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February 2020
Solitary Confinement
Speaker: Kathryn Marshall Ali
Solitary confinement is widely used in the United States. Most prisoners on death row are automatically – and permanently – housed in isolation for 23-24 hours per day, for years on end. As Justice Kennedy noted in a recent concurring opinion: “Too often, discussion in the legal academy and among practitioners and policymakers concentrates simply on the adjudication of guilt or innocence. Too easily ignored is the question of what comes next. Prisoners are shut away—out of sight, out of…
Find out more »January 2020
Immigration in the Age of Disruption
Speaker: Austin T. Fragomen, Jr.
Austin T. Fragomen, Jr. is a partner and chairman of the executive committee of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy, LLP, an AMLaw 100 firm specializing in global immigration law with offices in 25 countries. He earned his law degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University. Mr. Fragomen serves as Chairman of the Business Advisory Committee to the U.N. Global Forum on Migration and Development and as Vice Chairman of…
Find out more »December 2019
Becoming a Lawyer: Discovering and Defining Your Professional Persona
Professor Toni Jaeger-Fine will discuss her new book, Becoming a Lawyer: Discovering and Defining your Professional Persona. Our success—or lack thereof—is determined largely by a range of attitudes and behaviors over which each of us has complete control. She will discuss foundations of a robust professional persona, followed by elements of professionalism from the inside (self-management) and professionalism with the outside (relationships). The book’s main message is that with the right amount of intentionality and dedication, each of us can achieve…
Find out more »November 2019
Data Protection and Privacy in Canada: What Organizations Doing Business in Canada Need to Know
Speaker: Stephen Burns, Matthew Flynn and Ruth Promislow, Partners, Bennett Jones LLP
This presentation will be a review of the regulatory landscape, including the revisions to the data protection law on the horizon, as well as the scope of exposure under Canadian case law on privacy and data security issues. A review of key aspects of Canadian law that may arise in commercial transactions will also be part of this program. Stephen Burns: Practice focuses on energy, utility and infrastructure related technology, procurement and outsourcing, technology transfers, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions,…
Find out more »AFLA Members’ Fall Cocktail Reception
The reception is open only to AFLA members and is free of charge. Please note that Law Firm Members include the principal member and a number of other lawyers from the firm according to their membership category. If you are not already a member of AFLA, but would like to join, please use the link below.
Find out more »October 2019
Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights – What You Need to Know
Speaker: Deborah Enix-Ross, Debevoise & Plimpton
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council in June 2011, are a set of guidelines for States and companies to prevent, address and remedy human rights abuses committed in business operations. The UNGPs rest on three pillars: States have a duty to protect people from human rights abuses by third parties, including business. Business has a responsibility to respect human rights, which means to avoid infringing on the rights of…
Find out more »September 2019
U.S. Investment Adviser Registration for Non-U.S. Firms
Speaker: Bertrand C. Fry and Shusmita Chowdhury, Pryor Cashman LLP
Non-U.S. asset managers that provide, or are considering providing, services to U.S. clients (or to investment vehicles with U.S. investors) need to be aware of the comprehensive registration regime applicable under the U.S. Investment Advisers Act. This presentation will outline the availability and limitations of the “foreign investment adviser” exemption, as well as other ways that non-U.S. investment advisers may want to consider addressing U.S. regulatory requirements, including “umbrella” registration and Unibanco letters.
Bertrand C. Fry is a partner at Pryor Cashman, where he co-heads the Investment Management and FinTech Groups. Prior to joining the firm, he served for 14 years in the legal department of the D. E. Shaw Group, serving as its acting General Counsel during the first half of 2007. He started his career at Paul, Weiss, and was a senior U.S. counsel in Dechert’s London office from 2001 to 2003, where his clients included both U.S. and non-U.S. investment advisers. Over the course of his career, Bert has launched and advised on a broad array of U.S. and non-U.S. alternative investment vehicles and their managers.
Shusmita Chowdhury is a member of Pryor Cashman’s Investment Management Group, where she advises institutional investors on their investments in domestic and international private equity funds, real estate funds, hedge funds, venture capital funds, fund of funds and other accounts. She also has extensive experience counseling clients on secondary fund investments and assisting fund sponsors on fund formation and ongoing investment matters, having previously worked in-house for a Swiss private equity firm.
Find out more »June 2019
AFLA Annual Spring Reception and Membership Event
Speaker: Jeh Johnson, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Honored guest and speaker: Jeh Johnson, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and former United States Secretary of Homeland Security. Secretary Johnson shared his observations on today's homeland security and put the current situation at the southern border in a legal and historical context.
Find out more »May 2019
The United States and the International Criminal Court (AFLA Luncheon and Annual Meeting)
Speaker: Jennifer Trahan, Professor, NYC Center For Global Affairs
In this timely discussion of the work of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) we will focus on the US relationship to the court that has varied among presidential administrations. The current administration has banned the ICC Prosecutor from travel to the United States. Our speaker also will discuss the recent dismissal of the ICC’s Afghanistan preliminary examination that would have addressed conduct by US nationals in Afghanistan but that is no longer proceeding. Jennifer Trahan is Clinical Professor of Global…
Find out more »April 2019
Enforcing Judgments and Arbitration Awards against a State: Recent Developments in French and European Law
Speaker: François Ameli, Partner, CKR Law in Paris
Since 2016, there has been a dramatic change in French law on the issue of enforcing judgments and arbitration awards against states and state entities. French law and French courts have increasingly taken into account the protection of states’ assets against so-called ‘vulture funds’, i.e. funds that invest in distressed securities usually (but not always) held against sovereign debtor governments. As a consequence of this policy, enforcement against states or state entities requires a prior and specific court order that…
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