A Community Development Agreement or CDA can be a vital mechanism for ensuring that local communities benefit from large-scale investment projects, such as mines or forestry concessions. In formalizing agreements between an investor and a project-affected community, CDAs set out how the benefits of an investment project will be shared with local communities. In some… read more
Since the 1990s, international investment law has been rapidly evolving, resulting in a complex web of over 3,000 investment treaties. These treaties have been used to challenge a wide range of host state actions and inactions that have allegedly negatively affected foreign investors or investments. Those challenges, in turn, expose host states to potentially significant… read more
Date: October 8, 2015, 6:30-8:00pm – Reception following
Location: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 103
Date: September 21-22, 2015
Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Date: September 21, 2015, 5:30-7:00pm – Reception following
Location: Open Society Foundations, 224 W 57th St, New York
In this report commissioned by the Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), CCSI examined the different types of legal regimes governing mining projects in 18 countries to gain a better understanding of mining deals granted and negotiated under different minerals regimes. CCSI compared the… read more
Date: June 8-19, 2015
Location: Columbia University
Date: June 4, 2015, 6:00pm-8:00pm
Location: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Annex
Date: April 15, 2015, 10:00-11:30am
Location: Columbia University, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Date: April 13, 2015 1:00-5:00pm. Reception to follow.
Location: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, 51 West 52nd Street, NY, NY 10019