IVR UK Branch Annual Conference 2017 Law, Rationality and the Market Friday 17 Saturday 18 November 2017 Halifax Hall, University of Sheffield

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1 IVR UK Branch Annual Conference 2017 Law, Rationality and the Market Friday 17 Saturday 18 November 2017 Halifax Hall, University of Sheffield Friday 17 November Registration & Refreshments (Registration Desk outside ) Welcome: Professor Robert Burrell, Head of School, University of Sheffield Convenors: Dr Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis (University of Sheffield) and Dr Oisin Suttle (Queen s University Belfast) Keynote Lecture: Equity in the Market, Dr Irit Samet (Kings College London) Chair: Dr Maks Del Mar (Queen Mary, President of IVR UK Branch) Refectory Lunch (IVR AGM will take place during lunch in ) Panel 1: 1. Competing Rationalities in Private Law Chair: Dr Ting Xu (University of Sheffield) Ennis i. James Davey (University of Southampton), Rational Carrots & Behavioural Sticks: Private Law in the Behavioural Era ii. Liam Kilvington (University of York) An Argument against Promise as the Basis of English Contract Law: Allaying Concerns Regarding Breach in the Commercial Contracting Context iii. Jacob Eisler (University of Cambridge), Product Liability and Probabilistic Risk 2. Distributive Justice beyond the State Chair: Dr Richard Collins (University College Dublin) i. Jorge E. Núñez (Manchester Metropolitan University), Sovereignty Conflicts and International Law and Politics: A Distributive Justice Issue ii. Kim Bouwer (University of Strathclyde), potential for procedural and distributive justice benefit sharing as a safeguard in climate finance iii. Oisin Suttle (Queen s University Belfast), Fitting theory to practice on the normative content of unfair trade iv. Muriuki Muriungi (Oxford University), Law, Rationality and Global Justice: Towards a Legal Framework on Sovereign Debt Restructuring for Developing Economies 1

2 3. Risk and Rationality in Administrative Governance Music i. Mary Dobbs (Queen s University Belfast), Flexible Rationality: Legitimising precautionary approaches? ii. Deni Mantzari (University of Reading), Economic Evidence and Administrative Discretion iii. Andreas Rüehmkorf (University of Sheffield), "Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility through private law - reflections on the new role(s) of private law Refectory Tea & Coffee Panel 2: 4. Limits of Legal Rationality Chair: Dr Richard Collins Music i. Samuel Walker (Bournemouth University) Economic and Legal Rationality ii. Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis (University of Sheffield), Bounded Rationality and the ECtHR: Consensus as Heuristic 5. Rationality and Political Community Ennis i. Ioanna Tourkochoriti, (NUI Galway), Locke, Smith, Rousseau and the Foundations of Constitutionalism in France and in the USA ii. Richard Mullender (Newcastle University), Politeia, Political Economy, and Community iii. Titie Zhang (University of Sheffield), Ad hoc arbitration in China 6. Rationality, Markets and Intellectual Property Chair: Dr Ting Xu i. Zubair Ahmed Khan (GGSIP University), oretical consideration of Biopiracy related to Traditional Medicine: A Human Rights Approach for Indigenous Communities in India ii. Aislinn O Connell (St Mary s University), Street Art and Copyright: A Rational Market Contradiction? iii. Gurujit Singh, (GGSIP University), Traditional Knowledge vs. Bio Piracy: Balancing Rights through Normative Regime iv. Nicholas J. Gervassis (Plymouth University), Market, Information and Law: Biopolitical Musings on the Regulation of Intangible Properties 16:30 Keynote Lecture: Why is EU freedom of movement worth preserving? Dr Andrea Sangiovanni (Kings College London) 2

3 18.00 Bar/ Lounge Conference Reception Ennis Conference Dinner (For pre booked delegates only. Otherwise separate registration required) 3

4 Saturday 18 November Refectory Tea & Coffee Keynote Lecture: Implied Term and the Fully Contingent Commodity Prof David Campbell (Lancaster University) Panel 3: 7. Rationality in Law and Finance i. Gary Wilson (Nottingham Trent University) and Sarah Wilson (York Law School), Law and Financial Marketplace Values in Twenty-first Century Britain: A role for religion in the search for a new rationality for post-crisis recovery? ii. Israel Cedillo Lazcano (University of Edinburgh), Shadow Banking. Bildungstrieb of the Financial Sector in the Fourth Industrial Revolution iii. Gerhard Schnyder (Loughborough University), Mathias Siems (Durham University), Ruth Aguilera (Northeastern University), 20 Years of Law and Finance : Time to Take Law Seriously iv. Susana Dávalos (National Autonomous University of Mexico) Evaluation of termination clauses in bankruptcy in the US and Germany 8. Contesting the Boundaries of Legal Rationality Ennis i. Peter Cserne (University of Hull), Law s artificial reason between moral reasoning and instrumental rationality: the example of private law doctrine ii. Lucas Velozo (New York University and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP), Artificial Intelligence, Rational Choices and Irrational Behaviour iii. David Barrett (Nottingham Trent University) Justifying the Use of Equality and Human Rights Laws in Market Based Societies Refectory Lunch Panel 4: 9. Legal Rationality and Corporate Agents i. Ope Adegbulu (University of Leeds), Public interest in corporate governance, where is the rationality? ii. Navajyoti Samanta (University of Sheffield), Does regulation matter? An empirical study on law and finance 4

5 iii. Caleb H. Wheeler (Middlesex University), Investigating and Prosecuting Chiquita Brands International s Employees for Human Rights Violations Committed in Colombia iv. Jing Wang (University of Huddersfield), Can CSR Help? When the Anti- Monopoly Law of China 2007 Fails to Balance State-Owned Enterprises and Privately-Owned SMEs 10. International Law, Global Markets and Ethical Rationalism Ennis i. Richard Collins (University College Dublin), Does International Law have an inherent purpose? Reflections on method in international legal theory ii. Patrick Capps (University of Bristol), Interpretivism in International Law Close 5