Recent Events

Speaker: Martin T. Hamilton, Tax Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP

Join Martin T. Hamilton for a discussion on the current U.S. income tax treaty landscape. Topics will include a review of changes to the income tax treaties in force, the potential for expansion (and perhaps contraction) of that treaty network, and an overview of certain significant U.S. tax questions arising under those tax treaties that cross-border tax practitioners and their clients should be aware of.

Speaker: Daniel R. Alonso, Adjunct Professor of Law, Cornell Law School and Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (FCPA) was the first law in the world that allowed a sovereign nation to prosecute its citizens and companies for corrupt payments overseas to the foreign officials of other sovereign nations. As groundbreaking as it was, neither the FCPA, nor laws sanctioned by many other countries in the decades since, allow the prosecution of foreign officials (the demand side of bribery), reflecting a policy choice to focus only on the bribe payers, or…

Speaker: Professor Anu Bradford, Columbia Law School

Based on her recent book, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology, Professor Anu Bradford will discuss the three competing regulatory approaches governing the digital economy (the American market-driven model, the Chinese state-driven model, and the European rights-driven regulatory model) and how governments and tech companies navigate the inevitable conflicts that arise when these regulatory approaches collide in the international domain. Each digital empire is advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere…

Speaker: Annmarie Giblin, Partner and Co-Chair of Cybersecurity, Data Management & Privacy Practice at Tarter, Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is poised to disrupt many established areas of law, but none more so than the rapidly emerging area of cybersecurity law. Join Annmarie Giblin for an overview of cybersecurity law which will provide practitioners with the high-level information needed to anticipate and prepare for cybersecurity law’s impact on their practice and their clients. Annmarie will also discuss the impact that AI and cybersecurity law will have on each other and best practices to identify emerging legal issues…

Speaker: Hon. Mark C. Dillon, Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court

Join Justice Dillon for a discussion on the story behind the 1794 case of Glass v Sloop Betsey where the United States Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice John Jay, changed the Law of Nations by asserting federal jurisdiction over international disputes originating on the high seas.

Speaker: Michael W. Galligan, Phillips Nizer LLP

While the United States ("U.S.") has entered into far fewer gift and estate tax treaties than income tax treaties, these treaties are indispensable for U.S. international estate planning as they, among other things, protect many U.S. donors living outside the U.S. and the estates of many U.S. decedents who die abroad against double taxation and, in a number of cases, also provide valuable relief from U.S. estate tax on U.S. situs assets of non-U.S. decedents and their estates. Join Michael…

Speaker: Nancy Hollander, Freedman Boyd Hollander & Goldberg P.A.

The U.S. Constitution provides that all people in the United States and those who come to this country, legally or illegally, will be safe from arbitrary treatment. Has the fear of terrorism and those accused of such crimes led to the erosion of the rule of law and the legal principles and values which underpin the American system of justice? Join Nancy Hollander for a discussion on how the crime of terrorism perverts the US criminal legal system and causes…