Our aims
The EU was created to achieve the strengthening of economies of its Members States and to contribute to the protection of its citizens. The economic and political stability and development of the EU and its Member States depends to a large extent on offering a stable and foreseeable legal framework for domestic and foreign investors.
In addition, access to an efficient and effective dispute settlement system is an important and integral element of the Rule of Law within and outside of the EU and its Member States.
EFILA complements these endeavours by providing a platform for a fact- and merit-based discussion on the need and advantages of an EU investment law and arbitration policy that ensures the highest standard of protection for all European investors and their investments within and outside of the EU.
EFILA regularly organizes events such as the Annual Conference and the Annual Lecture.
EFILA also publishes papers on relevant topics of European investment law and policy.
Celebrating 5 years of EFILA!
Since EFILA was established in June 2014, it has developed into a highly regarded think-tank that is specifically focusing on the EU’s investment law and arbitration policy.
EFILA is unique in that it brings together arbitration practitioners, academics and policy makers, which have extensive first-hand experience and deep understanding of the relevant investment law and arbitration issues.
EFILA’s events, such as the Annual Conference and Annual Lecture, have established themselves as key-events of the investment arbitration community.
In the same year of its establishment, EFILA was nominated by its peers for the Global Arbitration Review (GAR) Prize for the Best Development of the Year in 2014.
In 2015, Sophie Nappert delivered the first EFILA Annual Lecture, which won the Global Arbitration Review (GAR) Prize for the Best Lecture of the Year in 2015.
In 2018, at the EFILA’s 3rd Annual Conference, the Key-note Speech of Charles Brower was nominated for the Global Arbitration Review (GAR) Prize for the Best Lecture of the year in 2018.
Recently, EFILA was granted Observer Status at the UNCITRAL Working Group III, which is working on the reforms of the ISDS system.
Moreover, EFILA’s publications are widely read and cited by policy makers and academics.
News
Register now for the 5th EFILA Annual Conference on Investment Protection in the EU: Alternatives to intra-EU BITs, click here for the programme & registration.
EFILA’s recent contribution to the Investor State Arbitration 2020 issue of ICLG has just been published, click here.
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The ICSID Convention, Regulations and Rules
A Practical Commentary
Edited by Julien Fouret, Eversheds Sutherland, Paris, France, Rémy Gerbay, MoloLamken LLP, New York, US and Queen Mary University of London and Gloria M. Alvarez, School of Law, University of Aberdeen, UK
This major new commentary on the ICSID Convention, Regulations and Rules offers a new, forward-looking and highly practical interpretation of the convention and its associated documents. It is the first commentary to provide systematic article-by-article coverage not only of the Convention itself, but also of the institution rules, the ICSID arbitration rules and the ICSID administrative and financial regulations.
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