Final Programme - International Bar Association
Final Programme - International Bar Association
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The IBA Global Financial<br />
Crisis Project<br />
Our programme in Dublin takes on a very important theme<br />
this year. IBA President Akira Kawamura has extended<br />
the IBA’s Global Financial Crisis (GFC) Project to address<br />
his and our profession’s profound concerns for the predicament of<br />
the poor. Phase Two will assess, and to the extent that it is feasible,<br />
propose social and legal reforms that would remediate the hardships<br />
encountered in society as a consequence of cataclysmic events such<br />
as the GFC.<br />
Given their connection to the work of the Task Force, a series of<br />
sessions for this conference have been highlighted as ‘President<br />
Priority Sessions’ and are so noted in the programme and listed<br />
below. These sessions will be monitored and their contents<br />
summarised for inclusion in a planned book of papers.<br />
Hendrik Haag, former Chair of the Legal Practice Division, led Phase<br />
One of the Task Force. It prepared a report to address the deficiencies<br />
of systems of financial regulation and offered suggestions for reform.<br />
Now, under the leadership of Dr Peter Maynard, Chair of the Public<br />
and Professional Interest Division (PPID), the PPID is carrying out Phase<br />
Two. Through a book of papers by noteworthy authors, the Task<br />
Day Time Sponsored by Title Location Page<br />
Monday 0930 – 1230 Public Law Section Beyond the tipping point: is mankind<br />
populating itself into extinction?<br />
Monday 0930 – 1230 Anti-Money Laundering<br />
Legislation Implementation<br />
Working Group/<br />
Professional Ethics<br />
Committee<br />
Tuesday 0930 – 1230 Human Rights Law<br />
Committee/Indigenous<br />
Peoples<br />
Tuesday 1430 – 1730 Anti-Corruption<br />
Committee<br />
Should professional ethics regulate<br />
money laundering by lawyers?<br />
The dispossessed: an examination of<br />
groups on the edge of society, their<br />
rights, legal challenges, successes and<br />
failures<br />
2012 global update on anti-corruption<br />
legislation and enforcement<br />
Wicklow Meeting Room<br />
3, Level 2<br />
Liffey Meeting Room 5,<br />
Level 1<br />
Liffey Meeting Room 4,<br />
Level 1<br />
70<br />
74<br />
Ecocem Room, Level 2 92<br />
Tuesday 1430 – 1730 War Crimes Pillage: the corporate war crime? Wicklow Meeting Room<br />
2, Level 2<br />
Wednesday 0930 – 1230 Banking Law/Corporate<br />
Social Responsibility<br />
Wednesday 0930 – 1230 Anti-Corruption<br />
Committee<br />
Wednesday 1430 – 1730 Human Rights Law<br />
Committee<br />
Wednesday 1430 – 1730 Anti-Corruption<br />
Committee<br />
Thursday 0930 – 1230 African Regional Forum/<br />
Corporate Social<br />
Responsibility<br />
Thursday 0930 – 1230 PPID/Pro Bono and Access<br />
to Justice<br />
Force will examine the role that the law and legal profession can play,<br />
and the impact they may have, in confronting the negative social<br />
effects of the GFC upon those living in or being driven into poverty.<br />
When economic hardships intensify, those living in poverty suffer<br />
immediately and the most. With no buffer to protect them, the<br />
poor risk losing what little they have, including shelter and food.<br />
The Global Financial Crisis has taken even the most basic work away<br />
from the poor and has driven others into poverty. Further disabled by<br />
poverty, the poor have no ready means of recovery.<br />
Phase Two will report on wider social and legal problems that have<br />
resulted from, or been highlighted by, the GFC. It will look for<br />
solutions through suggesting changes that can be made to the legal<br />
arrangements and frameworks. The Task Force will aim to define<br />
social/legal policy that would serve to improve the circumstances<br />
of people’s lives and avoid both foreseeable and unforeseen<br />
consequences in times of financial crisis.<br />
The following are the President Priority Sessions that will be held over<br />
the next five days:<br />
CSR, the financial industry and project<br />
financing<br />
Fair and equitable treatment: the<br />
issue of corruption in international<br />
investment arbitrations<br />
Public and private use of human rights:<br />
how can advocacy of human rights<br />
best be achieved in both spheres?<br />
The role of financial institutions in the<br />
fight against corruption – can we bank<br />
on them?<br />
CSR in Africa – effective tool or<br />
convenient escape?<br />
PPID Showcase: Lawyers against<br />
poverty<br />
Conference Room 3,<br />
Level 1<br />
Liffey Meeting Room 2,<br />
Level 1<br />
Wicklow Meeting Room<br />
3, Level 2<br />
90–91<br />
95<br />
101<br />
101–<br />
102<br />
109–<br />
110<br />
Ecocem Room, Level 2 113<br />
Ecocem Room, Level 2 115<br />
Liffey Hall 1, Level 1 57<br />
For further information on Phase Two of the IBA Global Financial Crisis Project and the members of the Task Force, please visit the IBA website at<br />
www.int-bar.org/Conferences/Dublin2012/info_14.cfm<br />
The IBA Global Financial Crisis Project<br />
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