Anticipating Dissension: When Legal Frameworks, U.S. Commerce and Foreign Markets Intersect
January 27, 2012
8 a.m.-5 p.m.
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
The extent to which a business has an international component varies to great degrees, but no business can deny that the global forces affect, at least in some way, its practices. Even businesses that espouse a "local" philosophy are a response to the fact that we now, for better or worse, exist in a global marketplace.
While forces like technology have facilitated -- and, indeed, may be responsible for -- this growth in business, they have also generated a new series complications that did not exist in decades past. This year, the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation and the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology will host a symposium that addresses the ways that governments, international organizations, businesses, and lawyers have proactively identified these relatively new problems in an attempt to mitigate -- or eliminate altogether -- their negative effects. The symposium will take place on January 27, 2012 and is called "Anticipating Dissension: When Legal Frameworks, US Commerce and Foreign Markets Intersect."
The symposium's panels will address issues like arbitration agreements, choice of law agreements, intergovernmental IP laws, commonly used trade terms, and franchising, all as means of limiting discord within the global marketplace. Speakers include noted legal and business scholars. Also, in an effort to highlight how international forces concern regional economies, practitioners from the southeast will also participate.
"Anticipating Dissension" will be of interest to those students, lawyers, and businesspeople whose work involves international business trade and intellectual property rights. With a focus on arbitration, it is particularly useful to those students and practitioners interested in dispute resolution outside of judicial institutions.
Professor Nicholas Didow of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill will give the keynote address.
