Fall 2018
International Investment Law and Policy Speaker Series
Moderated by: Grant Hanessian (Baker McKenzie), Maria Chedid (Arnold & Porter),
and Kabir Duggal (Arnold & Porter)
October 11th – Room 546
PATRICIO GRANE LABAT
Partner, Arnold & Porter, London
“Low-Hanging Fruit: A Realistic Approach to Reforming Investor-State Dispute Settlement”
October 15th – Room 102B
PHILIPPE SANDS, QC
Professor of Law, University College London; Barrister, Matrix Chambers
“What I Have Learned – Ten Years as an Investor-State Arbitrator”
View video here.
October 18th – Room 546
EUGENIO HERNÁNDEZ-BRETÓN
Partner, Baker McKenzie, Caracas
“Trapped Between a Wall and an Empty Shelf: Expropriations, Controls and Other Policies (in Venezuela) under Arbitration and Bilateral Investment Treaties”
Listen to audio recording here.
View PPT presentation here.
November 13th – Room 546
COLIN BROWN
Deputy Head of Unit, Dispute Settlement and Legal Aspects of Trade Policy, DG Trade, European Commission / Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh
“Constructing a Multilateral Investment Court: The Path Ahead”
View video here.
November 15th – Room 546
ANA NOVIK
Head of Investment, OECD
“Trade and Investment Interdependence: Increasing Policy Coherence in the New Business Reality”
View video here.
November 29th – Room 546
ZOE WILLIAMS
International Political Economy Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science
“The Political Economy of Investor-State Disputes”