Reinsurance Law and International Risk Transfer

You are invited to audit the LLM ‘Reinsurance Law and International Risk Transfer’ module which examines reinsurance contract law and practice, including the following topics:

• Nature and purpose of reinsurance
• Types of reinsurance contracts and insurance-linked securities (ILS)
• Reinsurance placement process, contract formation and documentation
• Role of reinsurance broker
• The duty of fair presentation in the reinsurance context
• Reinsurance contract terms, classification of terms and remedies for breach
• The relationship between the underlying insurance contract and the reinsurance contract
• Claims (including follow the settlements, claims co-operation, aggregation and apportionment)

Details:

Date: Mondays from 3-6pm from 22 January – 25 March, and 4 April 2024

Cost: £3,675

Location: Centre for Commercial Law Studies, 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB

All sessions will be recorded.

Participants must either have an undergraduate level degree in Law or a degree with substantial law content, or a CII RQF Level 3 qualification (or equivalent).

On completion of the module, a Certificate of Attendance will be issued.

Led by Dr Franziska Arnold-Dwyer, who is a Senior Lecturer at the CCLS, the Director of the Insurance, Shipping and Aviation Law Institute and the Director of the Insurance Law LLM.

She is a qualified solicitor and, prior to returning to Academia, she practised law in the Insurance and Reinsurance Litigation Team at Clifford Chance LLP. She is the executive editor and a contributing author of the leading textbook on reinsurance law O’Neill and Woloniecki, ‘The Law of Reinsurance in

England and Bermuda’ (5th ed., 2019, 6th edition forthcoming), contributes on reinsurance law to Westlaw PLC, and is a rapporteur for the Principle of Reinsurance Contract Law project (in co-operation with UNIDROIT).