Special Event Co-sponsored by the The School of American Law and GESSEL.
How Law Jumps the Fences between Countries and Breaks Its Legs?´
Time: Monday, 13 October 2008, 4:00 PM.
Venue: Kraków, ul. Bracka 12, Reception Rooms of the Larisch Palace.
RSVP: Friday, 11 October 2008, 5:00 PM, okspo at uj.edu.pl
YUANSHI BU
The Reception of Foreign Law in China – Corporate Governance Perspective
BARTŁOMIEJ ŚWIETLIK
Borders in a Borderless World
AGATA WACŁAWIK-WEJMAN
The Capital Markets Impact on Corporate Law: The Shareholder Primacy Norm
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Professor Dr. Yuanshi Bu is the Director of the Chair of East Asia Law at Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany. She received her B.A. from the Tongji University, Shanghai in German language and literature studies and computer sciences. She holds LL.M. degrees from the Universities of Göttingen, Nanjing and Harvard Law School. Her Ph.D. dissertation in law at the University of Bern, Switzerland treated on fair use of copyright in the internet. Professor Bu teaches and does research on intellectual property law and comparative business law. She has worked in German and Swiss law firms. She passed the attorney exam in China, and holds membership in the New York bar.
Bartłomiej Świetlik is the Head of the Chinese Desk at GESSEL. With GESSEL since 2002. Lawyer, LLB with honors from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England (1997) with a gap year at the Warsaw University. Translator of legal texts and documents, and also of art historical materials. At the Chinese Desk Bartłomiej Świetlik is responsible for coordination of contacts with clients and cooperating entities.
Agata Wacławik-Wejman specializes in law and finance, governance, capital markets and corporate governance. She served as the management board member of KDPW S.A., the Polish central securities depository and as legal counsel at the World Bank in Washington D.C. Her academic work experience includes Harvard Law School and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Since 2005, she is an expert of the European Commission’s Clearing and Settlement Legal Certainty Group. Agata Wacławik-Wejman graduated from Harvard Law School and the Jagiellonian University; she also studied at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She is a member of the New York Bar.
Professor Bu will also speak in Warsaw on Friday, 10 October 2008. Read more here.
