Obligations X: Banff 2022

Steve Hedley on 30 November 2020 — Leave a Comment

The tenth conference in the Obligations series will be held in Banff, Canada from July 11-15, 2022. The Obligations conference that was to have been held at Harvard Law School in July 2020 was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic … (more)

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