Professor Scott Brewer will present a lecture on the topic of the relation between evidence and reason in a world of “post truth” politics and law.  The Enlightenment project sought to place reason at the center of understanding both the world and the human being.  On this view, evidence was an essential tool of reasoned understanding – evidence from the world, from the study of humans’ political and social existence, and from introspection of the human mind itself.  But this faith in reason and reasoned evidence became, and remains, deeply shaken.  In part, this shaken faith was enabled by the work of three great Doubters: Nietzsche (who taught that we should be suspicious of our religious, moral, and political beliefs and actions),...

IACPIL Conference Receivables and Securities in Private International Law 29 November 2018 Sigmund Freud University Freudplatz 3, 1020 Vienna, Austria 15:30 Welcome Panel 1 The law applicable to third-party effects of assignment of claims 15:40 – 15:55 Ondrej Vondracek (EU Commission) The proposal for a regulation on the law applicable to third-party effects of assignment COM(2018) 96 final – An insider perspective 15:55 – 16:10 Spyridon Bazinas Approaches to the law applicable to third-party effects of assi-gnment taken in uniform law 16:10 – 16:25 Eva-Maria Kieninger (Universität Würzburg) The law applicable to third-party effects of assignment – conside-rations from a continental European perspective 16:25 – 16:40 Michel Deschamps (McCarthy) The law applicable to third-party effects of assignment – comparison between the Commission proposal and the...

Current legislative trends in private law regulation of digital assets 4 December 2018, 6 pm IACPIL in cooperation with Stadler Völkel Rechtsanwälte GmbH Sigmund Freud University Freudplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria Chair: Florian Heindler, IACPIL 18:00-18:20 Perspectives from the UK – Findings of the UK Cryptoassets Taskforce Final Report Burcu Yüksel, University of Aberdeen 18:20-18:40 Current trends in Russian Private Law Regulation of Digital Assets Maxim Bashkatov, Moscow State University 18:40-19:00 Digital Assets – current state of jurisprudence and common positions in Germany Anton Zimmermann, Universität Heidelberg 19:00-19:20 Private Law Regulation of Digital Assets in Austria -Suggestions and Considerations Oliver Völkel, Stadler Völkel Rechtsanwälte GmbH Discussion The talk on current legislative trends in private law regulation of digital assets is...

Reducing risk in cross-border transactions The Role of the Hague Choice of Court Convention 13 December 2018, 6 pm Sigmund Freud University Freudplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria Thomas John (ACIArb) Hague Conference on Private International Law, Permanent Bureau Thomas John works as Principal Legal Officer at the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Confe-rence of Private Internation Law. He will di-scuss identification of typical risks in cross-border transactions with a particular focus on certain transactional, litigation and enforce-ment risks typically encountered by parties. While domestic settings are used for compa-rison purposes, Thomas will concentrate on the international aspects of those risks, intro-ducing risk management and mitigation strategies, including as available under the 2005 Hague Choice of Court Convention which has entered...