This is to announce this academic year’s first session of the Forum of the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law, entitled “Facebook’s Libra in the context on international transactions and the CISG”. The event will take place on Monday, September 23rd, 6.00 – 8.00 pm, in the Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, Furman Hall 900 (245 Sullivan Street, New York, NY 10012).
It is a great pleasure to be able to announce that on the occasion of that session, Prof. Sebastian Omlor will give a talk on the aforementioned topic.
Sebastian Omlor, who holds an LL.M. degree from NYU, an s.j.d. and an LL.M. degree from Saarland University in Germany, is full professor and Director of the Institute for Comparative Law at Marburg University in Germany. At Marburg University, he holds the chair for private law, commercial and business law, banking law and comparative law. His research also focuses on banking and company law, the law of payment and financial services, the law of digitalisation, and the legal concept of money. As a legal expert, he advised, inter alia, the German parliament (Bundestag) and the German Federal Ministry of Finance.