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  Welcome and Key Speech   Loïc Cadiet Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is a Professor at the Sorbonne Law School (University Paris I), where he teaches General Theory of Litigation, Judicial Systems, Civil Procedure and ADR. Loïc Cadiet is the President of the International Association of Procedural Law and the co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Procedural Law. http://www.univ-paris1.fr/recherche/page-perso/page?page=presentation&uid=cadiet   Marcel Storme  Graduated from Gent in 1952, receiving a licence in Economy in 1955 and an Honorary Doctorate from Curie in Lublin (1994). He has been a Barrister since 1952 and he was a Professor at Antwerp (1958-91); Gent (1961-95, Dean 1982-84), and Queen Mary College (1985-86), Vlaamse Leergangen, Leuven (1986-87), Chair, Leverhulme, London (1991-92). He has been a visitor at Beijing (1988), Tokyo (2001), Kyoto (2004), UCL (2005), and editor Procedural Reporter (1983-2005), Tydshcrift Prvaatrecht (1964-), European Private LR (1992-), and has published widely in the field of procedural law. He was IAPL Secretary General 1983-95 and President 1995-2007.  www.storme-law.be/storme.htm   Michail Treushnikov http://www.law.msu.ru/node/7692   Peter Gilles ist ein deutscher Rechtswissenschaftler und emeritierter Professor der Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Dispute Resolution in Different Societies: formal and informal procedures   Oscar G Chase,  Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; Co-Faculty Director, Institute of Judicial Administration; Vice-President, IAPL. A graduate of NYU and Yale Law School, Chase has written on comparative procedure, law and culture, and American civil procedure, recently authoring or co-authoring Law, Culture, and Ritual: Disputing Processes in Cross-Cultural Context; Civil Litigation in Comparative Context; and Civil Litigation in New York, 5th Ed. He serves on the Civil Advisory Committee of the Federal District Court, E.D.N.Y. and the Civil Practice Law  and Rules Committee of the New York State Bar Association, and is a member of the American Law Institute.  http://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/profile.cfm?personID=19828   Prof. Vincenzo Varano Vincenzo Varano is professor of comparative law at theUniversityofFlorence, where he served as Dean of the Law Faculty and Director of the Department of comparative and criminal law, and a member of the Global Faculty at NYU. Vincenzo Varano published extensively in the field of comparative civil procedure and judicial organization. He is co-author of Civil Litigation in Comparative Context, 2007.     Dr. Alessandro Simoni Alessandro Simoni is professor of comparative law at theUniversityofFlorence. His research interests and teaching activity are primarily focused on legal anthropology and the interaction between state institutions and autonomous social groups. He acted as consultant and adviser for international organizations in several non-Western contexts. He published extensively on the condition of Romani communities.    Neil H Andrews MA, BCL (Oxon), is Director of Studies in Law, and Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, and is also a qualified barrister. He specializes in English Civil Procedure, Transnational Civil Procedure, Obligations, Equity and Roman Law. He has written widely on the subject of procedure, including authoring or co-authoring English Civil Procedure: Fundamentals of the New Civil Justice, The Future of Transnational Litigation, and Commercial Arbitration (3 ed). www.law.cam.ac.uk/staff/view_staff.php?profile=nha1000   Prof. Carrie Menkel-Meadow http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/facinfo/tab_faculty.cfm?Status=Faculty&ID=288   Prof. Jerome Cohen http://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/profile.cfm?personID=19840   Prof. Nataliya Bocharova   Prof. Tsisana Shamlikashvili Founder and Head of the Center for Mediation and Law. She is  Executive director for the United Mediation Services at the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs; Panel mediator at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation; CEDR-accredited mediator; JAMS fellow; Certified mediator for water diplomacy cases; Chair of the Subcommittee on ADR and mediation in the Russian Association of Lawyers; Regional mediator in World Bank Group Office of Mediation Services (MEF STC); Member of the Association of Integrated Mediation; Board Member of the European Mediation Network Initiative (EMNI); Council Member of Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution of Pepperdine University School of Law (USA); Editor-in-chief, Mediacia i pravo (“Mediation and Law”) magazine. She has More than 100 cases resolved by mediation in a wide range of spheres, including commercial mediation in corporative relations including banking, construction, healthcare, and insurance industries, as well as family business mediation. Prof. K. B. Agrawal Director of the Indian Institute of Comparative Law. Former, Dean Faculty of Law, University of Rajasthan, India. Goals of Civil Justice   Prof. Alan Uzelac   Professor of Law at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. His main areas of interest include comparative civil procedure, evidence and alternative dispute resolution.  He has been engaged as the member of the Council of the International Association of Procedural Law; founding member of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) in Strasbourg and delegate in the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration.  In addition to a large number of published or edited publications, Professor Uzelac also participated in the drafting of a number of legislative acts. He was educated at Universities at Zagreb, Mainz and Harvard. http://alanuzelac.from.hr     Prof. Richard Marcus Holds the Horace O. Coil Chair in Litigation at U. California’s Hastings College of the Law. Previously, he was a litigation partner in a San Francisco firm and then taught at the U. Illinois. He is co-author of leading American casebooks on Complex Litigation and Civil Procedure, and author of the discovery volumes of the leading U.S treatise Federal Practice and Procedure. Since 1996, he has served as Associate Reporter of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules of the U.S. Judicial Conference, and he was a primary drafter of the rules for electronic discovery adopted for U.S. federal courts in 2006, and revisions of the U.S. federal court class action rule in 2003. http://www.uchastings.edu/faculty-administration/faculty/marcus/index.html   Prof. Remco van Rhee Was appointed to the Chair of European Legal History and Comparative Civil Procedure at Maastricht University (NL) in 1998.Van Rhee is director of the research programme “Foundations and Principles of Civil Procedure in Europe” of the Ius Commune Research School. He is general editor of the Civil Procedure Casebook of the Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe (www.casebooks.eu/procedural) and a member of the board of editors of the series Studies in the History of Private Law. Van Rhee is co-director of an annual course on Public and Private Justice organized at the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik (Croatia).  http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/web/Faculteiten   Prof. Teresa Wambier  Post Doctoral Degree, LL.D., LL.M. by Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Professor of Civil Procedural Law – Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. President of the IBDP. Member of the International Bar Association; of the International Association of Procedural Law; of the Instituto Panamericano de Derecho Procesal; of the Instituto Ibero-Americano de Direito Processual; of the Brazilian Institute of Family Law; of the Lawyer’s Association of São Paulo; of the Lawyer’s Institute of São Paulo; of the Lawyer’s Institute of Paraná; of the Paraná Academy.   Prof. Elisabetta Silvestri  Associate professor of law at the University of Pavia, Italy. Prof. Silvestri was educated at the University of Pavia Faculty of Law and Cornell Law School; as a visiting scholar, she attended Yale Law School and the London School of Economics. Her main areas of interest include Italian civil procedure, comparative civil procedure, judicial organization and alternative dispute resolution. Author of many published essays, Prof. Silvestri is director of the Center for Conflict Resolution at the University of Pavia and co-director of the annual seminar Public and Private Justice held at IUC Dubrovnik, Croatia. She is a member of the International Association of Procedural Law and a member of the editorial board of the IAPC Journal; she is also a member of the editorial board of Вестник  Гражданского Процесса (‘Journal of Civil Process’). http://dsg.unipv.it/cv/silvestr.htm   Ass. Prof. Fu Yulin   Mr. Peter Chan  Mr. Chan is a solicitor in Hong Kong and England.  Before entering academia, he was a litigation lawyer at a leading international firm in Hong Kong.  His main research interests are comparative civil procedure and Chinese legal history.  