The 2010 IBFD Research Students Meeting in Amsterdam is intended only for students who are working on a doctoral thesis; applications from students writing an LLM paper will not be considered. The topic of the thesis should be one of international, EU or comparative tax law. All applications will go through a screening process to ensure that only students carrying out original research of sufficient quality are admitted. To gain the maximum from their participation, the attendees should have already made some progress in their research, have a good grasp of their topic and have a developed hypothesis and line of argument. At the same time, there should still be some open issues. In other words, the research should be at the stage at which external coaching is the most valuable. Thus, applications from students at the very beginning or the very end of their project are likely not to be accepted.

A maximum of 10 students will be admitted, in order to ensure that each student receives individual, in depth coaching and consideration of his/her project. A minimum of 8 registrations of sufficiently high quality is required in order for the meeting to go ahead.

The meeting will be held from 4 - 7 July 2010, in the IBFD office in Amsterdam. Participating students are welcome to stay longer, in order to use the IBFD library. Participating students are expected to attend all the events scheduled as part of the program for the meeting.

The supervisors of the students are also invited to join the meeting and participate in the discussions. Once the agenda of the meeting with all topics is finalized, it will be published online on the IBFD website. University teachers and other academics with a special interest or expertise in the topic wishing to attend and willing to contribute to the discussion are welcome to inquire with the IBFD Academic Coordinator about this possibility until Tuesday 10 June 2010 at the latest. IBFD staff specifically interested or competent in the projects submitted for discussion may also attend.

• Prof. Hugh Ault - Professor of Tax Law at Boston College Law School; Special Adviser to the OECD.
• Prof. Bertil Wiman - Professor of Tax Law at Uppsala University.
• Joanna Wheeler - Principal Academic Associate, IBFD; Member of the IFA Research Sub-Committee.
• Prof. Frans Vanistendael - Academic Chairman IBFD; Professor (em.) of Tax Law at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Director of the European Tax College.
• Prof. María Teresa Soler Roch - Professor of Tax Law at University of Alicante.
• Prof. Eric Kemmeren - Professor of International Tax Law at Tilburg Law School.
• Prof. Rainer Prokisch - Professor of International Tax Law at Maastricht University.

Each student is expected to give a presentation of maximum 45 minutes on his/her research. During their presentation, the students should highlight the most interesting and controversial issues they are studying and introduce some questions or propositions designed to provoke a lively discussion among the participants. The time should be split equally between the student's findings so far and the open issues and questions. If they so wish, students may use PowerPoint for their presentations, but there is no requirement to do so. The presentations will be followed by a round of initial responses from the group followed by a plenary discussion including all participants. These discussions should cover, not only the individual topics presented, but also the common themes and connections among them.

Students wishing to participate in the meeting are required to submit a research summary of a maximum of 5,000 words, outlining what the student wishes to achieve in his/her research, what the student's original contribution to academic doctrine will be, the general hypothesis and line of reasoning, how far the student has progressed with the research and a summary of the research findings to date including unresolved issues and questions that the student would particularly like to discuss. The summary will be the basis on which the selection of participants is made. The summaries will be mailed to all participants and panel members two weeks ahead, and all participants are expected to have read and considered all the summaries before the meeting.

To recognize the contribution of the students, all participants will be granted free access to all of the IBFD's online publications for two months- worth around €3,000. In addition, all participants will receive a 50% discount on IBFD print publications ordered while they are at the IBFD.

In order to apply, send an email with your CV, personal and contact details and your research summary no later than Monday, 3 May 2010 to the IBFD Academic Coordinator: R.Resch@ibfd.org.

No fee will be charged for attending the meeting. Free lunches at the IBFD cantina will be provided during the meeting. Travel, accommodation and other expense have to be borne by the students themselves.

Further information about the meeting, including details regarding accommodation, may be obtained from:
 
Richard Resch
IBFD
PO Box 20237
1000 HE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31-20-554 0177
Email: R.Resch@ibfd.org

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