A Comparative Analysis of General Anti Avoidance Provisions
Judith Freedman has been awarded the 2012-13 Oxford-Melbourne Research Partnership funding with Ann O’Connell at Melbourne Law School. The two year project on “A Comparative Analysis of General Anti Avoidance Provisions” will include an international conference on recent proposals on the GAAR in February 2012. The research funding is part of the funding provided to Melbourne and Oxford by Allan Myers QC.
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Events
Monday 30 January 2012
Russian And Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Night Seminar series
After twenty years: Russia, human rights, and legal reform, Professor Jeffrey Kahn, Law School, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, at 17:00
Lessons in Government Seminars
Talk by David Laws MP, David Laws, at 17:00
Migration Law Discussion Group - Hilary Term 2012
External State Protection and the Predicament of Recognised Geneva Convention Refugees, Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler, Dphil candidate, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, at 18:30
Tuesday 31 January
ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Targeted Killing in War and Peace: A Philosophical Analysis, Professor Fernando Teson, Florida State University College of Law, at 13:00
Isaiah Berlin Lecture : A New World’ – Philosophical Idealism in America
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature, Professor Kenneth Winkler, Yale University, at 17:00
Conferences
& Workshops
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Thursday 2 February 2012
EU Law Discussion Group jointly with the Comparative Law Discussion Group
Common European Sales Law: Why, and Why Not, Professor Hugh Beale (University of Warwick), Professor Stephen Weatherill (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Whittaker (University of Oxford), at 1700
Friday 10 February
A GAAR for the UK? Building on overseas experience., Professor Ann O’Connell, Hon Justice Tony Pagone, Professor Graeme Cooper, Professor David Duff, Wayne Adams, Professor Craig Elliffe, Ed Liptak, Graham Aaronson QC, Philip Baker QC, Chris Davidson, Malcolm Gammie QC, John Bartlett, Professor Judith Freedman, Sir Launcelot Henderson, The Rt. Hon Professor Lord Hoffmann, Howard Nowlan, Professor John Tiley QC
Tuesday 14 February
Law and Finance Workshop
"Contracting Co-Determination: An Analysis of Bargaining over Co-Determination Rules for a Societas Europaea" and "International Corporate Group Rescue and Insolvency: Principles, Models, Reform", Horst Eidenmuller, Professor of Private Law, German, European and International Company Law, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and Felix Steffek, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, at 13:00
Tuesday 6 March
Law and Finance Workshop
"Private equity backed IPOs" and "Private Equity Control over Portfolio Companies", Howard Jones and Ruediger Stucke, Senior Research Fellow in Finance and Research Fellow in Finance and Economics, Saïd Business School and Jeremias Prassl, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, at 13:00
Thursday 8 March
Law and Finance Workshop
"Holding bank directors accountable: the role of boards, institutional shareholders and micro-prudential regulators", "Tug of War between an open market for corporate control and a long-term vision for UK firms: Revisiting the advisory role of target directors during a UK bid post the takeover of Cadbury's plc" and "What'’s (un)problematic about corporate power?", Andreas Kokkinis, UCL Faculty of Laws, Georgina Tsagas, QMUL School of Law and Marc Moore, UCL Faculty of Laws, at 15:30
