HEIDELBERG ANTITRUST SYMPOSIUM 2016

DATE: Friday, June 17, 2016, 9:00 - 16:00h

LOCATION: Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstrasse 120, Heidelberg, Germany

The International Law Institute ("ILI"), Washington, DC, the Heidelberg University Law Faculty, Heidelberg, Germany, and the Georgetown Law Graduate and Transnational Programs Office, Washington, DC, are pleased to announce a Conference on:

ANTITRUST LAW IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MARKETS

The Conference will take place from 9:00 until 16:00h on Friday, June 17, 2016.  Prof. Don Wallace, Jr., Chairman of ILI, and Prof. Dr. Peter-Christian Mueller-Graff, Heidelberg Law Faculty, will preside at the event.

The symposium is a sequel to the symposium held at Heidelberg in May 2014 which honored the legacy of Prof. Dr. Heinrich Kronstein, addressed his past and future impact on antitrust law, and served to organize the continuation of the work and spirit of the Kronstein Kreis.

An AGENDA for the Symposium appears immediately below. 

Attendees will have the chance to put questions to the panels.  It is anticipated that the Symposium will be most enlightening for practitioners interested in antitrust law, particularly as it relates to technology markets, as well as individuals who were part of the Heinrich Kronstein Kreis.

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AGENDA

Heidelberg Symposium 2016

ANTITRUST LAW IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MARKETS

Heidelberg University

Friday, June 17, 2016, 9:00-16:00h

I.  Introductory Remarks

- Prof. Dr. Peter-Christian Mueller-Graff, Heidelberg University Law Faculty.

- Prof. Don Wallace, Jr., Chairman, International Law Institute; Faculty,
  Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC.

II.  Panel 1:  Antitrust, Technology Companies, and Shifting Norms:  How Far Apart are the US and EU? (9-11h)

1. • Divergence of norms between the United States and the European Union; how does this affect the antitrust analysis?
   • How should we view the antitrust actions against large high tech firms in light of Heinrich Kronstein's legacy?
     
     

- Prof. William Evan Kovacic, Faculty, George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC;
  Former Chairman, U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

- Dr. Markus Roehrig, Partner, HengelerMueller, Brussels. 

- Ms. Sarah Zinndorf, Dr. Jr. Candidate, Heidelberg University.

III.   Panel 2:  Developing a Modern Approach to Antitrust Legislation: How emerging economies are (and should be)
        managing dominant tech firms and the market (11-13h)

1. • In light of the high-tech climate, what could China, India, and other emerging economies take from the application of antitrust law of the EU and the US to tech giants?
   • Structuring antitrust measures in light of the dynamic tech marketplace.
     
     

- Prof. Christopher S. Yoo, Faculty, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, PA.                  

- Prof. Dr. Frank P. Maier-Rigaud, Head of Competition Economics Europe, NERA Economic Consulting,
  Berlin and Brussels; IESEG (LEM-CNRS), Paris.                 

- Dr. Jingwen Zhu, Partner, Winston & Strawn, Hong Kong.

IV.  Panel 3:  The Horizon: Trends in Tech and the Future of Antitrust (14-16h)

• • The marketplace of large technology firms is constantly shifting, dominance is fleeting, and new innovations and firms are always challenging the status quo.  In light of this and recent antitrust proceedings, what does the future hold for both the marketplace and the industry?
    
    

- Prof. William Evan Kovacic.

- Mr. Boris Wenger, Partner, Froriep, Zuerich.

- Dr. Rainer Becker, DG Competition,  European Commission.

V.  Closing Remarks

- Prof. Dr. Peter-Christian Mueller-Graff.

SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS

DR. RAINER BECKER is acting head of unit in the policy and strategy directorate of the European Commission's DG Competition. His unit is in charge of coordinating the Commission's antitrust and cartel cases and of developing competition policy in this area. In this function, he is involved in all major EU antitrust cases.

Dr. Becker previously served in several positions within DG Competition, working in particular on the EU's legislative initiative on private damages actions, and in operational units of the authority handling antitrust and merger matters in different industries. Before joining the Commission in 2004, he was a lawyer of the Brussels and Cologne bars and a senior associate in a major international law firm. He advised clients across a range of industries on European and German merger control, antitrust and cross-border litigation matters.

Dr. Becker has published and spoken widely on various issues of antitrust law, general EU law and comparative law, and occasionally lectures at Heidelberg University. Born in 1969, he studied Law, and Spanish & French literature at universities in Germany, Spain and Canada and holds Ph.D. (Trier), LL.M. (McGill) and Ass./Ref. iur. (Rh. Pfalz) degrees in law. He is fluent in German, English, French and Spanish.

PROF. WILLIAM E. KOVACIC is Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy, Professor of Law, and Director, Competition Law Center at the George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC.  Before joining GW Law School in 1999, Prof. Kovacic was the George Mason University Foundation Professor at the George Mason University School of Law.  From January 2006 to October 2011, he was a member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and chaired the agency from March 2008 to March 2009. He was the FTC's General Counsel from June 2001 to December 2004. In 2011 he received the FTC's Miles W. Kirkpatrick Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Since August 2013, Prof. Kovacic has served as a Non-Executive Director with the United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority. From January 2009 to September 2011, he was Vice-Chair for Outreach for the International Competition Network. He has advised many countries and international organizations on antitrust, consumer protection, government contracts, and the design of regulatory institutions, and is the author of numerous articles on the subject of competition.  He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his J.D. from Columbia University Law School.

PROF. Dr. FRANK P. MAIER-RIGAUD is Director and the Head of NERA's European Competition Economics Group. He has over 15 years of competition experience across all sectors encompassing all areas of competition economics, notably competitive effects of mergers, cartels, quantification of damages, abuse of dominance, state aid, and vertical and horizontal restraints. His research also addresses issues concerning the quantification of damage, the competitive effects of loyalty schemes/rebates and cartels, as well as behavioral and structural remedies.

He is a Full Professor in the Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods at the IÉSEG School of Management Paris and the Université Catholique de Lille, and a member of LEM-CNRS, the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Leading a team of over 25 professional competition economists mainly in the Brussels, London, Berlin and Paris offices of NERA, he works on a wide range of EU and EU Member State competition cases including for example the largest damages case brought so far in the EU, the appeal of the EU merger decision in the Telefónica Deutschland/ E-Plus case in front of the European Courts and large EU merger projects such as the GE/Alstom transaction.

Dr. Maier-Rigaud was a Senior Economist of the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission, where he was responsible for the review and scrutiny of hundreds of antitrust and merger decisions, the peer review panels and the sector inquiry framework. He led among the largest European Commission inspection teams comprised also of members of the French, German, and UK authorities on dawn raids and was involved in cases such as ENI, Intel, Prokent/Tomra, Réel/Alcan Pechiney, MasterCard, Oracle/PeopleSoft, and Sony/BMG. He appeared on behalf of the European Commission at numerous conferences, in case hearings, and before the European courts. As a Senior Economist in the Policy and Decision Scrutiny Directorate, he was involved in the Article 82 (now 102) review, the project group on services of general economic interest that laid the foundations for a more economic approach in state aid control and was the responsible economist in the early phases of the private enforcement/ damages claims initiative.

Dr. Maier-Rigaud was also Senior Economist at the Competition Division of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) where he oversaw the Working Party on Competition and Regulation, the tri-annual meetings of OECD member and observer country competition authorities on technical economic and regulatory competition issues.

Dr. Maier-Rigaud is member of the advisory board of Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb the oldest competition law journal in Europe. He teaches courses in Industrial Organisation, Competition Policy, Public and Regulatory Economics and Experimental Economics and publishes prolifically in these areas. Among other journals, OECD publications, and books, his work has appeared in the Antitrust Law Journal, the European Competition Journal, the European Competition Law Review, the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, the Journal of European Competition Law and Practice, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of Institutional Economics and Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb. He also won the 2014 Concurrences Antitrust Writing Award in the Category Business Economics for his work on retail price maintenance.


PROF. DR. PETER-CHRISTIAN MUELLER-GRAFF is full professor for Private, Business, European and Comparative Law and Director of the Institute for Corporate and Business Law at Heidelberg University (IGW). He is chairman of the German Association of Law Faculties since 2013, chairman of the German European Studies Association since 2002 and counsel of several ministries. He is author of many books and articles on Business Law (including Antitrust) and European Union, Private and Comparative Law. He is or has been also a visiting professor at several foreign universities, among them Georgetown University Law Center and Cornell University Law School, Nancy and Bordeaux, Zürich and Vienna, Cracow and Budapest, the College of Europe Bruges/Natolin and Nihon (Tokyo).

After graduating from Tübingen University Law Faculty (First State Exam) he studied at Cornell Law School, clerked at different courts and at the European Commission, acquired the qualification to sit as judge (Second State Exam), concluded his doctorate and his habilitation at Tübingen University, was appointed as professor of law at Cologne University in 1982 and as Judge at the Court of Appeals (Private Law and Competition Law) in 1985. In 1986 he joined the Trier University Law Faculty and in 1994 the Heidelberg University Law Faculty where he served as Dean from 1999 to 2004. He also served as Counsel to the European Constitutional Convention and represented the Federal Republic before the European Court of Justice.

DR. MARKUS ROEHRIG is an antitrust partner at Hengeler Mueller in Brussels. He holds a doctorate degree from the University of Cologne and a master's degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. He has authored several articles and spoken at various conferences on antitrust law. Dr. Röhrig is admitted to practice in Germany and in New York. He frequently advises clients on the European and German antitrust and merger control laws. He represents companies before the European Commission, the Federal Cartel Office, as well as the European and German courts. Over the past years, he has been heavily involved in international cartel cases, internal antitrust compliance investigations, and in strengthening companies' compliance policy and culture.

PROF. DON WALLACE, JR. is Chairman of the International Law Institute, Washington, DC, and Professor at Georgetown University Law Center.  Prof. Wallace was the Regional Legal Advisor for the Middle East and Deputy Assistant General Counsel to AID in the Department of State from 1962-66, a founding board member of the International Development Law Organization in Rome, and has been the head of the International Law Institute since 1970.  He chaired the Advisory Committee on World Trade and Technology to the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress from 1976-79, and is currently a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law, a U.S. Delegate to UNCITRAL, and a correspondent of UNIDROIT and the vice president of the UNIDROIT Foundation in Rome. He has also been chair of the Section of International Law and Practice of the American Bar Association and a member of the ABA House of Delegates.

Recent and current activities also include assisting Rwanda with the preparation of its constitution and commercial law, teaching in China, directing a research and exchange project with Russia, serving on boards involving academic activities in Egypt, in Indonesia, in Serbia and in Bulgaria, and the advisory board of the ABA Rule of Law Initiative (ROLI).  He has been on the roster of World Trade Organization (WTO) panelists.  He is the author of books and articles.  He received his B.A. from Yale University and his LL.B. from Harvard Law School.

MR. BORIS WENGER is a partner with Froriep in Zurich and heads the firm's competition group. His practice focuses on all aspects of Swiss and European competition law. He acts as counsel in competition law matters before competition authorities, civil courts and arbitral tribunals. Alongside his competition law practice, he also has considerable experience advising on matters of public commercial law, such as public procurement, customs and export control matters.

He obtained his law degrees from the University of Basel in 1996 (lic. iur.) and from Stanford Law School (JSM) in 2002. He was admitted to the Zurich Bar in 2001. Previously, he served as a teaching assistant at the University of Basel. He is a frequent speaker and he publishes regularly on various topics of competition law.

PROF. CHRISTOPHER S. YOO is the John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science and the Founding Director of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania.  His research focuses on the insights that the principles of network engineering and imperfect competition provide into the regulation of the Internet and intellectual property.  He is building an innovative integrated interdisciplinary program designed to produce a new generation of professionals with advanced training in both law and engineering.  He is leading a major study comparing competition policy in China, Europe. and the U.S.  He is also the primary organizer of an empirical analysis of innovative ways on connecting more of the world the Internet. 

