Background
Corporations
form the backbone of a country’s economy and the status of its commercial laws
determines the robustness of its economy. Corporations not only assist in
improving the local economy, they also play a key role in raising global
capital and furthering investments, both domestic and foreign.
Like
many other emerging economies, India has been on a path of rapid economic
liberalization and accompanying growth. This growth has required equally strong
corporate governance norms which have been implemented in India in the last ten
years or so. Drawing from the recommendations of the Cadbury Committee Report
and later, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Securities and Exchange Board of India
formulated and implemented corporate governance laws. However, the enactment of
the Companies Act, 2013 brings to the proverbial corporate table, new issues on
how companies are run, and more importantly, how they should be run. In
addition, various sectors and areas of law are undergoing significant changes due
to a variety of reasons, such as economic reforms, rethinking of institutional
policy and implementation of appropriate regulatory mechanisms to deal with
rapid socio-economic changes.
The
Michigan – Jindal Centre for Global Corporate and Financial Law and Policy,
Jindal Global Law School is proud to announce the Inaugural Corporate and
Financial Law Colloquium to be held at the OPJGU 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.. We welcome theoretical, empirical as well as
practitioners’ perspectives.
Call for Papers
Abstracts
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 Law
o
Growing
trends in combination regulation
o
Emerging
overlap between competition and intellectual property in the innovation
industry
o
Competition
compliance
- Corporate Governance/CSR
o
Board
liability and responsibility
o
Role
of Corporate Gatekeepers - Merchant Banks, Auditors and Corporate Lawyers
o
Minority
shareholder protection
o
Comparative
Corporate Governance
- Corporate Fund-Raising
o
Challenges
for Indian corporates to raise money from international capital market
o
Comparison
of raising finances through share issuances and through debt
o
Types
of debt instruments available to Indian corporates
o
Considerations
in determining mode of corporate financing
- Contract Drafting
o
Fashioning
remedies
o
Drafting
clauses on dispute resolution - traps for the unwary
o
Indemnification
- Insurance
o
The
Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill 2008
o
Developments
in insurance regulation
o
Consumer
protection in insurance
o
Insurance
product oversight and governance
- Banking
o
Competition
in the Banking Sector
o
Regulation
of Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs)
o
The
Sanctity of Debt-contract: Problems and Solutions
o
The
Rise of E-banking: Role of Law
- Islamic Finance/ Banking
o
Standardization
of Contemporary Islamic Finance
o
Product
Development in Islamic Finance
o
Islamic
Microfinance
o
Sharia-Compliant
Infinitives to Islamic Finance
Timing and Deadlines
The
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.
