Fall 2017 International Investment Law and Policy Speaker Series

Date: September 19 – November 20, 2017, 12:10-1pm
Location: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room – various

Fall 2017

International Investment Law and Policy Speaker Series 

Moderated by: Ian Laird (Crowell & Moring LLP), Kabir Duggal (Baker McKenzie) and Grant Hanessian (Baker McKenzie)

September 19th – Room 546

LAURENCE BOISSON DE CHAZOURNES

Professor of International Law, University of Geneva

“Changes in the Balance of Rights and Obligations: Towards Investor Responsabilization”

View PPT presentation here.

September 25th – Case Lounge

VLADIMIR KHVALEI

Partner, Baker McKenzie

“Corruption Issues in International Arbitration”

View video here.

View PPT presentation here.

Read two articles by Vladimir Khvalei on proving corruption in international arbitration here and here.

October 2nd – Case Lounge

ANNETTE MAGNUSSON

Secretary General, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce

“Climate Disputes and Sustainable Development in the Energy Sector: Bridging the Enforceability Gap”

View video here.

November 6th – Room 807

FUAD ZARBIYEV

Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute Geneva

“Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things: Investment Treaty-Making and Precedents”

November 13th – Room 807

DAVID BARON

Partner, Crowell & Moring LLP

“The Intersection of Sanctions Law and Investment Disputes”

November 20th – Case Lounge

CARLOS CORREA

Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Industrial Property and Economics, Law Faculty, University of Buenos Aires; Special Advisor on Intellectual Property and Trade of the South Center (Geneva)

“Intellectual Property as a Protected Investment: Implications of Eli Lilly v. Canada”

View video here.

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