Transnational Commercial Leasing Law Project - in association with AWG

About
Symposium
Student Associates
Project Lead
Irish Contacts Group

The School of Law is delighted to announce, in association with the AWG and its Irish Contact Group the establishment of a transnational commercial and leasing law project.

About

AWG through its Irish Contact Group, and in association with the School of Law, will establish a transnational commercial and leasing law project (the project) effective 1 September 2024.

The project, which will run for an initial period of three years, will focus on the study of (1) legal development and theory, (2) transactional and dispute resolution practices, (3) public policy, and (4) legal education. It will have an inter-disciplinary aspect (business, economics, political science, and international affairs).

A ‘participatory advisory board’ for the project will be formed with senior leaders from the Dublin legal community and select others. It will be actively involved in the project. As will students from Trinity College Dublin.

Symposia

First Symposium

The first symposium under the project on the ‘past, present, and future of the international leasing of personal property’ was held on 16 January 2025. It will have these sub-parts:

(a) nature, history, and economic impact of leasing

(b) liability of lessors and lessee for damage to third parties caused by leased property

(d) insolvency issues in international leasing transactions

It was attended by members of the project’s participatory advisory board (PAB), which include representatives from leading legal and commercial Irish companies, AWG’s Irish contact group, Trinity College Dublin faculty members, and all student associates (see below).

Second Symposium

The second symposium under the project – on ‘courts and transnational commercial law’ – will be held in June 2025.

Related event

In conjunction with the second symposium, an international moot court event on under the Cape Town Convention and its Aircraft Protocol (CTC) will be held. That event (Irish CTC moot), on a cross-border insolvency problem, will be a friendly between teams fielded by Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin Faculties of Law.

The Irish CTC moot will be held under the auspices of the Cape Town Convention Academic Project (CTCAP), which is a joint undertaking between UNIDROIT and the University of Cambridge, with the Aviation Working Group as a founding sponsor.

Student Associates

The School of Law is pleased to announce the appointment of six Student Associates on the School's Transnational Commercial and Leasing Law Project. The students are: Keelan Daye, Yunqiu Ma, Ewhomazine Otuorimuo, Alejandro Fredes Paredes, Julia Tomasiak and Anna Witte. The project is being led by Adjunct Professor Jeffrey Wool. The six Associates are postgraduate students on the School's LLM programme and will work with mentors in A&L Goodbody, Arthur Cox, Mason Hayes & Curran, Mathesons and McCann FitzGerald in preparation for the Project’s first symposium.

Project Lead

AWG’s secretary general, Jeffrey Wool, will lead the project, working with others in the Irish Contact Group and Trinity College Dublin, including in his capacity as an adjunct professor in the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin.