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• 12th Transnational Crime Conference
  11 - 13 June, New York City, USA
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Featured news:

The 2009 report authored by the IBA Legal Practice Division Task Force on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (2009) is now available for purchase in the IBA shop, in book format, at £25. The Task Force was formed to focus on two important questions:

• When should a state be able to regulate persons or conduct occurring outside its territory?
• How should overlaps or conflicts of jurisdiction between two or more states be resolved?

The report responds to these questions by laying out the principles governing extraterritoriality, and by providing recommendations for governments, courts, international organisations and businesses on methods for minimising costs and conflicts associated with extraterritorial exercises of jurisdiction. The report focuses in particular on competition and antitrust law, tort law, criminal law, securities law, insolvency law, bribery and corruption.

The report is also available to download as a pdf, free of charge.

Criminal Law Section Scholarship

This year the Criminal Law Section will again award a scholarship to a young lawyer who wishes to participate in the IBA Annual Conference, but may find financial difficulties in doing so. The scholarship award for 2010 includes the following:

• Free registration for the IBA 2010 Annual Conference, 3-8 October 2010, Vancouver, Canada.
• A contribution towards travel costs to the conference.
  
• A contribution towards accommodation costs while attending the conference.
  
• Two years’ free membership of the IBA, LPD and PPID including membership of one committee within the awarding section and one free PPID committee.
  
• A waiver of either the next IBA Annual Conference registration fee or the registration fee of one of the chosen committees' specialist conferences.
  
• Free membership of the Scholarship Alumni Group.

The deadline for submissions is Monday 26 April 2010.

For further information please download the Scholarship Application Form here.