Ad hoc Tribunals like the »International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991« and the »International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda« (ICTR) are subsidiary agencies of the UN, which are appointed ad hoc for the prosecution of war crimes and other felonies. Hybrid Tribunals rest on supra-national contracts between the UN and the local governments, like in the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) or the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, commonly known as the “Khmer Rouge Tribunal” to try those responsible for the crimes committed during the civil war. All of these Courts were met with extended criticism questioning inter alia their constitutional legality, viz. the application of universal or selective justice eventually describing them as »show trials«.
These critics and all other related questions will be discussed on January 17, 2011, 07:00 pm at the Hörsaal Juridicum II, Schenkenstrasse 8-10, 1010 Vienna – in German – by Susanne Brandstätter (Journalist, Author and Film Maker), Frank Höpfel (Professor for Penal Law, University of Vienna, former Judge at International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991) and Manfred Nowak (Professor for Human Rights Law, University of Vienna, former Judge International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia and former UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment).

On Monday, December 13, 2010, 07:30 pm at Hörsaal Schenkenstraße (Juridicum II), Schenkenstraße 8-10, 1010 Vienna,  Ass.-Prof. Mag. Maxim Bashkatov will analyse the current reforms on securities law in Russia. He was involved in the working group »Conception of the development of legislation on securities and financial transactions« and provides with insights to the work of the group. Professor Bashkatov will inter alia focus on notion of securities in the Russian Civil Code, the application of rules on documentary securities for non-documentary securities in Russian civil legislation and practice of commercial courts. Furthermore, Mag.a Ekaterina Galkova will outline the regulations concerning Initial Public Offers in the Russian Federation. The range of questions to be addressed include definition and aim of IPO, IPO procedure under Russian securities law, underwriting agreement, Greenshoe option,  IPO futures and Perspectives of global IPO market.