Mr. Chan currently teaches the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws programme at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong.   Prof. Inge Lorange Backer http://www.jus.uio.no/ior/personer/vit/ingelba/index   Prof. Miklos Kengyel Prof. Miklós Kengyel is full professor (1994), chair of the Department of Civil Procedure Law and Legal Sociology at the University of Pécs and part time professor on Comparative Civil Procedure at the Andrássy Gyula German Speaking University in Budapest (2003). Former Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of Pécs (1993-1999), and former Rector of the Andrássy University (2003-2007). His main fields of research  include European, international and comparative civil procedure, evidence and legal culture. He has been engaged as the member of the Council of the International Association of Procedural Law. In 2010 he was the Conference Chair of the  IAPL-Colloquium in Pécs.      Prof. Paul Oberhammer http://zvr.univie.ac.at/mitarbeiterinnen/oberhammer-paul/   Ass. Prof. Dmitry Nohrin Graduated fromKhabarovsk StateAcademyof Economics and Law in 2003. During the period of 2003-2006 was taking a post-graduate course in Lomonosov Moscow State University, after completion of which and successful defence of a dissertation on compulsory mechanisms in civil process was conferred a degree of Candidate in Legal Science. Later worked as a consultant in the Law Department of the Federal Assembly’ State Duma. At the present time, holds a position of the Advisor to the vice-chairman of the Constitutional Court of theRussian Federation Civil Procedural Systems: pro and contra   Prof. Dmitry Maleshin Vice-Dean and Associate Professor of Civil Procedural Law at Moscow State Lomonosov University. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Yale (2004) and Harvard (2008) law schools. He is a member of the Council of IAPL and ILA Civil Litigation Committee.   He has written on Russian civil procedure, comparative civil procedure, law and culture. http://www.law.msu.ru/node/7344   Prof. Viktoria Harsagi Dr. Viktória Harsági PhD is associate professor, the chair of the Department of Civil Procedure Law at the PázmányPéterCatholicUniversityin Budapestsince 2006, lecturer at the AndrássyGyulaGermanSpeakingUniversityin Budapest. Prior to that, she was assistant at the Universityof Miskolc(1999-2004) and assistant professor at the PázmányPéterCatholicUniversity(2005-2006). As a visiting research fellow at predoctoral level she spent a full academic year at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (2002-2003, DAAD-scholarship), at postdoctoral level two months at the Universität Basel (2011, von Caemmerer scholarship). She is the member of the International Association of Procedural Law, editor of the Pázmány Law Review. Her main fields of research are the international and comparative civil procedure law, electronic justice.  www.harsagi.hu   Prof. David Bamford   Dean, Flinders University School of Law. Professor Bamford joined the Law School in 1994 after nine years as a practising lawyer in the areas of general civil litigation, workers compensation and industrial law. He remains interested in history and politics, the areas of his first degree. David has combined practice with academic work. He teaches Resolving Civil Disputes, Lawyering, Community Legal Practice and Regulating Politics. His research interests include the workings of the civil justice system, and the interaction between law and politics.  Commissioned research includes government consultancies that evaluate different aspects of the justice system.    http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/law   Prof. Margaret Woo http://www.northeastern.edu/law/academics/faculty/directory/woo.html   Teresa Celina de Arruda Alvim Wambier http://www.wambier.com.br/idioma_English/Cur_Teresa.html   Mr. Murat R. Ozsunay Murat R Özsunay, of the Istanbul and Frankfurt/M bars, is also a European & Turkish Patent & TM Attorney (epi, TPE), and ICC arbitrator based in Istanbul. He has an international practice and teaches contracts, civil procedure, arbitration, and ECHR litigation at Goethe and Bahcesehir Universities, Istanbul Bar Apprentice Training Center, Georgia State U. A graduate of Istanbul U. Law (1985), Academy of American & Int’l Law (Dallas) and U.T. Austin (M.C.J.), he worked at the Registry of the ECHR in Strasbourg. He publishes in English and Turkish on arbitration, civil procedure and IP. He is a member of the IBA, AIPPI, ICC, IACL, D-TR JurV, and Austrian Arbitration Association. www.ozsunay.com, www.ozsunay.av.tr   Mr. Serban Vacarelu (B.A., University