Events

Fall 2018

International Investment Law and Policy Speaker Series 

Moderated by: Grant Hanessian (Baker McKenzie), Maria Chedid (Arnold & Porter),

and Kabir Duggal (Arnold & Porter)

October 11th – Room 546

PATRICIO GRANE LABAT

Partner, Arnold & Porter, London

“Low-Hanging Fruit: A Realistic Approach to Reforming Investor-State Dispute Settlement”

October 15th – Room 102B

PHILIPPE SANDS, QC

Professor of Law, University College London; Barrister, Matrix Chambers

“What I Have Learned – Ten Years as an Investor-State Arbitrator”

View video here.

October 18th – Room 546

EUGENIO HERNÁNDEZ-BRETÓN

Partner, Baker McKenzie, Caracas

“Trapped Between a Wall and an Empty Shelf: Expropriations, Controls and Other Policies (in Venezuela) under Arbitration and Bilateral Investment Treaties”

Listen to audio recording here.

View PPT presentation here.

November 13th – Room 546

COLIN BROWN

Deputy Head of Unit, Dispute Settlement and Legal Aspects of Trade Policy, DG Trade, European Commission / Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh

“Constructing a Multilateral Investment Court: The Path Ahead”

View video here.

November 15th – Room 546

ANA NOVIK

Head of Investment, OECD

“Trade and Investment Interdependence: Increasing Policy Coherence in the New Business Reality”

View video here.

November 29th – Room 546

ZOE WILLIAMS

International Political Economy Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science

“The Political Economy of Investor-State Disputes”