Commerical Law Reform in Russia and Eurasia

The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the Woodrow Wilson Center's Kennan Institute present an International Conference on:

"Commercial Law Reform in Russia and Eurasia"

Friday-Saturday, 8-9 April 2005
Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
Washington, DC

For additional details and to view the conference program, please visit:http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/events/annual.html

The conference brings together leading legal experts from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, the United States, Canada, and Europe to assess the extent to which the legal infrastructure needed for a competitive market economy has been established and what future regulatory and legal reforms and policies are necessary. This conference is held in honor of Peter Maggs, Professor of Law and Clifford M. and Bette A. Carney Chair in Law, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, for his contribution to the field of legal reform in Russia and other former Soviet nations.

The conference is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to the Kennan Institute at 202-691-4100 or by email to Joseph Dresen at dresenjo@wwic.si.edu.

Cosponsors:
Office of the Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
College of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Center for International Business Education and Research, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
International Programs and Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
International Trade Center, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Center for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison
American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative