Charles Booth
Director, Institute of Asian-Pacific Business Law (IAPBL)
William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Special Counsel, Sheppard Mullin
Senior Advisor, Burford Capital
Monday, February 6, 2017
12:15 a.m.-2:00 p.m., Vanderbilt Hall, Room 208
40 Washington Square South, NY, NY 10012
R.S.V.P. is required.
Lunch will be served.
Professor Booth (BA, Yale University, 1981, summa cum laude; JD Harvard Law School, 1984, cum laude) is a Professor of Law at the Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai‘i and the Founding Director of the Institute of Asian-Pacific Business Law (IAPBL). He taught in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong from 1989 to 2005, where he also served as the Director of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL) from 2000-2005.
Professor Booth’s primary research interests are comparative and cross-border insolvency and commercial law, Hong Kong and Chinese insolvency law reform, and the development of insolvency and commercial law infrastructures in Asia. He has authored/co-authored more than 60 publications, which have been published in 11 jurisdictions. He co-authored: A Global View of Business Insolvency Systems (2010); the Hong Kong Corporate Insolvency Manual (3rd ed, 2015); and the Hong Kong Personal Insolvency Manual (2nd ed, 2010; 3rd ed, forthcoming 2017).
Please R.S.V.P. by Friday, February 3. Otherwise we cannot estimate the amount of food required.
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