crossborder investigation and enforcement--Canada and United State

Ladd, Thomas A.

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Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Canada-United States Law JournalVolume 26 | Issue Article 43January 2000Introduction: Cross-Border Canada/U.S.Cooperation in Investigations and EnforcementActions Vis a Vis Private PartiesThomas A. LaddFollow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cusljThis Speech is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Journals at Case Western Reserve University School of Law Scholarly Commons.It has been accepted for inclusion in Canada-United States Law Journal by an authorized administrator of Case Western Reserve University School ofLaw Scholarly Commons.Recommended CitationThomas A. Ladd, Introduction: Cross-Border Canada/U.S. Cooperation in Investigations and Enforcement Actions Vis a Vis Private Parties,26 Can.-U.S. L.J. 269 (2000)Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cuslj/vol26/iss/43INTRODUCTION: CROSS-BORDER CANADA/U.S.COOPERATION IN INVESTIGATIONS AND ENFORCEMENTACTIONS VIS A VIS PRIVATE PARTIESThomas A. LaddI am Thomas Ladd. I am presiding over our closing session this afternoonthat considers "Cross Border Canada/U.S. Cooperation in Investigations andEnforcement Actions vis A vis Private Parties." The communications tools inuse as we plunge toward a new millennium facilitate the formation ofcommercial relationships and business transactions at an ever-acceleratingrate. These transactions may be of a business-to-business nature, a business-to-consumer nature, or even a consumer-to-consumer nature. Theinformation highway has no national border checkpoints. Some portion ofbusiness transactions has for centuries formed the basis of law school casebooks concerning commercial issues ranging from contracts to fraud.Commerce in an electronic form is unlikely to diminish that ratio.Our guest speakers offer guidance for enforcement of rules ofcommercial conduct where the cause may reside on one side of the borderand the affect on the opposite side of the Canada/U.S. border. Presenting aperspective looking southward is Konrad von Finckenstein, Q. C. Konradserves as Commissioner of Competition for the Canadian CommissionBureau. Previously, Mr. Von Finckenstein served as Assistant DeputyMinister for Business Law at Industry Canada and Justice Canada, asAssistant Deputy Minister for Free Trade Policy and operations at theDepartment of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, as Assistant DeputyAttorney General for Tax Law, and as coordinator for the implementation ofNAFTA. Mr. von Finckenstein holds a B.A. in Political Science fromCarleton University, Ottawa, with Honors, and an LL.B. degree fromQueen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He is a member of the Ontario Bar,and he was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1984.Presenting a northward looking view is Debra Valentine, GeneralCounsel for the Federal Trade Commission. Previously, Ms. Valentine wasclerk for the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals for Judge Arlin M. Adams, apartner in the Washington law firm of O'Melveny & Myers, a DeputyDirector of Policy Planning for the Federal Trade Commission, and anAssistant Director for the International Antitrust at the FTC. Ms. Valentine isa magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University. She received her J.D.2691Ladd: Introduction: Cross-Border Canada/U.S. Cooperation in InvestigatiPublished by Case Western Reserve University School of Law Scholarly Commons, 2000270 CANADA-UNITED STATES LAW JOURNAL [Vol. 26:269 2000]from Yale University where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Shewas a Fulbright Scholar in Munich from 1976 to 1977.Please join me in welcoming the return of Ms. Valentine to Cleveland,the city of her birth, to share her perspective on cross border enforcement forprivate parties.2Canada-United States Law Journal, Vol. 26 [2000], Iss. , Art. 43https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cuslj/vol26/iss/43

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