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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
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
A: Level 36, Riparian Plaza, 71 Eagle Street, Brisbane, Qld, 4000
cleparis.org