Spring 2007 Speaker Series on Foreign Investment & Globalization

Date: February 5 – April 10, 2007
Location, Columbia University, New York

Co-organized by the Center on Global Legal Problems and the Columbia Program on International Investment

February 5, 2007

Jan Paulsson
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Ibrahim Shihata Chair on International Investment Law, University of Dundee
Has “fair and equitable” swallowed indirect expropriation?

February 13, 2007

W. Michael Reisman
Myres S. McDougal Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Foreign investment, national sovereignty and arbitration

March 6, 2007

Daniel M. Price
Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Protection of foreign direct investment under bilateral investment treaties: a contribution to the international rule of law

March 27, 2007

Andrea K. Bjorklund
Acting Professor, University of California, Davis, School of Law
Adjudicatory competition in international economic law

April 10, 2007

Tamara Lothian
Principal, International Strategies Group and Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School
How foreign investment can harm economic growth and how law can come to the rescue