The Fifteenth Investment Treaty Forum Public Conference

Recent Developments in Investment Arbitration Procedure

Friday 10 September 2010 09:00 to 17:00

Location

The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL

Participants

Keynote Address:
Doak Bishop, King & Spalding LLP, Houston

Welcome:
N Jansen Calamita, Director, Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law

Chairs:
Professor Luca Radicati di Brozolo, Bonelli Erede Pappalardo Studio Legale and Catholic University, Milan
Veijo Heiskanen, Lalive, Geneva
Professor Robert Volterra, Latham Watkins LLP, London

Speakers:
Christophe Douaire de Bondy, Trade Law Bureau, Canadian Departments of Justice and of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa
Emmanuelle Cabrol, Herbert Smith LLP, Paris
Yuliya S Chernykh, ARBITRADE Law Company, Kiev
Alejandro Escobar, Baker Botts LLP, London
Professor Vaughan Lowe QC, Essex Court Chambers, Chichele Professor of International Law and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
Sébastien Manciaux, Maître de conférences à l'Université de Bourgogne
Mahnaz Malik, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Sylvia Noury, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP,London
Jakob Ragnwaldh, Mannheimer Swartling, Stockholm
Lucy Reed, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, New York
Sebastian Seelmann-Eggebert, Latham Watkins LLP, Hamburg
Professor Jarrod Wong, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law

This conference assembles leading experts from government, private practice and academia to examine important developments and emerging trends in investment arbitration. Among the topics under consideration will be developments in the use of provisional measures in investment arbitration, the practicalities of working with witnesses and experts, and the representation of States before ICSID tribunals. Also considered will be on-going developments with respect to the participation of non-parties in investor-State arbitrations and the evolving rules pertaining to the transparency of ICSID proceedings. Finally, the conference will address the perennial concern of costs and fees, examining mechanisms to cut down on costs and time; the issues of obtaining security for costs; and trends in the awarding of costs in investment arbitration and whether investment arbitration is or should be different from commercial arbitration. The conference will provide an ample opportunity for discussion among panellists and attendees and it is hoped that through this dialogue some best practices on procedural matters may be distilled.

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

Topics include:

Cost-awards: are there Differences between Commercial and Investment Treaty Arbitration
Transparency and Investment Arbitration
States' Representation before ICSID Tribunals
Mechanisms to cut down on costs and time; where can savings be made?
Security for Costs in Investment Treaty Arbitration
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