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Presentation by Hanna Ahlström, PhD Candidate, SMART Project, Department of Private Law.
The topic of this year’s PhD seminar is Nordic market actors and their impact on corporate sustainability. The seminar will provide Insights into topical issues in European and Nordic company and financial market Law.
Presentation by Beate Sjåfjell.
PhD candidate Yuliya Chernykh at the Department of Private Law will on Tuesday 20 June present her doctorate Project: "Contract interpretation in investment treaty arbitration".
Daughters of Themis: International Network of Female Business Scholars is pleased to announce the programme for its third annual workshop on the theme of ‘Interdisciplinary work and transdisciplinary outcomes’. The aim of the annual workshop is to provide a forum for open, intimate and inspiring discussions about female business scholars’ common areas of interest and is open to all in the broad field of business including but not limited to disciplines of law, economics, accounting, organizational studies, political science and sociology.
The Company Law Group hosts an informal lunch meeting to welcome back our visiting scholar, Dr. Mohamad Maarouf.
At this lunch seminar Dr. Jay Cullen, University of Sheffield, will give a lecture on "Securitisation, Ring-Fencing and Housing Bubbles: Financial Stability Implications of UK and EU Bank Reforms".
PhD candidate Linn Cecilie Anker-Sørensen at the Department of Private Law will on Thursday 16 March present her doctorate Project: "Control decoupling – implications for understanding modern corporate groups."
The deregulation of the financial markets in the 1980s and 1990s have challenged many of our perceptions about the interconnectedness of investments, corporate control and the influence of the relevant market actors. This conference address one of the key questions that has sprung out from the deregulation, namely how we can ensure financial transparency, delimit systemic risks and foster efficient regulation.
Yong Zhou at Norwegian Centre for Human Rights will be defending the thesis: Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) and Hydropower Development: Institutional Constraints on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in the Party-State China for the degree of Ph.D.
Master of Laws Marte Eidsand Kjørven at the Department of Private Law will be defending the thesis (Mis) selling of investment products to consumers – duties and responsibility for the degree of Ph.D.
Original title: Ytelse av investeringstjenester til forbruker: Verdipapirrettslige, kontraktsrettslige og erstatningsrettslige krav til atferd
The disputation will be held in Norwegian
In 2015, Daughters of Themis organised its first and highly successful workshop in Greece. In 2016, a lovely guesthouse on the island of Kea in Greece was selected as the venue, with the workshop proceedings held from Monday 30 May through Friday 3 June and with social events on Saturday 4 June, before closing of the workshop and return back home on Sunday 5 June. Also the 2016 workshop was a great success, as this report illustrates.
Papers from the 2016 workshop will be included in an edited volume, with Beate Sjåfjell and Irene Lynch-Fannon as editors.
Papers from the 2015 workshop are forthcoming in a special issue of the International and Comparative Corporate Journal, edited by Beate Sjåfjell and Roseanne Russell.
The research groups in Natural Resources Law and Companies, Markets, Society and the Environment have the pleasure of inviting to a seminar on circular economy, with discussion after the presentations.
Presentation by Dr. Kernaghan Webb, Associate Professor of Law and Business in Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management.
Lecture given by Dr Stelios Andreadakis, School of Law, University of Leicester.