Since 1996, international law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, together with Humboldt University of Berlin, has been hosting the annual International Berlin Business and Trade Law Conference. The one-day conference invites representatives from the academic, business and political world to engage in dialogue, forging a link between academic research and business practice.

This years' event topic is "New Interventionism? State Responsibility and State Action in Times of Financial and Economic Crisis".

Key Note Speech: Henri de Castries, CEO AXA

Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Stefan Grundmann, LL.M., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Robert F. Hoyt, Former General Counsel of the United States Department of the Treasury
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Ulrich Immenga, WilmerHale
Dr. Elke König, Hannover
Dr. Hans Reckers, Mitglied des Vorstands der Deutschen Bundesbank
Dr. Thomas Schäfer, Staatssekretär im Hessischen Ministerium der Finanzen
Dr. Hartmut Schüning, CFO Q-Cells SE
Prof. Dr. Christine Windbichler, LL.M., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Moderators:
Prof. Dr. Christoph G. Paulus, LL.M., Dekan der Juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Hanns-Eberhard Schleyer, WilmerHale
Matthias Wissmann, WilmerHale