Tomorrow's Berkman Luncheon Series: Pedro DeMiguel-Asensio

Pedro De Miguel-Asensio is Professor of Private International Law at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and will speak to the Berkman community about the European Union’s approach to the regulation of international consumer contracts and its impact on US firms doing on-line business with European consumers. He has published extensively on electronic commerce and international business law. His last books (available at the ILS Library of HLS) are “International Transfer of Technology Contracts” (in Spanish) (2nd. ed., 2000), “Internet Business Law” (3rd ed, 20002 –the leading treatise in Spanish in that field-), “Legal Issues of Cross-Border Advertising” (in Spanish) (2005) and “Electronic Commerce Law” (in Spanish, forthcoming) to be published in Mexico DF, focusing on the impact of the EU and US models to regulate e-commerce on the Mexican legal system. He teaches courses on conflict-of-laws, international litigation and electronic commerce. He has lectured widely on those topics at universities in Europe and Latin America and has advised a number of organizations. He is Secretary of the Editorial Board of the Spanish Review of International Law. He received his law degree (1990) and earned a Ph.D. cum laude (1995) from Complutense University of Madrid. He received his LLM degree from the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) (1991). He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the European Law Research Center (HLS) and a Fellow of the Real Colegio Complutense (Cambridge, MA).

To find out more about Pedro De Miguel-Asensio, visit: http://www.ucm.es/info/derinter/demiguelasensio.htm

DeMiguel-Asensio's talk is part of the Berkman Luncheon Series, and will take place Tuesday, September 20, at 12:30pm in Berkman’s conference room.  The Berkman Center is located in Baker House at 1587 Massachusetts Avenue, Harvard Law School.

Tomorrow's luncheon is rsvp only.  If you'd like to attend, rsvp by sending us an email before 2pm today (Monday, Sept. 19).  Space is limited.