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Jurisdiction: Building Confidence in a Borderless Medium

July 26-27, 1999
Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Canada

Program

26 July 1999

07:45 - 08:30 Registration

08:00 - 08:30 Continental Breakfast

08:30 - 09:00 Introduction, Welcome to Canada

Masanobu Katoh, General Manager, Fujitsu Limited and Chairman, Internet Law and Policy Forum

Nick Discepola, Member of Parliament (Vaudreuil-Soulanges)

Opening Remarks and Welcome

Richard Simpson, Director General, Electronic Commerce Task Force, Canada

09:00 - 10:15 Traditional Legal Concepts: Basics from Three Experts

Henry Perritt*, Dean, Chicago-Kent College of Law, USA

Agne Lindberg*, Partner, Advokatfirman Delphi, Sweden

Kazunori Ishiguro, Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:30 Developments in the Law: Judicial Decisions and Practical Approaches
Moderator: Elizabeth deGrazia Blumenfeld, Deputy Director, Legal and Brand Policy, America Online, USA

John Gedid*, Professor, Widener University School of Law, USA

Tom Bell, Partner, Perkins Coie, USA

Peter Harter, Vice President Global Public Policy & Standards, EMusic.com, USA

11:30 - 12:30 Plenary: Jurisdiction and Consumer Confidence in a Borderless Marketplace: Balancing Policy Goals

Hon. Robert Pitofsky, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission, USA

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch with Speaker

Francis Gurry, Assistant Director General and Legal Counsel, WIPO

14:00 - 14:45 Panel: Banking and Financial Services/Electronic Payment Systems
Chair: Thomas Vartanian*, Partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, USA

Henry L. Judy*, Of Counsel, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, USA

Chris Reed, Head of the IT Law Unit, Queen Mary's College and University, UK

14:45 - 15:45 The State's Power to Compel Payment or Collection: Taxation
Chair: Peter Cobb*, Partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, USA

Kaye Caldwell, Public Policy Director, CommerceNet, USA

Carol Dunahoo, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, USA

Martin Kreienbaum, Federal Ministry of Finance, Germany

15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:30 Transactions Contrary to Public Law and Policy
Moderator: Janet Henderson, Rights and Public Policy Manager, British Telecom, UK

Alan Sutin*, Partner, Greenberg Traurig, USA

16:30 - 17:00 Development of Law on a Private Basis: Business to Business Transactions
Moderator: Rosalyn Breedy, Associate Director, European Programme Office, Warburg Dillon Read, UK

Åke Nilson, Managing Director, Marinade Limited, UK

17:00 - 17:45 The Role of International Organizations and Agreements

Harold Burman, Office of the Legal Advisor, U.S. Department of State, USA

Jenny Clift, Legal Officer, UNCITRAL, Austria

18:00 - 19:00 Social Hour

* Participants in the America Bar Association's project, Transnational Issues in Cyberspace: a Project on the Law Relating to Jurisdiction

27 July 1999
CONSUMER PROTECTION

08:00 - 08:30	Continental Breakfast
08:30 - 09:15	Plenary: Consumer Protection Andrew J. Pincus, General Counsel, U.S. Department of Commerce, USA
09:15-10:45	Comparative Overview of Consumer Protection Laws: Scope, Enforcement, Jurisdiction. Chair: Ron Plesser, Partner, Piper & Marbury, USA Panel: A Comparative Overview Advertising, Commercial Information Fraud Disclosures, Billing, Dispute Resolution, etc. Specially Regulated Professions and Activities Sven-Erik Heun, Partner, Clifford Chance, Germany Roger Tassé, Partner, Gowling Strathy and Henderson, Canada Kai Westerwelle, Associate, Bruckhaus Westrick Heller Löber, Germany Ching-Yi Liu, Assistant Professor of Law, National Central University, Taiwan Michael Geist, Professor of Law, University of Ottowa, Canada
10:45 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	Choice of Law for Consumer Contracts Does national law recognize a consumer's choice of law if the choice provides a different level of consumer protection? Are there consumer protection rules re choice of forum? What is sufficient evidence of informed choice? What are some solutions and alternatives? Scott Blackmer and Susan Crawford, Partners, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, USA
11:30 - 12:15	Developments in the EU Moderator: Matthew Yeo, Associate, Steptoe & Johnson, USA Mike Pullen, Associate, Dibb Lupton Alsop, Belgium Mark Bohannon, Chief Counsel for Technology, US Department of Commerce, USA Analysis of applicability outside a common market:
12:15 - 13:45	Lunch with Speaker Nigel Hickson, Department of Trade and Industry, UK
13:45 - 15:15	Protecting the Consumer over a Borderless Medium Chair: Roger Cochetti, Program Director Policy & Business Planning, IBM Internet Division (USA) Territorial limits on enforcement, cooperative efforts Hugh Stevenson, Associate Director, Federal Trade Commission, USA Natalie James, Project Manager, Australian Commission's Internet Commerce and Competition Project, Australia Barbara Wellbery, Counsellor to the Under Secretary for Electronic Commerce, US Department of Commerce, USA Panel: Additional Means of Protection and Trust Steven Cole, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, Council of Better Business Bureaus and BBBOnLine, USA - Industry Self-regulation. Lynne Nostrant, Vice President, Visa International, USA - Voluntary Intermediary Dispute Resolution. Laurie Labuda, OECD Committee on Consumer Policy, France - Ultranational Rules: the OECD. Mary W.S. Wong, Visiting Attorney, Morrison & Foerster LLP, USA - Online Dispute Resolution Mechanisms. Comments: Philippa Lawson, Counsel, Public Interest Advocacy Centre, Canada Bill Poulos, Director Electronic Commerce Policy, EDS, USA
15:15 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30	Experts' Response Moderator: Jack L. Goldsmith, Associate Professor of Law, University of Chicago, USA Henry Perritt Agne Lindberg Kazunori Ishiguro
16:30	Adjournment

* Participants in the America Bar Association's project, Transnational Issues in Cyberspace: a Project on the Law Relating to Jurisdiction

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