JGLS announces Corporate and Financial Law Colloquium

The Michigan – Jindal Centre for Global Corporate and Financial Law and Policy, Jindal Global Law School has announced calls for paper for Corporate and Financial Law Colloquium to be held at the OPJGU (O.P Jindal Global University) campus from April 15th, 2015 to April 17th 2015.The goal of this colloquium is to present an important opportunity for practitioners, academicians, law students, representatives of regulatory bodies, businesses, investors and stakeholders to engage and reflect on issues relevant to corporate governance and emerging legal, policy and regulatory challenges and developments in rapidly developing areas such as banking, competition and corporate fund-raising.Call for PapersAbstracts are invited on a number of broad themes around which the conference will be organized. Selected papers pertaining to each theme will be discussed in a panel consisting of presenters as well as experienced members of the JGLS faculty. These themes, along with suggested sub-topics are as follows:Competition LawGrowing trends in combination regulation oEmerging overlap between competition and intellectual property in the innovation industryCompetition complianceGovernance/CSRBoard liability and responsibilityRole of Corporate GatekeepersMerchant Banks, Auditors and Corporate LawyersMinority shareholder protectionComparative Corporate GovernanceCorporate Fund-RaisingChallenges for Indian corporates to raise money from international capital marketComparison of raising finances through share issuances and through debtTypes of debt instruments available to Indian corporatesConsiderations in determining mode of corporate financingContract DraftingFashioning remediesDrafting clauses on dispute resolution - traps for the unwaryIndemnificationInsuranceThe Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill 2008Developments in insurance regulationConsumer protection in insuranceInsurance product oversight and governanceBankingCompetition in the Banking SectorRegulation of Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs)The Sanctity of Debt-contract: Problems and SolutionsThe Rise of E-banking: Role of LawIslamic Finance/ BankingStandardization of Contemporary Islamic FinanceProduct Development in Islamic FinanceIslamic Microfinance, Sharia-Compliant Infinitives to Islamic Finance Timing and DeadlinesThe conference will run from April 15th, 2015 to April 17th 2015 (both days inclusive) and will be held at the O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, NCR of Delhi, India.Abstracts of not more than 500 words are required to be submitted via email by January 30th, 2014 to Arjya Majumdar at abmajumdar@jgu.edu.in. Email submissions must have “Corporate and Financial Law Colloquium – Abstract Submission” as the subject header.Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by February 15th, 2015.Selected participants must send in their confirmation of registration and draft papers (8,000 – 10,000 words) by March 20th, 2015. Registration modalities will be informed to selected participants separately. Draft papers must be submitted in MS Word *.doc (Times New Roman, font size 12, double spacing) format, in UK English and footnotes should conform to the requirements of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (19th ed.)Accommodation & local transfers Jindal Global Law School will provide accommodation to the participants on the university premises. Transfers to and from the Delhi airport will also be provided.

JGLS announces Corporate and Financial Law Colloquium

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