Stability and Change in International Investment Law – Assessing the Risks and  Challenges for the Next 25 Years

Three round tables with thought leaders from around the world to assess the future of international investment law and dispute resolution

Organized jointly by the AUWCL Center on International Commercial Arbitration (Washington, D.C.) and the Institut Suisse de Droit Comparé (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Panel 1
Investment Protection Regime: What’s in Store for the Coming 25 Years?
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

See recording here.

Moderator: Krista Nadakavukaren, Vice-Director, Institut Suisse de Droit Compare, Lausanne

Panelists:

Martina Polasek, Secretary General, ICSID
Alejandro Carballo Leyda, Université Paris 1; former General Counsel, Energy Charter Treaty
Güneş Ünüvar, Counsel, Özgür Ünüvar Bakiler and member of the Steering Committeee of the Academic Forum of UNCITRAL Working Group III
Vincent Beyer, Associate Expert in Legal Affairs at UNCTAD, Geneva

Panel 2
The Industrialized Economies’ Response to the Transformations in International Investment Law
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

See recording here.

Moderator: Horacio A. Grigera Naón, Director, Center on International Commercial Arbitration, AUWCL
Panelists:

Jansen Calamita, Head and Research Associate Professor, International Economic Law and Policy, Centre for International Law, Faculty of Law at National University of Singapore
Ursula Kriebaum, Professor of International Law, University of Vienna
Lauren Mandell, Partner, WilmerHale, Washington, DC; former Deputy Assistant US Trade Representative for Investment, USTR
Amb. Thomas Zimmermann, Delegate of the Federal Council for Trade Agreements and head of the Special Foreign Economic Service Division in the Foreign Economic Affairs Directorate, Switzerland

Panel 3
The Developing Countries’ Response to the Transformations in International Investment Law
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

See recording here. 

Moderator: Bjorn Arp, Assistant Director, Center on International Commercial Arbitration, AUWCL
Panelists:

Fernando Tupa, Partner, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt& Mosle LLP
Nagla Nassar, Senior Partner at NassarLaw, El Cairo
Prabhash Ranjan, Professor of Law, Jindal University                     
Makane Moïse Mbengue, Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva and Director of the Department of International Law and International Organization
Prom Savada, Partner, Rajah & Tann Sok & Heng Law Office, Cambodia

Please register for online panels here.

 

Co-organizer: Institut suisse de droit comparé

With a support of International Trade & Investment Law Society 

Media Partner: TDM