INVITATION

Dear Colleagues

On behalf of CLE Paris, I am delighted to invite you to join us in Paris, France

for our third CLE Paris Global Law Conference to be held on 5 - 7 January

2017. Paris, steeped in beauty, history and legal significance, provides us

with a truly unique atmosphere to learn, share ideas, develop business rela-

tionships and make new friends.

Lawyers, judges and law educators are now working in a globally dynamic

and technologically diverse framework. Technology is pushing courts, law-

yers, and legal services across borders and establishing new ways to com-

municate. Civil law jurisdictions are blending with common law systems; laws

and systems are converging. Traditional legal positions and views are chang-

ing. To this end, CLE Paris will consider the law and its practice in a global

environment.

We are bringing together international leaders in their legal fields to speak

with us in a format encouraging inspiration, stimulation, and conversation.

The Paris venue puts the program in touch with one of the greatest historical

civil law jurisdictions, and in a country that is determined to take a lead in

emerging global and transnational trends.

We will also continue with our law inspired, privately organised excursions. In

2017 we are visiting the French Parliament, the Supreme Court and are re-

peating our very own “Law Professors’ Tour” – a legal and historical walking

tour of Paris led by Professors Gerard Carney and Pascale Bloch.

I hope that you will accept this invitation and join us in Paris.

Kind Regards,

Jim

Professor Jim Corkery

CLE Paris Co-Chairperson

Faculty of Law

Bond University QLD 4229 Australia

jcorkery@bond.edu.au

A GREAT MEETING PLACE

The venue for the third CLE Paris conference is “Le Procope”.

It was in 1686 that Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, a gentleman from

Palermo, set up his coffee house in the rue des Fossés Saint-Germain

(present-day rue de l’Ancienne Comédie).

The world’s first literary café was born and, for over two centuries, eve-

ryone with a name, or who hoped to have one, in the world of letters,

arts and politics was a regular to the Café Le Procope. From La Fon-

taine to Voltaire, Rousseau, Beaumarchais, Balzac, Hugo, Verlaine to

mention but a few, the list of Procope’s regulars varies little from that of

the great names of French literature.

In the 18th century, it was a seedbed for liberal ideas and the history of

the Encyclopædia is intimately linked to that of Procope where Diderot,

d’Alembert and Benjamin Franklin could be seen. During the Revolution,

Robespierre, Danton and Marat met here and Lieutenant Bonaparte left

his hat here as a pledge.

Today, the Procope is emerging from the great shadows of its history.

Symbol of the past, Voltaire’s table testifies to permanency, while pre-

paring the way for new pages of glory.

We are delighted to be having our third conference at this historical loca-

tion and hope you will join us.

A PROGRAM WITH FLAIR

Day 1 | Thursday 5 January 2017

Time Session / Event

8.30-9 Registration | Coffee & Pastries—Le Procope

9-9.15 Welcome Address |Co-Chairs - Professors Jim Corkery, Faculty of

Law, Bond University, Queensland & Pascale Bloch, Paris 13 Uni-

versity PRES Sorbonne Paris Cite

9.15-9.30 Opening Address | Mrs. Dominique Attias , Vice-President of the

Paris Bar Council

9.30-9.45 Update: 2016 in Review| Professor Pascale Bloch

9.45-10.30 International Mediation and Arbitration - The Culture Factor

Gaelle Le Quillec, Partner, Betto Seraglini (Paris)

10.30-11.15 Michelle Carr, Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth (Sydney)

11.15-12 In Search of Common European Principles of Civil Procedure: Will

Civil Law Finally Get Along With Common Law?

Professor Elisabetta Silvestri, Department of Law, University of Pa-

via (Italy)

12.15-3 Lunch | Le Procope

3.30-6 Excursion 1: Court of Justice

Presentation: Trials of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Mr Yves Ozanam, Chief Historian and Archivist of the Paris Bar &

Professor Gerard Carney, Law School, Curtin University

7-9 Cocktail Reception | The Travellers Club, Champs Elysées

Day 2 | Friday 6 January 2017

Day 3 | Saturday 7 January 2017

Time Session / Event

9-9.30 Coffee & Pastries—Le Procope

9.30-10.30 Summary Dismissal: Canvassing a New Approach

Dr Victoria Lambropoulos, Barrister and Senior Lecturer, School of

Law, Deakin University (Melbourne) & Professor Jerome Porta,

School of Law Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (Paris)

10.30-11.15 Corporate Social Responsibility: The Good Corporate Corporation

Professor Jim Corkery, Faculty of Law, Bond University (Gold

Coast)

11.15-12.45 Judicial Debate

Topic: "I'd rather be an accused in the French criminal justice sys-

tem than the Australian"

In the Affirmative: M. Charles Tellier, President of the District Court

of Aurillac (Tribunal De Grande Instance d'Aurillac) (Aurillac).