Before entering the academy, Professor Yoo clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.  He also practiced law with Hogan & Hartson (then Hogan Lovells) under the supervision of now-Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.  He also served as a professor at the Vanderbilt Law School, where he led the Technology and Entertainment Law Program.  He is a graduate of Harvard College, the Anderson School at UCLA, and the Northwestern University School of Law.  The author of four books and more than seventy articles and book chapters, Professor Yoo testifies frequently before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and foreign regulatory authorities. 

DR. JINGWEN ZHU is a partner of Winston & Strawn Hong Kong & China. She advises international corporations on merger notifications, antitrust  investigations, private antitrust litigation, antitrust counseling, commercial strategy, and compliance. She also has experience in state-owned monopolies, privatization of infrastructure, and subsequent sector regulation. She advises clients in a wide range of sectors ranging from air and maritime transportation, health care, insurance, telecommunication, luxury goods, leisure and hospitality to diverse manufacturing activities. Dr. Zhu has been ranked as a leading competition lawyer by International Financial Law Review (Hong Kong) 2012-2016. She received her doctorate degree (Dr. jur. summa cum laude) from University of Munich.

MS. SARAH ZINNDORFis a Doctor of Laws candidate at the University of Heidelberg and currently works as Legal Trainee (Referendarin) at the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main.

In her doctoral thesis she analyzes the application of E.U. Antitrust Law on search engine markets, focusing on the Google case and the vertical integration of specialized search services. For her research she has been granted a scholarship from the Episcopal Foundation Cusanuswerk. 

After graduating from Heidelberg Law School (First State Exam) in 2012, she worked as Research Associate at the Institute of German and European Corporate and Business Law for Professor Peter-Christian Müller-Graff. In 2013 she was Visiting Researcher at the University of Chicago Law School (supported by the German Academic Exchange Service) where she worked closely with Professor Randal C. Picker.

 Senator Ekweremadu speaking at the ILI Alumni Reception held in Abuja

Nigeria’s democracy cannot survive without the rule of law – Ekweremadu

The Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has said that no democracy in the world can survive without strict adherence to the rule of law.

This is contained in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Uche Anichukwu, and issued to journalists on Saturday in Abuja.

According to the statement, Mr. Ekweremadu made the remark at a dinner organised by the International Law Institute (ILI), Washington DC, for its alumni in Nigeria.

He noted that no country could experience meaningful development without the rule of law. He said: “Democracy becomes gravely imperilled if the powers of the judiciary to enforce compliance with the rule of law are subjected to legal, extra-legal, and sociological limitations.

“Our task as an emerging democracy is to continue to build a society where government agencies as well as individuals and private entities must be subjected to and accountable under the law.

“We must ensure that the process by which laws are enacted, administered, and enforced is accessible, fair and efficient.

“We must ensure that justice is delivered according to established laws, timeously, competently, ethically and independently.

“I hold the opinion and fervently so that the principle of the rule of law is at the heart of the survival of democracy.

“A democracy without the rule of law is like salt that has lost its saltiness.”

The Senator noted that the World Bank had indicated that economic growth, political modernisation, protection of human rights and other worthy objectives, were hinged on the rule of law.

He expressed concern that developing nations, which were in dire need of development, lacked the rule of law to a large extent. He attributed the situation to lack of strong democratic institutions, lack of independence of the judiciary and political instability.

Mr. Ekweremadu assured that the National Assembly would continue to partner ILI to build the capacity of its members and parliamentary staff.

The statement quoted Kim Phan, the Executive Director of ILI, as expressing happiness with the growth of democracy in Nigeria. She also expressed joy with the opportunity the institute had to be part of the country’s success story.

She said that the institute was committed to the growth of democracy and development of Nigeria.

