8h00 – 8h20

Registration

8h20 – 8h30

Welcoming Speakers and Delegates

8h30 – 8h45

Opening Speech

Prof. Dr. Mai Hong Quy

Rector of Ho Chi Minh City University of Law

Session 1

Environmental impacts on political and social stability

Co-chairs:

Representative of the Board of Directors of Ho Chi Minh City University of Law

Dr. Duong Thanh An (Director of Policy and Law Department, Vietnam Environment Administration)

Dr. Michael Parsons (Policy Adviser to the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment)

8h45 – 9h00

Identifying potential risks to environmental security in Vietnam and some legal issues

Dr. Pham Van Vo

Faculty of Commercial Law, Ho Chi Minh City University of Law

9h00 - 9h15

Applying key lessons from international experience in modernizing Vietnam's system for environmental protection

Dr. Michael Parsons

Policy Adviser to the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment

9h15 – 9h30

Environmental pollution control in Singapore: the intersection of torts, statutes, regulations and community norms

Prof. Gary Chan Kok Yew

Singapore Management University

9h30 – 10h00

Discussion

10h00 – 10h15

Photo session

10h015 – 10h30

Tea-break

10h30 - 10h45

Regional environmental security: the valuable messages to the Asian countries based on Japanese experience for climate change, air pollution, hazardous and chemical wastes, and sea pollution

                                           Assoc. Prof. Kanami Ishibashi

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

(TUFS)

10h45 – 11h00

The law on the rights to have access to environmental information in Vietnam

Dr. Thai Thi Tuyet Dung

Faculty of Administrative Law, Ho Chi Minh City University of Law

11h00 - 11h30

Discussion

11h30 - 13h30

Lunch

Session 2

Environmental impacts on economic development

Co-chairs:

Representative of the Board of Directors of Ho Chi Minh City University of Law

Dr. Pham Van Vo(Ho Chi Minh City University of Law)

Prof. Gary Chan Kok Yew (Singapore Management University)

13h30 – 13h45

Fighting the Giants: Taking Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Damage through Indonesian Courts’ Decisions

Dr. Arie Afriansyah

University of Indonesia

13h45 – 14h00

Impacts of the construction of hydroelectric plant in the Mekong river on Vietnam's environmental security – some legal issues

PhD Candidate Vo Trung Tin

Faculty of Commercial Law, Ho Chi Minh City University of Law

14h00 – 14h15

Legal complexity and institutional arrangement challenges in designing a mandatory greenhouse gas emissions reporting scheme in Thailand

                                                                  LLM. Chacrit Sitdhiwej

                  Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, Thailand

14h15 – 14h45

Discussion

14h45 – 15h00

Tea-break

15h00 – 15h15

Legal issues on import control of exotic species in Vietnam

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vu Thi Duyen Thuy

Faculty of Economic Law, Hanoi University of Law

15h15 – 15h30

Development of mediation mechanism for environmental disputes in               Vietnam

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Viet Dung

Faculty of International Law, Ho Chi Minh City University of Law

15h30 – 16h15

Discussion

16h15 – 16h30

Closing Remarks

                                                                    Prof. Dr. Mai Hong Quy

Rector of Ho Chi Minh City University of Law