In the Negative: The Hon. Justice James Douglas, Judge of the Su-

preme Court of Queensland (Brisbane)

12.45-3.45 Lunch | Le Procope

4.15-6.15 Excursion 2: Parliament House (National Assembly)

7-10 Dinner | Le Procope

Time Session / Event

10-12 Excursion 3 | The Law Professors’ Tour

Led by Professors Gerard Carney and Pascale Bloch

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Emeritus Professor Pascale Bloch

The University Paris XIII (Paris-Nord) - CLE Paris Co-Chair

Pascale is Emeritus Professor of Law at Paris XIII University PRES Sorbonne Paris

Cité where she has held administrative and scientific responsibilities on various Law

School and University committees. Pascale founded and directed the Institute for

Research in Business Law (Institut de Recherche en Droit des Affaires – IRDA) from

1994 to 2012. She organized and directed the Master in European and international

law, 2005-2013, in Paris XIII Law School. She holds a Ph. D. in private law, University

of Burgundy, Dijon, France and an LL.M., Harvard Law School, USA. She specializes in

international commercial law, European and international banking law and comparative

law and her contributions are published in major law reviews.

Michelle Carr

Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth (Sydney)

Michelle has particular expertise in large document litigation involving big exposures

and reputations in superior jurisdictions. She is best known for her commercial litigation

skills and also advises on insurance, claims on directors and officers, trade practices

and other commercial matters.

Michelle has defended three class actions including based on allegations of anti-

competitive conduct in the airline industry. She is also advising internationally on

regulator investigations of price fixing and has just obtained a judgment against the

ACCC in which the regulator failed to establish conduct in a market in Australia in an

action against her client (appeal pending).

Michelle’s awards include:

“Best Lawyer - Insurance” - Best Lawyers Peer Review, 2014-2017

“Best Lawyer - Alternative Dispute Resolution” - Best Lawyers Peer Review, 2013-2017

“Best Lawyer - Class Action Litigation” - Best Lawyers Peer Review, 2012-2017

“Best Lawyer - International Arbitration” - Best Lawyers Peer Review, 2010-2017

“Lawyer of the Year - International Arbitration - Sydney” - Best Lawyers Peer Review,

2014

Professor Gerard Carney

Law School, Curtin University (Perth)

Gerard is one of Australia’s leading constitutional lawyers. Until recently he held the

prestigious Sir Gerard Brennan Chair of Law at the University of Queensland, where he

also served as Dean of Law. Previously he served as Deputy Head of the Bond University

School of Law. He is well known to the legal profession especially but not only in

Queensland. Gerard has a law degree with first class honours from QUT, an LLM from the

University of London; and a PhD from Bond University. He was admitted as a Solicitor of

the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1983 .

Professor Jim Corkery

Faculty of Law, Bond University (Gold Coast) & Co Chair CLE Paris

Former Chairman, Department of Law, University of Adelaide and Associate Dean of the

Bond Law School 1988-1993, Jim has also been a consultant to several Australian law

firms. Jim is Co-Director of the Centre for Commercial Law and specialises in corporate,

taxation and sports law. He is joint General Editor of the Revenue Law Journal, founder

and Editor of Corporate Governance eJournal, founder and Editor of the Sports Law

eJournal and is on the editorial board of the NZ Journal of Taxation and the Insolvency Law

Journal. A prize-winning lecturer, he has authored and edited many books and articles on

directors’ duties, corporate governance law and other commercial law topics.

The Hon. Justice James Douglas

Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland (Brisbane)

Justice James Douglas was appointed to the Supreme Court of Queensland in Australia in

November 2003. He holds degrees in arts and law from the University of Queensland and

the postgraduate LL.B. from Cambridge. Before he was appointed a judge he spent 27

years in practice as a barrister in Queensland, becoming a Queen’s Counsel in 1989. He

was President of the Bar Association of Queensland from 1999 to 2001. He is a member of

the International Academy of Comparative Law and of the American Law Institute, a former

president of the Alliance Française de Brisbane Inc and a member of the Senate of the

Australian Catholic University.

Dr Victoria Lambropoulos

Barrister and Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Deakin University (Melbourne)

Victoria joined Deakin Law School in 2004 as a full-time academic. She was practicing as a

Barrister prior to this. She maintains her practicing certificate as a Barrister and is a Commit-

tee member of the Industrial Bar Association.

