Advancing the SDGs: Understanding and Improving the Role of Corporate Transparency
Date: April 19 and 20, 2018
Location: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Annex
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Crucial Ingredients for Meaningful Reform at UNCITRAL: Withdrawal of Consent to Arbitrate and Termination of Existing Treaties
By Lise Johnson, Lisa Sachs, Brooke Guven, and Jesse Coleman
April 18, 2018
UNCITRAL’s Working Group III has been entrusted with a mandate to explore reform of ISDS, including, potentially, through a multilateral instrument capable of reforming existing treaties. However, these discussions are likely to be slow, and outcomes uncertain. In the meantime, governments and their stakeholders remain tied to an outdated system that is widely acknowledged to be ill-suited for modern investment policy objectives, with increasingly concerning consequences. Two near term options that could accompany longer term reform are (1) a joint instrument on withdrawal of consent to arbitrate; and/or (2) a joint instrument on termination.
What Do We Mean by Investment Facilitation?
By Jesse Coleman, Brooke Güven, Lise Johnson, and Lisa Sachs
February 21, 2018
The authors discuss calls for “investment facilitation,” highlighting aspects of the potential investment facilitation agenda that could advance sustainable development and those that may ultimately undermine it.
Webinar: Civil Society Submissions in Investor-State Arbitration
Date: February 6, 2018, 7:00am-8.30am EST/ 12:00pm-1:30pm GMT
Location: Webinar
Experts Examine Costs and Benefits of Investment Incentives
By Nathan Lobel
January 10, 2018
Governments continue to use incentives to attract and hold corporate investment. In Rethinking Investment Incentives: Trends and Policy Options edited by Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson, and Lisa Sachs (Columbia University Press, July 2016), several distinguished experts question some of the core assumptions that lead to these deals. In doing so, they identify key issues for policymakers and propose best practices to help governments get the most bang for their buck.
Investor-State Dispute Settlement: What Are We Trying to Achieve? Does ISDS Get us There?
By Lise Johnson, Brooke Skartvedt Güven, and Jesse Coleman
December 11, 2017
In this blog post, the first part of a two-part series, Lise Johnson, Brooke Skartvedt Güven, and Jesse Coleman raise questions regarding the effectiveness of investor-state dispute settlement in achieving its stated objectives.
The Role of IPAs in Advancing Sustainable Development
CCSI and the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) have released The Role of IPAs in Advancing Sustainable Development, summarizing survey responses of IPAs regarding sustainable foreign direct investment (FDI). The survey results indicate that IPAs recognize both the crucial role of FDI in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the role of… read more
UN Forum on Business and Human Rights: Session on Realizing Access to Remedy – Implications of the International Investment Regime
Date: November 29, 2017, 10:00am-11:30am local (Geneva) time
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Are International Arbitrators Judges or Juries?
Date: October 31, 2017, 12:10-1pm
Location: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 546
EU Judges Visit Columbia Law School
Date: October 30 – November 3, 2017
Location: Various