Timetable

Friday, April 8

Registration & Continental Breakfast - 7:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m.

Welcome – Toni Massaro, Dean, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law - 8:30 a.m.

PANEL 1: Issues in Comparative Intellectual Property Law - 8:45 a.m.-10:45 a.m.

Speakers:
Laurence Helfer, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
Coenraad Visser, Professor of Law, University of South Africa

Moderator:
Graeme W. Austin, J. Byron McCormick Professor of Law, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law


PANEL 2 – Issues in Comparative Public Law - 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Speakers:
Antonio Gidi, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
Silvia Fabiana Faerman, Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Southwestern University School of Law

Moderator:
Ana Maria Merico-Stephens, Associate Professor of Law, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law


Luncheon “Security, Justice and Liberty in a Free Society” - 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Sir Nicholas Lyell, former Attorney General and Member of Parliament, United Kingdom


PANEL 3 – Issues in Comparative Commercial Law - 2:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m.

Speakers:
Pilar Perales, Professor of Law, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Sir Roy Goode, Emeritus Professor of Law, St. John’s College, Oxford University
Rafael Illescas, Professor of Commercial Law, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Moderator:
Dr. Boris Kozolchyk, Evo DeConcini Professor of Law, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law;
President and Director, National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade


Saturday, April 9

Continental Breakfast - 8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.

PANEL 4 – Issues in Comparative International Trade Law - 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

Speakers:
Raj Bhala, Raymond F. Rice Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law
Dr. Pablo Zapatero, Assistant Professor of Law, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Moderator:
David A. Gantz, Samuel M. Fegtly Professor of Law,
University of Arizona Rogers College of Law; Associate Director,
National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade

Wrap-Up Session -11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.