CFL Webinar - Dissent in Insurance Law (6th July)
Published: 14 May 2021
We are pleased to host "Dissent in Insurance Law", a webinar to be held on Tuesday, 6th July 2020, at 9 -16.30 BST, with a keynote address by the Honourable Justice Sarah Derrington, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, and ten prominent women scholars in Insurance Law.
The Corporate and Financial Law Research Group at the School of Law, University of Glasgow, is pleased to host Dissent in Insurance Law, a webinar to be held on:
Tuesday, 6th July 2021
at 9.30 - 16.15 BST.
Flyer details UofG Law BILA Dissent in Insurance Law event
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Upon registration, a confirmation email will be sent with the details to access the webinar.
Inspired by the centenary project of the School of Law which celebrates the first 100 years of women at the School, and by the late Honourable Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the US Supreme Court who was famous for her strong dissenting views, this event draws together globally leading women insurance scholars to speak on issues of dissent in Insurance Law.
The papers from this event will be published in a Special Issue of the British Insurance Law Association's Journal on Dissent in Insurance Law, edited by Dr Livashnee Naidoo and Professor James Davey (forthcoming 2022).
Programme
09.30: Welcome by Professor Iain MacNeil, Head of the Corporate and Financial Law Research Group
09.45 - 10.25: Keynote Address: 'I Dissent; but why?'
The Honourable Justice Sarah Derrington, President of the Australian Law Reform Commission and Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
10.25 - 10.35: Refreshment Break
10.35 - 11.50: Panel 1
Chaired by Ms Alison Padfield QC, Insurance Law Barrister and Insurance Silk of the Year 2020
10.35 - 10.55: Dr Katie Richards, University of Bristol - Causation in Insurance Law
10.55 - 11.15: Dr Livashnee Naidoo, University of Glasgow - Cyber Risk Insurance
11.15 - 11.35: Dr Franziska Arnold-Dwyer, Queen Mary University London - Insurance and Climate Change
11.35 - 11.50: Q&A
11.50 - 12.55: Lunch break
13 - 14.40: Panel 2
Chaired by Professor Ozlem Gurses, Professor of Commercial Law, King's College London
13.00 - 13.20: Professor Caroline Van Schoubroeck, KU Leuven - Slow-Moving Motor vehicles and Compulsory Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance
13.20 - 13.40: Dr Meixian Song, University of Southampton - Contextualising First-Party Insurance from the Perspective of Insuring Defective Contractual Performance
13.40 - 14.00: Ms Marta Ostrowska, University of Zurich - The Principle of Proportionality in Insurance Law
14.00 - 14.20: Professor Katarzyna Malinowska, Kominski University - Is Artificial Intelligence Bona Fide? Reflections on the Digitalization of Insurance Contract Principles
14.20 - 14.40: Q&A
14.40 - 14.50: Refreshment Break
14.50 - 16.05: Panel 3
Chaired by Professor James Davey, Deputy President of the British Insurance Law Association and Professor of Insurance & Commercial Law, University of Southampton
14.50 - 15.10: Professor Patricia McCoy, Boston College Law School - Insurance and Discrimination: A US Perspective
15.10 - 15.30: Professor Margarida Lima Rego, NOVA School of Law - Insurance and Discrimination
15.30 - 15.50: Professor Sara Landini, University of Florence – Index-Based Insurance and Catastrophic Events
15.50 - 16.05: Q&A
16.05 - 16.15: Closing Remarks by Dr Livashnee Naidoo, University of Glasgow
Please contact federica.agostini@glasgow.ac.uk if you have any questions prior to the webinar.
SAVE THE DATE for the CCLS/BILA Joint Online Event "Keeping it legal: Future Challenges in Insurance and the Role of Law and Regulation", taking place on 30 June 2021, 14 - 17.25 BST. You can register here.
First published: 14 May 2021