Article republished with permission from Premium Times of Nigeria - http://www.premiumtimesng.com

PROGRAM:       The conference will discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) from a variety of perspectives - the Executive and Congressional branches, economic, geopolitical, industry and labor. Topics to be covered will include:     Prospects for Congressional approval of TPP Impact of TPP on economic relations in the Pacific TPP membership expansion Investment issues Investor-state dispute settlement Environment Labor Intellectual property issues State-Owned Enterprises Key market access issues, including Autos Agricultural products Textiles and apparel Services     SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE:       Everett Eissenstat, Chief Trade Counsel, Senate Finance Committee Jason Kearns, Chief Minority Trade Counsel, House Ways and Means Committee Scott Miller, Center for Strategic and International Studies Matthew Schruers, Computer and Communications Industry Association Angela Ellard, Chief Trade Counsel, House Ways & Means Committee Gary Hufbauer, Peterson Institute for International Economics Kimberly Ann Elliott, Center for Global Development Barbara Weisel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Mike Harney, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Congressional Affairs Michael J. Smart, Rock Creek Advisers Celeste Drake, AFL-CIO Gary Horlick, The Law Offices of Gary H. Horlick Warren Maruyama, Hogan Lovells Richard Cunningham, Steptoe & Johnson Brian Pomper, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Stephen Lamar, American Apparel and Footwear Association Devry Boughner, Cargill Jayme White, Senate Finance Committee Claude Barfield, American Enterprise Institute       ATTENDANCE: DATE: DEC. 8, 2015  - REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. RSVPs NO LONGER ACCEPTED   TIME: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM   LOCATION: INTERNATIONAL LAW INSTITUTE 1055 Thomas Jefferson St., Suite M-100, NW, Washington, DC 20007     CONTACT: NOTE: WE HAVE REACHED FULL CAPACITY OF THE SEATS AVAILABLE FOR THIS EVENT. RSVPs NO LONGER ACCEPTED. YOU CAN BE PLACED IN WAITING LIST IF YOU WISH TO ATTEND. Please contact Mr. Jason Everett at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   CO-SPONSORS: .

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China Law Society at US Supreme Court		Meeting with Scott Harris, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States

The International Law Institute was honored to have received an esteemed delegation of senior judges, prosecutors, legal scholars and practitioners and government representatives from China Law Society.

China Law Society (CLS) is a nationwide professional and academic organization, serving as a bond between Chinese legal professionals and legal practitioners. It plays an important role in developing the legal system, fostering legal research and promoting the rule of law in China. China Law Society, its affiliated associations and local branches have actively organized legal professionals and practitioners in China to participate in the nation's legislation, judiciary, law enforcement and law popularization activities, have conducted legal researches and exchanges of multi-subjects, multi-levels and broad-fields, thus have made certain contributions to promoting rule of law in China, and to advance the development of the rule of law in China and to advance social prosperity.

Established in 1949, China Law Society now has 32 provincial branches, 56 affiliated associations and nearly 240,000 members. It serves at a very high level of prestige and input to the Chinese government and legal community and provides substantive legal impact both domestically and internationally. China Law Society is governed by the National Congress, which is convened every five years. Headquartered in Beijing, it has 5 departments, namely, General Office, Research Department, Overseas Liaison Department and Membership Department. Publications sponsored by China Law Society including Chinese Legal Science, Democracy and Legal System and Law Yearbook of China and China Law Society have gained a great number of readers and broad social impact, which has made them the base of legal academic research. [www.chinalawsociety.com]

As a major channel of foreign legal exchanges in China, China Law Society maintains relations with more than 800 legal institutions from over 100 countries and regions globally. China Law Society maintains Memorandum of Mutual Cooperation with over 135 institutions from 88 countries. In cooperation with their international partners, China Law Society has conducted broad cooperation in mutual visits, academic studies as well as legal professional training. *

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With Frederick S. Ansell, US Senate – Senate Judiciary Committee		Presentation by Judge Carolyn Kuhl, Superior Court of Los Angeles County on the Efficiencies and Limitations of Specialty Courts

Training focused on the selection process of judges, prosecutors from lawyers and legal scholars; judicial selection process; judicial and prosecutorial oversight and management mechanisms. 

