Transforming the Investment Treaty System through Joint Termination and Amendment
Date: October 14, 2013 6:30pm – 09:00pm
Location: Chadbourne & Parke, 30 Rockefeller Center, New York, 36th Floor Board Room
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Success in Africa: CEOs, Investment and Development on a Fast Rising Continent
Date: September 17, 2013 6:00pm – 08:00pm
Location: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 106
Memo to the Obama Administration on the Burma Responsible Investment Reporting Requirements
In September 2013, CCSI sent a memo to President Obama and his Administration in response to the first public reports submitted by U.S. companies in compliance with the Burma Responsible Investment Reporting Requirements. The memo applauded the U.S. Government’s efforts to encourage responsible investment in Burma, noting that robust due diligence is essential to ensuring… read more
New UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules on Transparency: Application, Content and Next Steps
This paper discusses the UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency in Treaty-Based Investor-State Arbitration, which were adopted in August of 2013 and went into effect on April 1, 2014. It draws on negotiating history to elaborate on the content of and purpose of each of the Rules’ provisions, and identifies options for and barriers to applying these Rules… read more
Re-Regulating Global Finance and the Investment Treaty System: Convergence or Collision Course?
Date: April 24, 2013 12:00pm – 01:30pm
Location: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Case Lounge, 7th Floor
The Dog That Did Not Bark: The Mystery of the Missing Dispute Settlement Chapter in NAFTA
Date: April 8, 2013 12:15pm – 01:15pm
Location: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 807
An Arbitrator’s Experience
Date: April 3, 2013 12:10pm – 01:10pm
Location: William and June Warren Hall, L104
Submissions to UNCITRAL Working Group II on Arbitration and Conciliation
Most investment treaties grant investors the procedural right to bring claims against governments through investor-state arbitration. Under the arbitration rules that commonly govern the proceedings, including the arbitration rules developed by a United Nations body, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), these disputes can remain hidden from public view from their commencement… read more
Where Public Meets Private: International Law and The Dynamic Interpretation of Treaties in the Context of the Draft UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency
Date: February 5, 2013 6:30pm – 08:30pm
Location: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, 601 Lexington Avenue (between 53rd and 54th Street), New York, NY
Towards a New Generation of Investment Policies – UNCTAD’s Investment Policy Framework for Sustainable Development (IPFSD)
Date: February 5, 2013 1:15pm – 02:30pm
Location: United Nations, Conference Room 6 NLB, 300 East 42nd Street, New York