17th Biennial Meeting of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law (IACCL)

Date: July 16-19, 2014
Time: 9.30-17.00

The 17th Biennial Meeting of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law (IACCL) will be held in Istanbul on July 16-19, 2014. The Meeting is being hosted by İstanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Law and is open only to its members. The organizing committee consists of Professor Anthony Duggan (University of Toronto) in his capacity as President, Professor Arcelia Quintana-Adriano (National Autonomous University of Mexico) as President-Elect and Professor Yeşim M. Atamer representing the hosting institution.

IACCL was established in 1983 at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Since then the Academy has been regularly organizing biennial conferences hosted in different universities such as University of Innsbruck (1984), Harvard Law School (1986), the University of Melbourne (1988), Oxford University (1990), the University of Stockholm (1992), Saint Louis University (1994), Bar-Ilan University (1996), Bond University (1998), the Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University (2000), Max Plank Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg (2002), the Riga Graduate School of Law (2004), the University of Texas at Austin (2006), the University of Bamberg (2008), the University of Toronto (2010), and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1983 and 2012). 

The main topic of the 17th Biennial Meeting of the IACCL is “Freedom of Contract vs. Control – The Need to Limit Party Autonomy”. In 2 ½ days the topic will be highlighted from different angles in different sessions on the concept of freedom of contract, control of contract terms, banking and payment law, international trade, private international law, arbitration, dispute resolution, secured transactions, commercial and corporate law and bankruptcy and insolvency. 

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