Victoria holds a PhD in law. Her thesis examined the Employer's Contractual Power to Sum-

marily Dismiss Employees. In her thesis she proposed a new way of resolving these disputes

through the prism of Proportionality. Her solution was devised on the basis of statutory re-

form rather than through the Common Law.

In addition to this she has also published in Australian and International journal mainly in the

area of employment law.

Victoria is also a passionate, enthusiastic and innovative teacher. She is an expert in teach-

ing and learning particularly in the area of Workplace Law. Victoria was awarded a Faculty

Teaching Excellence in 2013 based on her teaching in this area.

Victoria is also a primary author and editor of the leading annotated book called the Fair

Work Legislation published yearly by Thomson Reuters and the editor of the Common Law

section of the Workplace Review. She is also invited regularly to speak at conferences in

Australia and internationally.

Professor Jerome Porta

School of Law, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (Paris)

Jérôme Porta is Professor of Law. He holds a PhD in European Law. He teaches Labour

Law, Comparative Law and International and European Social Law at the University of Bor-

deaux.

His main areas of research are related to the relations between legal systems in the Europe-

an area (implementation of European directives, Dialogues between courts). His researches

also deal with the issue of the European social model.

He also works on equality and fighting against discrimination. He is particularly involved in

research groups on gender and equality between women and men. He is also the author of

articles on labour law and industrial relations.

Gaëlle Le Quillec

Partner, Betto Seraglini & Member, Paris Bar Council

Gaëlle specializes in international litigation and international arbitration, with a focus on

commercial litigation (commercial contracts, sellers’ guarantees, post-M&A litigation), white-

collar crime and international commercial arbitration in the fields of aviation, leisure and

hospitality. She has also acquired expertise in investment arbitration proceedings.

She is trained in France and in the United States. She is dual-qualified and admitted to the

Paris and New York Bars. She speaks French and English fluently. Before joining Betto

Seraglini, she previously worked in the New York office of a major American law firm.

Gaëlle leads the Rencontres de l’Arbitrage, the Paris international arbitration club and is a

member of the Paris Bar Council. She is also the Moderator of the Arbitration & ADR List and

is a Member of the ICC Young Arbitrators.

Gaëlle awards and recognitions include:

Legal 500 EMEA 2015: “Gaëlle Le Quillec is ‘able to think outside the box’”

Legal 500, 2014: “Gaëlle Le Quillec is able to get at the heart of any dispute and then

gradually dismantle the opposition’s case”

Best Lawyer, 2014: “Gaëlle Le Quillec has been selected by her peers for inclusion in Best

Lawyers in France in the practice area of Arbitration and Mediation”.

Professor Elisabetta Silvestri

Professor Elisabetta Silvestri, Department of Law, University of Pavia (Italy)

Elisabetta is Associate Professor of Italian Civil Procedure and Comparative Civil Procedure

at the Department of Law, University of Pavia, where she is also scientific director of the post-

graduate program for the training of mediators and ADR professionals. Educated in Italy and

in the United States, Elisabetta has published and lectured extensively in Europe and in the

Russian Federation. She is co-director of the annual seminar on Public and Private Justice

(IUC, Dubrovnik, Croatia) and a member of the board for the project ‘The Language of the

Law’, co-sponsored by the University of Pavia and the Senate of the Italian Republic.

Elisabetta is a member of the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL) and

Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Procedural Law.

M. Charles Tellier

President of the District Court of Aurillac (Tribunal De Grande Instance d’Aurillac) (Aurillac)

Charles Tellier graduated from the Political Science College (Science Po) of Rennes, Britan-

ny and the National Academy for the Judiciary (Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature) of Bor-

deaux. He spent one year as an associate to the Hon. Justice Douglas, Judge in the Su-

preme Court of Queensland in Australia, an ideal position to compare the Australian and the

French judicial and legal systems. Firstly appointed a judge in Normandy in 2008, then in

southern France in Nîmes in 2011, he replaced absent judges and reinforced courts of these

areas, dealing with civil, criminal, juvenile or family cases. In 2014 he was seconded in the

Republic of Serbia as legal adviser to the Minister of Justice and the general prosecutor in

order to assist the reforms of the judiciary and the rule of law in accordance to the European

Union requirements. In January 2016 he was appointed President of the District Court

(Tribunal De Grande Instance) of Aurillac, in central France, where he deals with civil and

criminal cases.

Dominique Attias

Vice President of the Paris Bar Council – Opening CLE Paris 2017

A member of the Paris Bar since 1981 who began her term as its Vice -Chairman on 1

January 2016, Dominique Attias earned her Maîtrise de Droit (French equivalent of an

LLB) from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas and also holds a DESU (diploma of

higher university studies) and a DEA (diploma of advanced studies) in clinical psychol-

ogy and psychopathology, both awarded by Université Paris VIII.

Vice-Chairman Attias focuses her practice on the Law of Persons and on defending

the rights of minors; areas in which she has received national and international recog-

nition for her accomplishments, and is also widely known for her work in combating

violence against women.

Frequently invited as a guest lecturer for courses and seminars at the École Nationale

d’Administration (ENA), the École Nationale de la Magistrature (ENM), the École de

Formation Professionnelle des Barreaux de la Cour d ’Appel de Paris (EFB) and the

École de Formation des Avocats Centre Sud (EFACS), Vice -Chairman Attias has also

held a number of elected positions. She is a past member of the Conseil de l ’Ordre,

the council of the Paris Bar (2008–2010), as well as the Conseil National des Barreaux

(CNB, the French organisation representing all lawyers), elected as a candidate on the

council slate (2009–2011) before being elected as the chief candidate on the “Femmes

et Droit” slate (2012–2014). She is currently an expert advisor to the CNB ’s Freedoms

and Human Rights Committee. Recently, Vice-Chairman Attias was also reappointed

as head of the study group on protecting the rights of minors, which she founded in

2008.

Very active in her efforts to safeguard the rights of children, both in France and inter-

nationally, she serves as Secretary-General of the child rights organisation, Associa-

tion Louis Chatin.

Also a key influencer on issues relating to the rights of women, Vice -Chairman Attias

is a co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of the organisation Femmes et

Droit, Vice-President of Association Française des Femmes des Carrières Juridiques

(AFCJ) and a member of Association Française des Femmes Juristes (AFFJ).

Apart from her involvement in these organisations relating to her professional practice,

Vice-Chairman Attias serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of the humanitar-

ian organisations France Terre d’Asile and Droit et Démocratie and is also a member

of Droit et Procédure, a procedural training and professional assistance organisation,

and of Institut de Formation en Droits de l ’Homme, the human rights training centre

established by the Paris Bar.

Vice-Chairman Attias was named Chevalier de la Légion d ’Honneur on 22 September

2011.

PRIVATE VISITS

Every year, CLE Paris arranges law inspired, private excursions for our dele-

gates. In our upcoming 2017 event, we will be visiting the French Parliament

and the Supreme Court.

At the Supreme Court, in the same court room in which Marie Antoinette's tri-

al took place in 1793, Professor Gerard Carney (Law School, Curtin Univer-

sity) and Mr Yves Ozanam (Chief Historian and Archivist of the Paris Bar) will

make a presentation on the trials of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI.

In addition, which is now a tradition of CLE Paris, we will be repeating our

"Law Professors' Tour" - a legal and historical walking tour of Paris led by

Professors Gerard Carney and Pascale Bloch, including a visit to the Panthe-

on and the stories of the great French lawyers buried there.

REGISTRATION

Online + Phone Details

Registrations for CLE Paris can be made securely on-line through Eventbrite.

There is a link to the registration portal on our website: www.cleparis.org.

Because of the intimate nature of CLE Paris, places are strictly limited to 35

delegates.

If you wish to register over the phone, or for further information, please call

Joe Kafrouni on + 61 (0)400 422 222.

Registration Options

The following registrations are available:

Full Registration – $1,300 AUD / 850 Euro

One Day Registration – $800 AUD / 530 Euro

Partner Registration – $800 AUD / 530 Euro

Note: charges are processed through Eventbrite in AUD. Any conversions

above are an estimate only. Please check current conversion rate before reg-

istering.

Inclusions

Full Registration: includes the two days of conferencing, light breakfast,

lunch, reception on first night, dinner on second night and tea and coffee

breaks. It also includes our own privately organised excursions over the three

days.

Partner Registration: for partners of Full Registration delegates. In-

cludes all meals, the reception and excursions.

One Day Registration: includes one day of conferencing, lunch, dinner

or reception (which ever is on that particular day), tea and coffee breaks and

the organised excursion on that day.

CONTACT US

CLE Paris Steering Committee members:

Professor Jim Corkery, Bond University

Emeritus Professor Pascal Bloch, The University Paris 13

Professor Gerard Carney, Curtin University

Melissa Kafrouni, Lawyer

Joe Kafrouni, Lawyer

For any general information concerning the CLE Paris 2017 Legal Confer-

ence, please do not hesitate to contact:

Joe Kafrouni

P: + 61 (0)400 422 222

E: jkafrouni@klaw.com.au

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