From this training program, the delegation is responsible to provide the government of China formal recommendations of judicial and prosecutorial changes in China's new legal reform legislation.

Discussion points included U.S Legal and Court specific systems; Judicial Independence; Professional Ethics and Oversight; Judge Selection; Judicial Conduct and Discipline in US; Prosecutor Selection and Management; U.S Criminal Justice System and the Independent Role of Prosecutor; Professional advancement and cross-over among lawyers, legal scholars, prosecutors, judges and in-house counsel in the US; comparative analysis of legal community between U.S and Europe; The Role of Federal v. State Governments in the selection of Judge and Prosecutors; Court Assignment Systems; Mechanisms of Administrative Investigation, Review Corrective Action and Professional Dismissals of Judges and Prosecutors; International Legal Research; Establishment of Independent Judicial Selection Committees; Establishment of Specialty Courts, Specialty Prosecution Systems and Circuit Court Systems and Administration; among others pertinent issues.

Training was conducted in Washington, DC and Los Angeles.

The delegation was led by Mr. YIN Baohu, Director General-China Legal Exchange Center of China Law Society. The delegation further comprised of: Mr. HE Peng, Program Officer-China Legal Exchange Center of China Law Society; Mr. LIU Guiming, Chief Editor – Democracy and Legal System; Mr. LU Leyun, Executive Deputy Procurator-General – People's Procuratorate of Hunan Province; Mr. WANG Weiguo, Deputy Director General – Legal Information Department of China Law Society; Ms. REN Yishan, Deputy Director-General – Chinese Law Counseling Center; Mr. MA Guohua, Deputy Secretary-General – All China Lawyers Association; Ms. XU Wenshan, Vice-President & Secretary-General – Law Society of Guizhou Province; Mr. ZHANG Hua, Executive Council Member, Law Society of Shanghai; Mr. Yl Zhenli, Deputy Director-General –Bureau of Justice of Henan Province; Mr. SONG Zehua, Deputy Director General - Research Department Standing Committee People's Congress of Liaoning; Mr. YAO Huaixiang, President – Law Society of Jinan of Shandong Province; Mr. ZHAO Mingchao, Council Member, Prevention of Transnational Crime Academy; Mr. SHI Guoxin, Member ,Office of Reform of the Judicial System of Qinghai Province; Mr. LU Xiaochuan, Deputy Secretary-General – Law Society of Gansu Province; Mr. WANG Yunge, Judge Higher People's Court of Shandong Province; Mr. CUI Wensheng, Director – Anti-Corruption Bureau of People's Procuratorate of Dalian of Liaoning; Mr. CHEN Shiguo, Council Member of Law Society of Wuhan; Ms. LI Chen, Deputy Director– Membership Department of China Law Society; Mr. WANG Yan, Deputy Director – Higher People's Court of Tianjin; Mr. ZHU Xueyuan, Deputy Director, People's Procuratorate of Chongqing; Mr. LI Jianqi, Deputy Director- People's Procuratorate of Jiangsu Province; Mr. SU Bin - Vice President Intermediate People's Court of Xi'an.

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Mr. Yin Baohu and LA County District Attorney, Jackie Lacey		Judge Craiq I. Iscoe, Superior Court of the District of Columbia  presents to China Law Society

