Investment Treaty Forum Seminar Series

Investment Treaty Forum Seminar Series

The Forum organizes regular seminars inviting key figures from national governments, international organizations, law firms and academia to address Forum Members on selected topics.

Forum Members are warmly encouraged to suggest topics and/or speakers for future seminars.

Past seminars have included:

  • Lisbon Treaty: The Way Forward for Investment Protection, by Jean-François Brakeland and Colin Brown (Baker & McKenzie LLP, January 2010)
  • Most Favoured Nation Clauses: Recent Developments and Prospects, by Alejandro A. Escobar, Luis González García, Samuel Wordsworth (Baker Botts (UK) LLP, October 2009)
  • Interesting Issues on International Economic Affairs, dinner with Dan Price, former Assistant to the President of the United States (Clifford Chance, March 2009)
  • Global Financial Crisis: Implications for Investment Arbitration, by Professor Vaughan Lowe QC, David Hauner, Frank Ilett, Professor Christoph Schreuer (Lovells, February 2009)
  • Causation, Investment Risk and Remedies: Some Recent Developments, by Professor Christopher Greenwood QC, Stephen Fietta, Dr Sergey Ripinsky and Jeffrey Sullivan (Latham & Watkins, November 2008)
  • Lisbon Treaty and the Future of BITs in EU Member States, by Dr Chester Brown, Norah Gallagher, Professor Loukas Mistelis, V V Veeder QC and Professor Takis Tridimas (School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary, UNiversity of London, July 2008)
  • Denial of Justice, by Jan Paulsson, Zachary Douglas and Dr Karim Hafez (Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer, April 2008)
  • Domestic Review of Investment Arbitrations, by George Burn, Dr Veijo Heiskanen, Prof Dr Kaj Hobér, Jean-Christophe Honlet and Toby Landau (Salans, January 2008)
  • Articles on State Responsibility and Investment Arbitration, by Dr Markus Burgstaller, Professor James Crawford, Zachary Douglas and Simon Olleson (BIICL, December 2007)
  • Investment Protection in India, by M P Bharucha, Khawar Qureshi QC, Audley Sheppard, Nish Shetty, Geoffrey Vos QC (BIICL, June 2007)
  • Bolivia's Exit from ICSID: Legal and Practical Consequences of Denouncing the ICSID Convention, by Yas Banifatemi, Alejandro Escobar, Mahnaz Malik, Sylvia Noury (Latham & Watkins, June 2007)
  • Precedent in Investment Arbitration, by Dr Andrés Rigo Sureda, former Deputy General Counsel of the World Bank (Wilmer Hale, April 2007)
  • China and International Investment Law, by Professor Wenhua Shan, Oxford Brooks University and Xi'an Jiaotong University (DLA Piper, April 2007)
  • Energy Investment in Russia, by Graham Coop, General Counsel, Energy Charter Secretariat (Denton Wilde Sapte, January 2007)
  • 2006 Amendments to the ICSID Arbitration Rules, by Antonio Parra, former Deputy Secretary General of ICSID (Covington & Burling, July 2006)
  • US Model BIT, by Andrea Menaker, Chief, NAFTA Arbitration Division (December 2005)