Pollack Colloquium Room, Furman Hall 900
245 Sullivan Street, New York, NY 10012
6:15 PM - 8:00 PM
This 2010-11 academic year, the Institute for International Law and Justice will continue hosting the very successful NYU Investment Law Forum sessions. The Forum is devoted to the rigorous and critical examination of the increasing jurisprudence that is emerging from investor-state arbitral tribunals, as well as the underlying legal norms, whether in bilateral investment treaties or bilateral or regional trade agreements, that these tribunals are applying. The tribunal awards in investor-state arbitration raise important thematic issues, such as canons of treaty interpretation, the nature of state responsibility including remedies, custom as a source of law, and "fragmentation"-the relationship of investment law to other international legal regimes, whether the WTO or environment or human rights. Through anchoring reflection on these and other fundamental themes in the case law and related legal developments, we seek to engage the relevant academic community but also practitioners, policymakers, and activists.
All sessions will be held in the Pollack Colloquium Room, Furman Hall 900 (245 Sullivan Street, New York, NY 10012), one Monday evening each month through the semester (unless otherwise indicated). Hors d’Oeuvres and refreshments will be available before the presentations (6:00 PM).
Schedule of Sessions (subject to modification)
SPRING 2011
February 7, 2011
The first session in the Spring 2011 semester will be co-hosted with the Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law’s Arbitration Forum, directed by Professor Franco Ferrari.
Guest speakers:
- Mark Kantor, Georgetown University Law Center and Vale Columbia Center for Sustainable International Investment
- David Bigge, U.S. Department of State
Discussants:
- Barry Appleton, Appleton and Associates
- Robert Howse, NYU School of Law
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March 7, 2011
The Effect of BITs on Regulatory Quality and the Rule of Law in Developing Countries - Appendices & Tables
Guest speaker: Cesar E Aranguri, 3L NYU and former Associate in Research, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Discussants:
- Benedict Kingsbury, NYU School of Law
- Pablo Spiller, NYU School of Law & LECG LLC.
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April 11, 2011
International Investment Law and Comparative Public Law: Ways out of the Legitimacy Crisis?
Guest speaker: Dr. Stephan Schill, Senior Research Fellow at Max Planck Institutefor Comparative Public Law and International Law
Discussants:
- Professor Dr. Armin von Bogdandy, Professor of Public Law at the Goethe-Universität, and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, and Director of Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
- Kabir Duggal, Associate in the International Arbitration group at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP.
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Fall 2010 sessions:
September 20, 2010
The first session in the Fall 2010 semester will be co-hosted with the Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law’s Commercial Arbitration Forum, for which it is the inaugural event.
Guest speaker: Emmanuel Gaillard, Shearman & Sterling and University of Paris XII, “The Legal Theory of International Arbitration”
Intoduction for the book The Legal Theory of International Arbitration
Discussants: George A. Bermann, Columbia Law School; and Joseph H. H. Weiler, Visiting Prof. Columbia Law School.
The presentation will be based in part on the introduction to Professor Gaillard’s recent book.
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October 11, 2010
"International Investment Agreements in the UNCTAD World Investment Report 2010"
Panel discussion with Elisabeth Tuerk, UNCTAD Secretariat
World Investment Report 2010, Chapter 3
Webcast (video) (To view the session you will need the RealPlayer software. You may download the FREE software at www.real.com.)
Panel:
Professor José Alvarez, NYU Law School
Dr. Efraim Chalamish, international lawyer and policy adviser
Dr. Americo Beviglia Zampetti, Counsellor and Head of the Economic Section, Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, NY
Nikki Reisch, IILJ Scholar NYU Law School
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November 15, 2010
"Provisional Measures in the ICJ and Investment Treaty Arbitration: Dialogue and Development"
Guest speaker: Donald Donovan, International Litigation Partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and NYU School of Law
Discussants: Professor Robert Howse, NYU Law School and Ingo Venzke, Hauser Research Fellow
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December 6, 2010
"How bad is investor-state arbitration for the development of host countries?"
Guest speaker: Prof. Dr. August Reinisch, University of Vienna
Discussants: Prof. Jose Alvarez, NYU Law School and Luke Eric Peterson, Investment Law Project Affiliateand Publisher of Investment Arbitration Reporter, an online news service.
For more information and to RSVP (we kindly ask you do so at least 5 days in advance to each presentation) write to: iilj@exchange.law.nyu.edu.
For 2009-10 sessions, go to: http://www.iilj.org/research/NYUInvestmentForumS2010.asp
