CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA

Recent conferences organised by staff in the School of Law include:

27-28 May 2010- 6th European Colloquium on Maritime Law Research - The Legal, Economic, Environmental, Insurance and Commercial implications of the Rotterdam Rules (Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law).  

10 – 11 September 2009 - International Colloquium on Cargo Claims Under The International Conventions – From The Hague To The Proposed Rotterdam Rules (Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law).  

24 July 2009 Temple of Peace, Cardiff - Human Rights Conference: Revisiting fundamental themes in Vienna Declaration Co-ordinators: Professor Volker Roeben V.Roeben@swansea.ac.uk or Dr. Helen Quane H.Quane@swansea.ac.uk                        

8 – 9 June 2009 - International Symposium on Recent Developments in Carriage of Goods by Sea: The Rotterdam Rules and Charterparties; Co-ordinator: Dr Baris Soyer (Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law and Shanghai Maritime University).

19 September 2008 - An inter-disciplinary collaboration organised by the Centre for Child Research and the School of Law, the Swansea University Children's Rights Conference  – From 20th Century Visions to 21st Century Implementation. Co-ordinator: Jane Williams (with Antonella Invernizzi).

11-12 September 2008 - International Colloquium on Voyage Charterparties, Swansea. Co-ordinators: Professor Rhidian Thomas and Dr Baris Soyer (Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law).

3 July 2008 - Symposium: Law Commissions’ Reform Proposals on Marine and Commercial Insurance, London. Co-ordinators: Professor Rhidian Thomas and Dr Baris Soyer (Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law).

21-22 May 2008 - Theorising the Global Legal Order, Conference, Swansea. Co-ordinators: Professor Andrew Halpin and Professor Volker Röben

16 April 2008 - Children's Rights Seminar Children's Rights: Research into violence against children, Swansea. Co-ordinator: Jane Williams (with Dr Antonella Invernizzi, Department of Childhood Studies).

CONFERENCE COLLABORATION

Carsten Stahn

Conference organiser, Marie Curie Research Network Conference (together with Dr. L van den Herik): Future Perspectives on International Criminal Justice, Grotius Centre for Int'l. Legal Studies, The Hague, 15 March 2008

Coordinator (with Dr. L. van den Herik), Marie Curie Research Course on Supranational Criminal Law, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, The Hague, 11-14 March.

Andrew Beale

Co-organiser, 6th International WIPO Forum, Cardiff, 10 - 11th September 2008