Programme
Programme | |||
Thursday, 8th April 2010 | |||
15:00 | Registration | ||
16:00 | Welcome | ||
16:30 | Opening lecture: "Financial consequences of divorce: England v the rest of Europe" | ||
17:30 | Reception | ||
Friday, 9th April 2010 | Saturday, 10th April 2010 | ||
08:30 | Registration | ||
Matrimonial property law in Europe | Round table: Unification of private international family law Chair: Roger Bamber, Solicitor | ||
09:00 | Matrimonial property regimes in Europe | 09:00 | Panellists to include: Ulf Bergquist, Lawyer, Stockholm |
09:30 | Initial results of the work of the CEFL in the field of property relations between spouses | 10:15 | Discussion |
10:00 | Discussion | ||
10:30 | Break | 10:45 | Break |
Family contracts: issues of autonomy | Unification of private international succession law | ||
11:00 | Contracting in family law: A European Perspective | 11:15 | The Europeanisation of cross-border succession |
11:30 | Matrimonial property agreements: the work of the Law Commission for England and Wales | 11:45 | Discussion |
12:00 | Cohabitant obligations: Contract vs Status | 12:00 | Closing remarks Jo Miles and Jens M. Scherpe, University of Cambridge |
12:30 | Discussion | 12:30 | End of Conference and lunch |
13:00 | Lunch | Guided walking tours in historic Cambridge city centre, commencing at 2.00pm and ending c. 4:00pm | |
Parallel working groups: Presentations by early career researchers | |||
14:00 | Chair: Bente Braat, European Court of Human Rights Chair:Tone Sverdrup, University of Oslo Chair: Dieter Martiny, University of Frankfurt/Oder, Hamburg | ||
15:30 | Break | ||
16:00 | Continuation of working groups | ||
17:30 | Session ends | ||
19:00 | Dinner: Hall of Gonville and Caius College | ||
For further information, please contact the conference organisers at cefl2010@law.cam.ac.uk
Generously supported by:
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The John Hall Fund, University of Cambridge
| The Yorke Fund, University of Cambridge
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