38th Working Group III Session Preparatory Session

In advance of the 38th Working Group III Session Preparatory Session (12-13 October 2019, Vienna), CCSI hosted a two-day preparatory session for delegates. Please find the relevant agenda and resources for this preparatory session below.

Day 1 Agenda:

• Part I: Overview of Developments to Date 
  • UNCITRAL and its method, with Judith Knieper, UNCITRAL Secretariat
  • An overview of Working Group III’s process to date and insights from the Commission sessions and intersessionals, with Lise Johnson and Brooke Guven, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
• Part II:Concerns and Potential Reforms: Focus on Issues Identified for Inter-sessional Work 
  • Potential reform solutions: an overview, with Corinne Montineri, UNCITRAL Secretariat
• Investment law advisory center or other assistance mechanisms: 
  • UNCITRAL Secretariat Background Paper, WP.168 on an Advisory Centre, with Judith Knieper, UNCITRAL Secretariat
  • Presentation of Securing Adequate Legal Defense in Proceedings Under International Investment Agreements: A Scoping Study with Lise Johnson
• Third Party Funding: 
  • UNCITRAL Secretariat Background Paper, WP.172 on Third-Party Funding, with David Probst
  • Presentation of Draft Text Providing for Transparency and Prohibiting Certain Forms of Third-Party Funding in Investor-State Dispute Settlement, with Brooke Guven, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
• Selection and appointment of adjudicators:
  • UNCITRAL Secretariat Background Paper, WP.169 on Selection and appointment of ISDS Tribunal Members, with Corinne Montineri, UNCITRAL Secretariat
  • Presentation of Academic forum paper: Selection and Appointment in International Adjudication: Insights from Political Science, with Taylor St. John, University of St. Andrews
  • Presentation with Marc Bungenberg, Saarsland University

• Codes of conduct for adjudicators and counsel – standards, rules, and enforcement thereof
  • UNCITRAL Secretariat Background Paper on Background information on a code of conduct (with compilation of information on codes of conduct Part I and Part II) with Jae Sung Lee, UNCITRAL Secretariat
  • Catherine A. Rogers, Penn State University
• Parallel claims and reflective loss
  • UNCITRAL Secretariat Background Paper, WP.170 on Shareholder claims and reflective loss, with Jae Sung Le, UNCITRAL Secretariat

Day 2 Agenda:

• Part III: Possible Reforms and Practical Considerations
  • Reform options and their contributions to identified concerns and cross- cutting issues
• Options and practical relating to methods of work: whether/how to prioritize, sequence, delegate, etc
  • A model for reforming IIAs? The example of the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent BEPS, with Irma Mosquera Valderrama, Leiden University

Relevant Materials: 

• Marc Bungenberg and August Reinisch, From Bilateral Arbitral Tribunals and Investment Courts to a Multilateral Investment Court: Options Regarding the Institutionalization of Investor-State Dispute Settlement, European Yearbook of International Economic Law (2019)
• Olof Larsson, Theresa Squatrito, Øyvind Stiansen, Taylor St. John, Selection and Appointment in International Adjudication: Insights from Political Science, Academic Forum Concept Paper (2019)
• CCSI, Reform Option: Counterclaims (2019)
• CCSI, Concern: Frivolous Claims (2019)
• CCSI, Reform Option: Greater State Control Over Treaty Interpretation and Application (2019)
• CCSI, Concern: Third-Party Funding (2019)
• UNCITRAL Secretariat Background Paper, WP.170 on Shareholder claims and reflective loss