AIDA EUROPE

AIDA Europe Academic/Students Sub-Committee

This committee under the co-chairmanship of Professor Robert Koch (member of the AIDA Europe Committee) and Kyriaki Noussia had as its first project put in motion an invitation to students to participate in a competition for the writing of papers for acceptance for presentation at working party meetings at the AIDA Europe Conference in Zurich in 2009.  Two students, Ozlem Gurses and Stella Sakellaridou, were selected to make such a presentation and to attend, expenses paid, the AIDA Europe Conference in Zurich.  The report of the Sub-Committee is attached here.

Congratulations to these prize winners

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AIDA Europe Conference, Amsterdam 26/27 May 2011 

REPORT AFTER THE AIDA EUROPE CONFERENCE IN AMSTERDAM ON 26-27 MAY 2011

The AIDA Europe Student Academic Subcommittee invited students and young practitioners to participate at the AIDA Europe Conference which was held in Amsterdam on 26-27 May 2011 and in this respect issued a call for papers in October 2010.

Following the assessment of the submitted abstracts, at the end of January 2011, the following papers were selected and subsequently presented:

a) a paper titled "Establishment of EIOPA - Risks and challenges for state insurance supervision in the EU" [presented by Ms Bozena Hagen (a Swiss PhD Law Student of the University of Basel)  at the session of the WP State Supervision], and

b) a paper titled "Pre-contractual information duties in insurance contract law - European Regulation, Comparison of Laws and Challenges for Croatia" [presented by Ms Ana Keglevic, (a Croatian PhD student and assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia)   at the session of the WP Consumer Protection]

The slides corresponding to the paper presented to the State Supervision Working Party by Bozena Hagen are attached here.  The paper presented to the Consumer Protection Working Party by Ana Keglevic is attached here.

Congratulations to these prize winners

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The AIDA Europe Student/Academic Sub-Committee - via its call for papers of 10.11.2011 - invited students and young practitioners to participate at the IV AIDA Europe Conference (London 13-14/09/2012).

Prior to the issuing of the call, we contacted the Chairmen of the AIDA Working Parties asking whether the Working Parties would be meeting in London as well as for suggested topics to be considered for the relevant call for papers.

Thanks to funding secured we selected and approved to fund the following persons:

a) thanks to funds provided by the University Hamburg Institute of Insurance Law, Ms Susie Marsden, of Swansea University, Wales presented a paper titled - "Putting a Premium on Reform: The Impact of the Rotterdam  Rules on Shippers and Insurers of Cargo" at the Marine Insurance Working Party,

b) thanks to funds provided by BNP Paribas Cardif, Mr Ralph Fearnhead, of Addleshaw Goddard LLP, London presented a paper titled "Follow the Fortunes Clauses in Reinsurance Law - Practical Problems in Ensuring their Effectiveness", at the Reinsurance Working Party,

c) thanks to funds provided by the British Insurance Law Association Charitable Trust, Mr Angelo Borselli, of the Università Bocconi, Milan presented a paper titled "Keeping watch on giants: the supervision of insurance groups and of insurance undertakings within financial conglomerates in European law" at the State Supervision Working Party

Attached is the European Insurance Law Review containing the papers - http://www.erevija.org/eng/journals.php?id=8 

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See attached in English and French for detail of the Competition relating to the 7th Prize which will be awarded by The Jean Bastin Scientific Fund, International Non-Profit Association under Belgian Law.