ArbitralWomen, VIAC and KNOETZL conducted the continued workshop on unconscious bias on Friday, 21 October 2016. The program was remarkably well attended by business leaders, government officials and a variety of professional service providers. Speakers discussed how to manage unconscious bias in the workplace and in international arbitration, and demonstrated how to apply this knowledge in the…

On 24 October 2016, Judith Schacherreiter gave a lecture at a conference on banking law at the University of Vienna  on the subject of responsibility attaching to the prospectus in private international law. Dr. Schacherreiter examinded how the prospectus directive has harmonised the obligation to publish a prospectus and established the country-of-origin principle for its…

On October 10, 2016, the Working Group Compliance of Transparency International, Austrian Chapter, hosted a compliance event titled “Awful but Lawful Practices”. Professor Nikos Passas, who teaches at the International Anti-Corruption Academy, provided his key note speech focusing on the need to act in a social responsible way and not only to comply with the…

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