With the sponsorship renewed by Edwin Coe LLP from 2018, the Academic Forum has been able to offer young scholars travel grants to attend its conferences. The sponsorship has also permitted for an annual lecture to be given by a scholar of international repute. These have included Professor Jay Westbrook (University of Texas, the United States), Gabriel Moss QC (3/4 South Square, Gray’s Inn, the United Kingdom), The Hon Mr Justice Ian Kawaley (Supreme Court of Bermuda), Professor Karsten Schmidt (President of the Bucerius Law School, Germany), Professor Bob Wessels (Leiden Law School, the Netherlands), Professor Ian Fletcher QC (University College London, United Kingdom), Professor Rosalind Mason (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Professor Axel Flessner (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany), His Honour Judge Ignacio Sancho (Spanish Supreme Court), Professor Bruce A. Markell (Northwestern University Chicago) and Professor Frank Verstijlen (Groningen Law School, the Netherlands).
In Copenhagen, the annual lecture was renamed "The Gabriel Moss Memorial Lecture" in honour and memory of the late Gabriel Moss, QC. The first such lecture was given by Professor Ignacio Tirado (UNIDROIT), the second took place in Dublin by Professor Irene Lynch Fannon (University College Cork and Matheson LLP, Ireland), the third in Dubrovnik by Professor Jasnica Garašič (University of Zagreb, The Faculty of Law, Croatia), the fourth in Amsterdam by Emeritus Professor Bob Wessels (University of Leiden) and the fifth in Sorrento by Professor Stefania Bariatti.
These lectures and many of the presentations at the Academic Forum conferences have been collected in the conference proceedings booklets that have been regularly published since the publications series arising from conferences was inaugurated in 2009. The intention is that conference proceedings booklets will be published from all of the conferences listed above and will accompany other publications in the Technical Series produced by INSOL Europe and the Judicial Wing. Overall, the publications are intended to form a comprehensive report of the conferences and contain accounts of recent research in the insolvency field useful for academics, judges, policy-makers and practitioners alike.