of Oradea (Romania); LL.B., Babes-Bolyai University (Romania); LL.M., Louisiana State University). Mr. Vacarelu is an associate researcher and a Ph.D. candidate at Maastricht University, Faculty of Law (The Netherlands). Prior to joining Maastricht University, Mr. Vacarelu served as a judicial law clerk and research attorney for the Louisiana Supreme Court, engaged in private practice with Forrester, Jordan & Dick L.L.C., Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and served as a research assistant for Professor Alain Levasseur at Louisiana State University. Mr. Vacarelu teaches serveral courses at Maastricht University and has been a Visiting Professor at Wayne State University. He also taught at the China-EU School of Law, Changping, China. His research interests are primarily in the field of civil procedure and comparative law. Mr. Vacarelu is admitted to practice in Romania and Louisiana. http://www.law.duke.edu/internat/europe/faculty   Professor André Boraine Dean of the Faculty of Law University of Pretoria (South Africa). He formerly served as the  Head of the Department of Procedural Law, and he also served as Deputy-Dean of the Faculty from 1999 to 2006.  He is also a co-director of the Centre for Advanced Corporate and Insolvency Law based at the UP Faculty of Law. His research interests include insolvency law, with a particular focus on international insolvency, civil procedural law and aspects of property law. In 2011, the World Bank has commissioned him as  consultant on South African insolvency law concerning a diagnostic analysis of the legal framework in place in South Africa for regulating insolvency law and creditor/debtor rights.  [email protected] www.up.ac.za   D.E. Van Loggerenberg  Extraordinary professor of Law, University of Pretoria. Member of the Pretoria Society of Advocates since 1 February 1990.    Chiara Besso Full professor for Civil Procedure at the University of Turin. She has taught at the Center of Trasnational Legal Studies (London), and has been visiting fellow at the Italian Academy at Columbia University, at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of London, and at the University College of Oxford. An expert in the law of evidence, transnational dimensions of civil procedure, and alternatives to adjudication, Professor Besso has written and lectured in these fields.    Javier López Sánchez Vice-Dean and Full Professor of Procedural Law at the University of Zaragoza. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Bolonia Law School (2005) and Houston Law School (2009). He has writen on Spanish civil procedure, Bankruptcy procedures in Spain and class actions in the USA and group litigation in Spain.    Professor Thomas Jeffrey Associate Dean for International Programs, Professor of Law, and the Daniel L. Brenner Faculty Scholar at University of Missouri -Kansas City School of Law. He is a two-time Fulbright Fellow to Russia (2010) and China (1999-2000), and was a Bigelow Teaching Fellow at University of Chicago early in his career (1991-92). His research focuseson the interaction between law and culture, the rule of law, and insurance law. His work has been presented and published in the U.S., Europe, China, India, Russia, Thailand and Turkey. He earned his J.D. degree from University of California – Berkeley in 1986, and served as a law clerk to a U.S. Federal District Court and worked as a lawyer for five years prior to joining the UMKC law faculty. Cultural Dimension of Group Litigation   Prof. Janet Walker Professor, former Associate Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School (DPhil (Oxon), Ontario Bar) and member of the IAPL Presidium, teaches Conflict of Laws and International Arbitration at Osgoode, and she has taught at Monash, Haifa, Toronto, NYU, NUS, Oxford and for ten years in Tunis. Her books include Castel and Walker: Canadian Conflict of Laws, The Civil Litigation Process, Common Law, and Civil Law and the Future of Categories (with Oscar Chase).She serves as an international arbitrator, an advisor to the Federal Courts Rules Committee, and on task forces on multijurisdictional class actions for the ULCC, ILA, IBA and ABA. www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty/Walker_Janet.html   Prof. Jasminka Kalajdzic Professor Kalajdzic practiced civil litigation for 12 years prior to joining the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law full-time in July 2009.  Her research interests include the empirical and critical analysis of class action litigation, and access to justice.  