayakawa, University of Tokyo (Japan) 

11.15-12.45 Commercial Law A new approach to international commercial contracts: the UNIDROIT principles of international commercial contracts. General Rapporteur: Michael J.Bonell, Director, Istituto di diritto comparato, Facolté di giurisprudenza, Université degli studi di Roma (Italy) 

11.15-12.45 Criminal Law The regulation of financial markets with particular reference to market abuse. General Rapporteur: Professor Barry A.K. Rider, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London (United Kingdom) 

11.15-12.45 Intellectual Property Rights The legal protection of biological material. General Rapporteurs: Professor Joseph Strauss, Head of Department, Max-Planck-Institut für auslandisches und internationales Patent-, Urheber-und Wettbewerbsrecht, Munich, (Germany) and Professor Margaret Brazier, Faculty of Law University of Manchester (United Kingdom) 

12.45-14.15 Lunch Break 

14.15-15.45 Commercial Law Corporate governance. General Rapporteur: Mme Rita Trigo Trindade, docteur en droit, Lausanne (Switzerland) 

14.15-15.45 Civil Procedure Summary adjudication. General Rapporteur: The Rt. Hon. Sir John Balcombe, retired Judge, Court of Appeal of England and Wales (United Kingdom) 

09.15-10.45 Private International Law Private International Law at the End of the Twentieth Century: Progress or Regress? General Rapporteur: Symeon C. Symeonides, Vice-Chancellor and Judge Albert Tate Professor, Louisiana University Law Center (USA) 

09.15-10.45 Bibliography The impact of the Internet on legal bibliography. General Rapporteur: Professor John Adams, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Sheffield; Director of the Intellectual Property Institute, London, (United Kingdom) 

11.15-12.45 Civil Law The 'Gentlemen's Agreement in legal theory and in modern practice. General Rapporteur: Professor Bernard Rudden, Brasenose College, Oxford (United Kingdom) 

11.15-12.45 General Legal Theory and Legal Philosophy Language and Law. General Rapporteur: Erik Jayme, Director, Institüt fur Ausländisches und Internationales Privat-und Wirtschaftsrecht, Heidelberg (Germany) 

11.15-12.45 Constitutional Law The domestic constitutional implications of participation in a regional integration process. General Rapporteur: Professor Allan Randolph Brewer-Carias, Advocate; Professor of Administrative Law, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas (Venezuela) 

12.45-14.15 Lunch Break 

14.15-15.45 Comparative Law and Unification of the Law Reciprocal influences and evolving legal systems. General Rapporteur: Professor John C. Reitz, University of Iowa College of Law, (USA) 

14.15-15.45 Labour Law Flexibilisation of working life. Potentials and challenges for labour law. General Rapporteur: Professor Reinhold Fahlbeck, Faculty of Law, University of Lund (Sweden) 

from 16.00 Meeting of the International Academy of Comparative Law 

09.15-10.45 Air and Maritime Law Multimodal transport. Carrier liability and issues relative to bills of lading. General Rapporteur: Professor Alaki Kiantou-Pamboukis, University of Thessaloniki (Greece) 

11.15-12.45 Administrative Law Legitimate expectation. General Rapporteur: Jean-Marie Woehrling, président du Tribunal administratif de Strasbourg (France) 

11.15-12.45 Public International Law The introduction and implementation in domestic legal systems of United Nations Security Council Chapter VII resolutions. General Rapporteur: Professor Krateros Ioannou, Democratic University of Thrace, Director, Centre of European and International Economic Law (Greece) 

11.15-12.45 Computers Legal theory and practice in new methods of interactive telecommunication (the Internet) General Rapporteur: Professor Herbert Maisl, University of Paris I (France) 

12.45-14.15 Lunch Break 

14.15-15.45 Human Rights Access to justice as a fundamental right. General Rapporteur: Thijmen C. Koopmans, Advocate General of the Court Casshation, (Netherlands) 

14.15-15.45 Tax Law Tax Law and Confidentiality. General Rapporteur: Professor Joseph Darby, University of San Diego School of Law (USA) 

14.15-15.45 Constitutional Law Constitutional limitations on privatisation. General Rapporteurs: Professor Gustavo Zagrebelsky, Judge Constitutional and Professor (et) the Université di Milano (Italy) and Professor David Feldman, Faculty of Law, University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) 

14.15-15.45 Special Session of the Alumni of the International Faculty of Comparative Law Bioethics: recent legislative developments 

09.15-10.45 Private International Law The operation of security rights in the context of international insolvency. General Rapporteur: Mme Nadine Watté, directrice de droit privé de la Faculté de droit de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) 

11.15-12.45 Constitutional Law Constitutionalisation of legal order. General Rapporteur: Professor Louis Favoreu, Faculté de droit, Université d' Aix-Marseille II, Aix-en-Provence (France) 

11.15-12.45 Criminal Law Criminal proof and genetic testing. General Rapporteur: Professor Donald Chalmers, Faculty of Law, University of Hobart, Tasmania (Australia) 

from 12.45 Afternoon Free 

19.30 Reception followed by a Gala Dinner Hosted by the Congress Organizing Committee in the magnificent Great Hall of Bristol Grammar School