Fall 2015 International Investment Law and Policy Speaker Series
Date: September 24, 2015 – February 4, 2016 12:10-1:00pm
Location: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 546
Fall 2015
International Investment Law and Policy Speaker Series
Moderated by: Ian Laird (Crowell & Moring LLP), Grant Hanessian (Baker & McKenzie LLP) and Kabir Duggal (Baker & McKenzie LLP)
All talks took place in Jerome Greene Hall, Room 546, 12:10 – 1pm
September 24th
KABIR DUGGAL
Senior Associate, Baker & McKenzie LLP
GRANT HANESSIAN
Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP
“Is Investment Arbitration Racist?”
October 8th
ZACHARY DOUGLAS, QC
Barrister, Matrix Chambers; Associate Professor, International Law, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
“The Impact of Investment Treaties on State Governance: First Insights from an Empirical Study”
October 15th
CAROLYN B. LAMM
Partner, White & Case LLP
“Investor-State Dispute Settlement and the Legitimacy Debate: Is a Global Investment Court the Solution?”
View video here.
View PPT presentation here.
November 5th
SIMON LESTER
Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute
JULIAN KU
Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, Hofstra Law School
“ISDS, Free Markets, and the Rule of Law”
View video here.
November 12th
DAVID GAUKRODGER
Senior Legal Adviser, OECD Investment Division
“Investment Treaties as Corporate Law: Shareholder Protection and Shareholder Claims for Reflective Loss”
February 4th (2016)
ROBERT HOWSE
Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law, New York University School of Law
“Courting the Critics of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: The EU Proposal for a Judicial System for Investment Disputes”
View video here.
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