09:00 - 09:05	Welcome Address
Session I: Takeovers Session Chair: Martin Winner (WU Vienna)
09:05 - 09:50	Regulatory legitimacy in EU Takeover Policy Speaker: Alan Dignam (Queen Mary, University of London) Discussant: Blanaid Clarke (Trinity College Dublin)
09:50 - 10:35	Creeping Acquisitions in Europe: Enabling Companies to Be Better Safe than Sorry Speaker: Luca Enriques (University of Oxford) Discussant: Maribel Sáez Lacave (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
10:35 - 11:00	Coffee Break
Session II: Relationship Investors – Issuers Session Chair: Edmund-Philipp Schuster (London School of Economics)
11:00 - 11:45	Investors' duties according to the EU Commission's proposal on shareholder's rights Speakers: Katja Langenbucher (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) Alain Pietrancosta (University of Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne)
11:45 - 12:30	Custody Chains and Remoteness - Disconnecting Investors from Issuers Speaker: Eva Micheler (London School of Economics) Discussant: Pierre-Henri Conac (University of Luxembourg)
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch at WU Mensa
Session III: Market Abuse Session Chair: Rüdiger Veil (Bucerius Law School, Hamburg)
14:00 - 14:45	Market abuse and disclosure of price sensitive information Speaker: Harm-Jan de Kluiver (University of Amsterdam) Discussant: Krszysztof Oplustil (Jagellionen University, Cracow)
14:45 - 15:30	When Market Abuse Rules Violate Human Rights: Grande Stevens v. Italy and the Different Approaches to Double Jeopardy in Europe and in the U.S. Speaker: Marco Ventoruzzo (Bocconi University, Milan / Pennsylvania State University) Discussant: Susan Emmenegger (University of Bern)
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
Session IV: Investor Protection Session Chair: Ulrich Torggler (University of Vienna)
16:00 - 16:45	Investor protection in MiFID II and MiFIR Speaker: Michel Tison (University of Gent) Discussant: Niamh Moloney (London School of Economics)