Visiting Researcher Mykolas Kirkutis from Lithuania
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Webinar: Law in Public Interest: Collective Redress, Funding & Climate Regulation
Our Vici team organises an online seminar titled ‘Law in the Public Interest: Collective Redress, and Litigation Funding and Climate Change Regulation’ on 19 November from 15-17 hrs (CET).
The event will explore the intersections between legal frameworks and the public interest in a time of increasing concerns about climate change, corporate responsibility, and the cost barriers to pursuing collective justice. As climate change becomes a global priority, regulatory frameworks and climate litigation are holding governments and corporations accountable for their environmental impact. Collective redress and litigation funding also fulfil this role and are gaining prominence in recent years with the adoption of legislation such as the EU Representative Actions Directive and the Dutch WAMCA and with high-profile cases like the Post Office litigation in the UK.
Esteemed speakers are: Eva van der Zee (University of Hamburg, Germany) on Behavioural Insights on Climate Change Law; Koen Rutten (Finch, Netherlands) on Is Funding Collective Litigation still Affordable? and Flora Page (23ES, United Kingdom) on What the Bates v Post Office Litigation reveals about the Pros and Cons of Litigation Funding. Introduction and moderation by Adrian Cordina and Xandra Kramer
Register before 19 November for free here.
Published: September 1, 2023
From September till December 2023, we host Mykolas Kirkutis as a visiting researcher at our team and Erasmus School of Law. Mykolas is a lecturer and PhD student at Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania) and a judge assistant at Supreme Court of Lithuania. He is working on his PhD thesis (Problems of compatibility between public policy as a non-recognition clause in cross-border civil cases and the effectiveness of the right to a fair trial) and has an LLM in law (Vilnius University, Lithuania).
Mykolas reported: “I came to Erasmus University Rotterdam for a 3-month traineeship under the Erasmus+ programme. Halfway through my traineeship, I can safely say that it was an excellent choice of traineeship place. The biggest benefit of this internship is the access to the Sanders Law Library in Rotterdam and the Peace Palace Library in the Hague, which allowed me to enrich my thesis. During the internship I also have great opportunity to discuss my ideas with one of the top experts in the field of Private International Law – prof. Xandra Kramer. As well as I am
happy to have the opportunity to gain experience from my team mates from Erasmus University Rotterdam.”