Symposium "Preventive Instruments of Social Governance"

Words of Welcome

Dr. Carsten Dose, FRIAS Administrative Director

and

Prof. Dr. Alexander Bruns, LL.M., University of Freiburg

14:20 - 15:00

Protection of Collective Interests in Japan: Group Litigation for Injunction

Professor Miyuki Watanabe

15:00 - 15:40

Injunctive Corporate Governance?

Professor Dr. Alexander Bruns, LL.M. (Duke Univ.)

15:40 - 16:20

Interim Measures in German and English Civil Procedure:

Preconditions and Standard of Proof

Dr. Julia Caroline Scherpe, LL.M. (Cantab)

16.50 – 17.30

17.30 – 18.10

Preventive Measures in Contract Law: Recent Debate over “Duty to Mitigate” in Japan

Professor Dr. Tomohiro Yoshimasa

Preventive Administration of Justice and Notarial Counseling

Stefan Thönissen, LL.M. (Yale)

9.00 - 9.40

9.40 - 10.20

Elements of Prevention of Conflicts and Disputes in Labour and Employment Law

Professor Dr. Sebastian Krebber, LL.M. (Georgetown)

Dispute Preventive Measures in International Investment Arbitration

10.50 – 11.30

Injunctive Relief for Patent Infringement: A New Trend in Japan?

Professor Masabumi Suzuki

11.30 – 12.10

Prevention of copyright infringements in conflicts over new technologies?

The example of the allocation of rights in Internet-Protocol-Television (IPTV) and Internet-Videorecorders in the era of convergence of transmission paths

Professor Dr. Maximilian Haedicke

12.10 – 12.50

Prevention by Procedure - Law of Evidence as a Means to Avoid Patent-Related Legal Actions

Roman Würtenberger

14.30 – 15.10

Regulation of Cross-Border Financial Transactions by Conflict of Laws

Professor Dai Yokomizo

15.10 – 15.50

Punitive Damages in European and German Private International Law

Professor Dr. Jan von Hein

16.20 – 17.00

Recent Developments in Rules on Choice of Court Agreements in Japan

Shiho Kato, LL.M. (Nagoya)