9th Investment Treaty Forum Public Conference: The Emerging Jurisprudence of International Investment Law

Friday 14 September 2007 09:15 to 16:00

Location

The Mary Ward House, 5-7 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9SN.
 

Participants

Keynote Speaker:

  • Jan Paulsson, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Paris

Conference Co-Chairs:

  • Prof Andrea Bjorklund, UC Davis, School of Law,California
  • Ian A. Laird, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, Washington, D.C.

Participants:

  • Roberto Aguirre Luzi, King & Spalding LLP, Houston
  • Yas Banifatemi, Shearman Sterling, Paris
  • Jeffery Commission, Linklaters, New York
  • Prof Tai-Heng Cheng, New York Law School and Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney LLP, New York
  • Todd Grierson-Weiler, NAFTAClaims.com, Calgary, Alberta
  • Meg Kinnear, International Trade Canada, Ottawa
  • Prof Campbell McLachlan, Law School, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  • Dr Federico Ortino, British Institute of International and Comparative Law
  • J. William Rowley, McMillan Binch Mendelsohn, Toronto and London
  • Anthony Sinclair, Allen & Overy LLP, London
  • Audley Sheppard, Clifford Chance LLP, London
  • Prof Christoph Schreuer, University of Vienna, Law School
  • Prof Brigitte Stern, University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne




This event has been co-organized with Oxford University Press InvestmentClaims.com

Topics include:

  1. Precedent and Control in Investment Treaty Arbitration
  2. Fragmentation and Custom in Investment Treaty Law
  3. Analysis of a Developing Jurisprudence in International Investment Law
  4. Fair and Equitable Treatment
  5. Nationality
  6. Most-Favoured Nation Treatment ("MFN")
  7. Umbrella Clauses

Registration will be from 8:45am and the conference will start at 9:15am promptly.

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