This program was supported by ILI staff and an unparalleled assembly of training partners from the U.S. government, law firms and private sector organizations.  ILI respectfully acknowledges the immeasurable expertise, contributions and program support from Professor James Feinerman, Georgetown University Law Center; Honorable Marian Horn, United States Court of Federal Claims; Mary-Ann Burkhart, National District Attorney Association; Jim Chance, Federal Judicial Center; Monty Wilkinson and Norman Wong, US Department of Justice – Executive Office for US Attorneys; John V. Geise and Sarah Cable from the US Department of Justice - Office of Professional Responsibility; Dr. James Apple, International Judicial Academy; Frederick S. Ansell, US Senate – Senate Judiciary Committee; Scott Harris, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States; Robert Horowitz, Brianne Stuart, Nicole Pytlik, Arthur H. Garwin, Ellyn S. Rosen, American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative and Office of Professional Responsibility; Peter Roudik and Laney Zhang, US Law Library of Congress; Andrew Parker, Commonwealth of Virginia, District Attorney Office; Judge Craiq I. Iscoe, Superior Court of the District of Columbia; Judge William Highberger, Judge Carolyn Kuhl, Justice Lee Edmon, Judge Michael Levanas, Judge Maria Stratton, Ivette Pena, Esq., Judge James Brandlin, Judge Kathleen Kennedy of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County; Jackie Lacey, District Attorney of Los Angeles County; Terrie Cody, Marc Burnley, Sergio Gonzalez, James Garrison, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office; Ismael Bautista, Bo Tang, Jerrod Abeles, Arent Fox LLP; Honorable J. Clifford Wallace, David Madden, US Ninth Circuit Court.

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The Honorable James Brandlin, Superior Court of Los Angeles  County Discusses Criminal Judicial Procedures [in the notable OJ Simpson Court Room]		Ninth Circuit Court, Senior Justice, Honorable J. Clifford Wallace presents on the US Federal Circuit Court System, Court Administration and Appellate Procedures

The success of this program was dependent of the additional commitment and support of the following: the Office of the Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton, Congressperson of the District of Columbia; ILI Associates Purui Zhao, Shuyu Shen, An Zhang, Jane Rudy, Yan Ding, and Yingjun Zou.

ILI would like to extend special recognition and humble gratitude to Mr. David Mao, Robert Newlen, Peter Roudik, Ms. Laney Zhang, Kimberly Zellars, Jeanine Cali and the entire the staff and security of the US Law Library of Congress and US Capitol Police for their extraordinary and most kind considerations.

Program oversight and development by Robert Sargin, ILI Deputy Director and Ms. Wang Kun and Ms. Ren Jie from Beijing Future Land Information and Consulting Co. Ltd.

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Mr. MENG Yaojun, Deputy Chief Prosecutor–People's Procuratorate Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Guangxi Prosecutor delegation at office of INTERPOL - Washington, U.S. Department of Justice.

The International Law Institute is honored to have received an esteemed delegation of prosecutors from Guangxi Province, China under the direction of the Chinese Ministry of Justice on Judicial Cooperation in the Pursuit and Recovery of Stolen Assets and Suspects.

The delegation trained on the important and noble objective of the pursuit and recovery of stolen Chinese assets and criminal suspects trans-nationally. Special focus was concentrated on assets and individuals who may have entered, or passed through, the United States and the judicial cooperation available between our two nations, to assist in these efforts.

Discussion points included Sovereign Asset Forfeiture and Repatriation; Treaties, Bilateral Agreements and Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties; Investigations and Seizure; Criminal and Civil Forfeiture Processes; Tracking of Financial Assets; Rules of Evidence; US-Sino Framework Agreements; INTERPOL Global Pursuit; WB StAR Protocols; Securities Controls and Investigations; FCPA; Extradition; US Federal v. State laws; Cyber-Crime.

Under President Xi's directives, extraordinary dedication is being made at all levels of Chinese society to implement anti-corruption measures and to recover stolen public monies and illegally obtained proceeds channeled through the private sector. Washington-based Global Financial Integrity Group has estimated outflows of illicit cash from China, between 2003 and 2012 approximates $1.25 trillion USD. Prosecutors report processing in excess of 3,700 corruption cases since the directives.

Training was conducted in Washington, DC and New York City.

