INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
THE HAGUE SECURITIES CONVENTION

   
     
 
Venue: National Center of Sciences
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan		    
  Tel: +81-3-4212-2000 (Exchange)    
  http://www.nii.ac.jp/map/hitotsubashi-j.html    
  http://www.nii.ac.jp/dsrtokyo/kkrtokyo.html      
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2004    
Language: English (Simultaneous Translation from English into Japanese)    
       
  Please check the following Programme and download speakers' papers.
For more details, please conatct at haya@rikkyo.ac.jp		    

 
     
 
Speakers & Coordinators:
 
  Karl Kreuzer
(Wurzburg Univ.)		 Hideki Kanda
(Univ. of Tokyo)		  
  Guy Morton
(Lawyer)		 Yoshiaki Sakurada
(Kyoto Univ.)  		  
  James Rogers
(Boston College) 		Masato Dogauchi
(Waseda Univ.) 		  
  Harry Sigman
(Lawyer) 		 Yoshiaki Nomura
(Osaka Univ.) 		  
  Ulrik Bang-Pedersen
(Copenhagen Univ.)		 Tetsuo Morishita
(Sophia Univ.)		  
  Richard Potok
(New South Wales Univ.)  		 Akihiro Wani
(Lawyer)		  
  Hans van Loon
(The Hague Conference on PIL)  		 Yoshihisa Hayakawa
(Rikkyo Univ.) 		  
  Christophe Bernasconi
(The Hague Conference on PIL)		    
     
     
     
Programme
(for printable version click here)

Opening Remarks
9.30- 9.50 Takehisa Awaji, Rikkyo Law School    
       
  Takeo Akiba, Ministry of Foreign Affairs    
       
  Junko Torii, Chair of the Legislative Council of the MOJ    
       

 

Session One
Backgrounds of the Project for the Hague Securities Convention
9.50-11.10 Yoshiaki Sakurada (Coordinator)    
             
  Karl Kreuzer    
    "Innovative features of the Hague Securities Convention"    

(Kreuzer.pdf)
  Richard Potok    
    "The Hague Securities Convention ? closer and closer to a reality"    

(Potok.pdf)
  Hans van Loon    
    "A Challenge for theHague Conference"    

(van-Loon.pdf)
  Christophe Bernasconi    
    "Discussions in the Hague Conference and the Basic
Sturucture of the Convention"		    

(Bernasconi.ppt)
             


Coffee Break
11.10-11.30

 

Session Two
Basic Structures and Key Elements of the Convention
11.30-13.00 (including Q&A for the morning sessions)    
             
  Yoshiaki Nomura (Coordinator)    
             
  Hideaki Kanda    
    "Scope of the Convention"    

(Kanda.pdf)
  Yoshihisa Hayakawa    
    "Specific Features of the Conflict of Laws Rules"    

(Hayakawa.pdf)
  Guy Morton    
    "Change of the Applicable Law and Transition Provisions"    

(Morton.pdf)

(Morton.ppt)


Lunch
13.00-14.30

Session Three
Various Perspective on the Convention
14.30-16.10 Tetsuo Morishita (Coordinator)    
             
  James Rogers    
    "Property and Contract: Toward a Clearer Understanding"    

(Rogers_revised.pdf)

(Rogers.ppt)
  Ulrik Bang-Pedersen    
    "The impact on the European Community States"    

(Bang-Pedersen1.pdf)
  Masato Dogauchi    
    "The Internet Transactions and Choice of Law"    

(Dogauchi.pdf)
 
  Harry Sigman    
    "The Convention from the Viewpoint of the Collateral-Taker"    

(Sigman.pdf)
  Akihiro Wani    
    "The Convention from the Viewpoint of the Practice"    

(Wani.pdf)

Coffee Break
16.10-16.30

Session Four
Remaining Problems and Future
16.30-17.50 (Panel Discussion)    
             
  Hideki Kanda (Coordinator)    
             
  Ulrik Bang-Pedersen    
    "Investor Protection in Intermediary Insolvency"    

(Bang-Pedersen2.pdf)
  Guy Morton    
    "A New Project of the UNIDROIT"    

(Morton2.ppt)
  Karl Kreuzer    
             
  Richard Potok    
           
  Hans van Loon    
             
  Christophe Bernasconi    
             
  James Rogers    
             
  Harry Sigman    
             

 

Closing Remarks
17.50-18.00 Karl Kreuzer    
       


Buffet-Dinner hosted by Mitsui, Yasuda & Wani at Gakushi Kaikan
18.30-20.30

 

About the Hague Securities Convention

 

For more details, please check the website of the Hague Conference on PIL.
http://hcch.e-vision.nl/index_en.php?act=conventions.text&cid=72