The Fourteenth Investment Treaty Forum Public Conference

Do Not Pass Go: Jurisdictional and Other Objections Available to Respondent States

Friday 7 May 2010 09:00 to 17:00

Location

Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, 10 Thornhaugh St, London, WC1H 0XG
 

Participants

Keynote speaker:
Jan Paulsson, Freshfields, Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Paris

Speakers:
Alvaro C. Galindo, Director, International Litigation and Arbitration Unit,
Solicitor General's Office, Republic of Ecuador
Oscar M. Garibaldi, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington D.C.
Charles Kaplan, Herbert Smith LLP, Paris
Toby Landau QC, Essex Court Chambers, London
Professor Vaughan Lowe QC, Essex Court Chambers, Chichele Professor of International Law and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
Professor Andrew Newcombe, University of Victoria
Professor Alain Pellet, University Paris Ouest, Nanterre-La Défense; Member and former Chairman, International Law Commission of the United Nations; Associé de l'institut de droit international
Domenico Di Pietro, Chiomenti Studio Legale, Rome
Professor Dr August Reinisch, University of Vienna
Professor Philippe Sands QC, Matrix Chambers and University College London
Professor Dr Christoph Schreuer, Wolf Theiss, Vienna
Ondrej Sekanina, Sekanina Legal, Prague
Audley Sheppard, Clifford Chance LLP, London
Professor M. Sornarajah, National University of Singapore
Todd Weiler, www.naftaclaims.com, London, Canada

The aim of this ITF Public Conference is to review and analyse important developments in recent cases on jurisdiction by investment treaty tribunals. These developments include illegality (Fraport), fraud (El Salvador) and other instances of an investor's misconduct. Other topics for consideration will also include piercing the corporate veil (TSA Spectrum), unmeritorious and abusive claims (Phoenix), restrictive dispute resolution provisions (old China and Soviet BITs e.g. Tza Yap Shum and Renta 4) and the ongoing debate about what type of investments should not benefit from treaty protection. The speakers will discuss how and why these restrictions have affected the jurisdiction of tribunals.

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This event is free for Investment Treaty Forum Members; however you must register to attend this event.

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