World Bank StAR conference with Elsa Krishan

The delegation was comprised of senior level prosecutors and led by Mr. MENG Yaojun, Deputy Chief Prosecutor – People's Procuratorate Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The delegation further consisted of: Mr. WANG Jian, Chief Prosecutor – People's Procuratorate Laibin City; Mr. LIANG Yi, Deputy Director General – Anti-Corruption Bureau, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region; Mr. LIU Xiang, Deputy Director – Department of Anti-Dereliction of Duty, People's Procuratorate Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region; Mr. FANG Liang, Director - People's Procuratorate Nanning City; Mr. GUO Wei, Chief Prosecutor - People's Procuratorate Qingxiu District of Nanning City; Mr. WU Yonghui, Chief Prosecutor – People's Procuratorate Luzhai County, Liuzhou City; Ms. QIN Yan, Deputy Chief Prosecutor – People's Procuratorate Guilin City; Mr. CHEN Shizi, Chief Prosecutor, People's Procuratorate Lipu County, Guilian City; Mr. YU Xuelong, Chief Prosecutor – People's Procuratorate Ziyaun County, Guilin City; Mr. SHI Shian, Deputy Chief Prosecutor – People's Procuratorate Wuzhou City; Mr. QIN Zuyu, Chief Prosecutor - People's Procuratorate of Teng County, Wuzhou City; Mr. NING Zichuan, Deputy Chief Prosecutor – People's Procuratorate Beihai City; Ms. CEN Jianjun, Director – Department of Anti-Dereliction of Duty, People's Procuratorate of Qinzhuo City; Mr. YANG Yong, Director – Anti-Corruption Bureau, People's Procuratorate Guigang City; Mr. YANG Xuebin, Director, People's Procuratorate Yulin City; Mr. HE Zhongwang, Deputy Chief prosecutor, People's Procuratorate Baise City; Mr. HE Yaolin, Chief Prosecutor – People's Procuratorate Youjaing District, Baise City; Mr. XIE Tingfu, Deputy Chief Prosecutor – People's Procuratorate Hezhou City; Mr. LIANG Yongliang, Director – Anti-Corruption Bureau, People's Procuratorate Hechi City; Mr. MO Dongfang, Chief Prosecutor – People's Procuratorate Taine County, Hechi City; Mr. LING Shaofeng, Chief Prosecutor – People's Procuratorate Pingxiang City; Mr. WEI Jiubao, Chief Prosecutor, Liuzhou Railway Transportation Procuratorate.

This program was supported by an extraordinary team of training partners from the U.S. government, law firms and private sector organizations.

ILI most respectfully acknowledges the immeasurable expertise, contributions and program support from William Cowden, William Cowden, LLC; Stefan Cassella, Asset Forfeiture, LLC; Ralph Caccia, Wiley Rein, LLP; Debra LaPrevotte and Kevin Wolf, Federal Bureau of Investigations; Jennifer Wallis, US Department of Justice; Emmet Sigmon, INTERPOL – Washington; Elsa Krishan and Lisa Bostwick, World Bank / World Bank StAR; Katrina Carroll – Wilmer Hale, LLP; Laurel Litchy, Integreon; Duncan Levin, T&M Protection Services; Lorena Sander and Lori Lee, United Nations; Michael Kim, Carrie Tendler, Jalili Asif, Randal Arthur, Shaun Wu, Kobre & Kim, LLP; Henry Klehm, Jones Day, LLP; Kenn Kern, Lynn Goodman, Sophi Jacobs, Rosaly German, New York County District Attorney's Office; and Lisa Prager, Schulte Roth & Zabel, LLP.

New York County District Attorney's Office with Kenn Kern - Chief of Staff, Investigations Division; Lynn Goodman - Assistant District Attorney, Chief, Asset Forfeiture Unit; Sophi Jacobs - Assist District Attorney, Cyber-crime and Identity Theft Bureau; Rosaly German - Planning & Coordination

Special appreciation to ILI Associates: Ms. An Zhang, Ms. Yan Ding, Ms. Shuyu Shen, Ms. Purui Zhou, Mr. Jiayuan Tian, Ms. Yingjun Zou for their skillful administration. Program oversight and development by Robert Sargin, ILI Deputy Director and Ms. Wang Kun and Ms. Ren Jie from Beijing Future Land Information and Consulting Co. Ltd.

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