In July 2011, she was appointed to the Class Proceedings Committee for a three-year term   Prof. Rachael Mulheron Professor at the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London. Her principal fields of academic research concern class actions jurisprudence and tort law. In 2009, she was appointed as a member of the Civil Justice Council of England and Wales. Prior to her academic career, Rachael practised as a litigation solicitor in Brisbane, Australia   Prof. Vince Morabito Professor in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University. He has been researching, since 1994, various aspects of access to justice in Australia, Canada, England and the US including class actions, representative proceedings, legal costs, contingency fees, standing to sue, commercial litigation funders and the rights of crime victims to seek reparation directly from their offenders. His research papers have been published in refereed law journals in Australia, Canada, the US, the UK, Singapore and New Zealand. He is currently conducting the first empirical study of Australia’s class action regimes http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/blt/staff/v-morabito.html   Prof. Elisabetta Silvestri Associate professor of law at the University of Pavia, Italy. Prof. Silvestri was educated at the University of Pavia Faculty of Law and Cornell Law School; as a visiting scholar, she attended Yale Law School and the London School of Economics. Her main areas of interest include Italian civil procedure, comparative civil procedure, judicial organization and alternative dispute resolution. Author of many published essays, Prof. Silvestri is director of the Center for Conflict Resolution at the University of Pavia and co-director of the annual seminar Public and Private Justice held at IUC Dubrovnik, Croatia. She is a member of the International Association of Procedural Law and a member of the editorial board of the IAPC Journal; she is also a member of the editorial board of Вестник  Гражданского Процесса (‘Journal of Civil Process’). http://dsg.unipv.it/cv/silvestr.htm   Ms. Helene van Lith Legal consultant in internationallitigation based in Paris and an expert in private international law. She ledthe ‘The Dutch Collective Settlements Act and Private International Law’research project for the Dutch Ministry of Justice with Erasmus UniversityRotterdam, where she was previously a Senior Lecturer and Assistant Professorof Private International Law & Comparative Law.  She holds a PhD on International Jurisdictionin Commercial Litigation from Erasmus University and has published numerousarticles on cross border (group) litigation. She was visiting scholar atMelbourne Law School, the Max Plank Institute for Comparative and InternationalPrivate Law in Hamburg and the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne.   Prof.  Per Henrik Lindbloom Professor Emeritus in civil and criminal procedure and former dean of the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, Sweden. E-mail:[email protected]  http://www.jur.uu.se/PersonalInfo.aspx?UserId=719   Prof. Ada Pellegrini Grinover  Professor of Procedural Criminal Law, U. São Paulo; Doctor Honoris Causa, U. Milan; retired State Attorney; Chair, Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law; and Vice-Chair, IAPL and Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law. She is an Academic, Brazilian Academy of Legal Culture and the Paulista Law Academy; an Honorary Academic, Real Jurisprudence and Legislation, Madrid, a member of the Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé, the Association International de Droit Pénal, and the Associazione Italiana fra gli studiosi del processo civile (ad honorem). She has collaborated with many Italian Universities and participated and organized several Congresses, and published widely in Brazil, Europe and Latin America, including 25 books. She has participated in revising the Criminal and Civil Proceedure Codes and the Small Claim’s Courts Bill, and proposals for Constitutional Review. She was awarded the Labor Judicial Merit Order and the award in 1998 for the best yearly monograph on Consumer’s Rights   Ass. Prof. Dmitry Tumanov Assistant Professor, O.E. Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy. Dmitry’s area of expertise includes a number of issues related to gaps in the civil procedural law and the optimal ways to overcome them; identification of the necessary limits for judicial interference into public relations; and defence of a group of persons . He has published numerous papers on the aforementioned issues, as well as a monograph on gaps in the Russian civil procedural law Dmitry Magonya  Dmitry is a Managing Partner in ART DE LEX since 2005. He graduated from the Krasnoyarsk State University in 1999. Dmitry has a comprehensive experience in legal advising on complex multijurisdictional transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing.Before Dmitry leaded ART DE LEX he was the Director of Corporate Finance Department and Vice-President of ATON Group of companies.Dmitry has a great recognition in outstanding Pro Bono activity. He is a member of the International Bar Association.  Dr. Stefaan Voet Dr. Voet works at the Institute for Procedural Law at the University of Ghent (Belgium). His fields of research are complex litigation, and litigation costs. He is a member of the Global Class Actions Exchange Network. He was a visiting scholar at the Law Center of the University of Houston (2009, 2010 and 2012) and SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas (2012). He regularly speaks at national and international conferences, and wrote about 40 national and international articles in the field of civil procedure. Dr. Voet is also an attorney at the bar of Bruges. Vicki Waye foundation Professor of Law at the University of South Australia.  Professor Waye has over 20 years experience of teaching and research at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her teaching expertise includes Arbitration Law (both domestic and international), Evidence and Procedure, Corporate Law, Contract Law and Wine Law.  Professor Waye’s research interests are rich and varied. Reflecting the globalised state of commerce and the legal profession, Vicki’s research incorporates international and comparative elements, and spans subject matter such as multilateral and bilateral treaties affecting the wine industry, comparisons between the Australian and United States’ systems of civil and criminal procedure, matters affecting access to justice in England, Australia and the United States, including systems of collective redress.    Edward F. Sherman professor of law and former dean of Tulane Law School.  A graduate of Georgetown University (A.B., 1959) and Harvard Law School (J.D., 1962; S.J.D., 1981), he clerked for a federal judge and practiced law for five years before entering teaching.  He is co-author of widely-used casebooks on Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, and Alternative Dispute Resolution and has published a large number of articles in these fields.  He has served as counsel, consultant, or expert witness in a large number of class actions.  Harmonisation of Civil Procedure in Eurasia   Prof. Vladimir Yarkov http://www.usla.ru/ch.php?mid=2560&cid=13&obid=2635     Prof. Vechiaslav Komarov http://www.nuau.org/academ/344-komarov-vjacheslav-vasilevich-prorektor-po.html   Prof. Viktor Blazheev http://www.msal.ru/academy/rektorat.html   Prof. Zauresh Baimoldina   Prof. Alec Galic    Prof. Ivan Koliadko    Prof. Azamat Saliev Commercial Arbitration in Eurasia   Mr. Ivan Marisin Moscow Managing Partner, Quinn Emanuel Trial Lawyers Prof. Eugeny Sukhanov http://www.law.msu.ru/node/7608   Prof. Nikolai Selivon   Prof. Maidan Suleimenov Suleimenov Maidan Kuntuarovich, Doctor of juridical sciences, Professor, Member of the National Academy of Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, specializes in the area of civil law, international private law and commercial arbitration.  Director of the Research Institute of Private Law within the Caspian Public University, Chairman of the Kazakhstani International Arbitration.  Author of 470 scientific research works (including more than 40 monographs), among these more than 50 works are related to commercial arbitration.  Drafter of more than 70 laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan, including the Constitution, the Civil Code and all the laws related to commercial arbitration.  Acted as an expert or an arbitrator in a number of international arbitration proceedings in Paris, London, Stockholm, Washington DC, and Moscow.     Prof. Valery Musin   Edward F. Sherman professor of law and former dean of Tulane Law School.  A graduate of Georgetown University (A.B., 1959) and Harvard Law School (J.D., 1962; S.J.D., 1981), he clerked for a federal judge and practiced law for five years before entering teaching.  He is co-author of widely-used casebooks on Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, and Alternative Dispute Resolution and has published a large number of articles in these fields.  He has served as counsel, consultant, or expert witness in a large number of class actions.

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