8th EFILA Annual Conference 2023
16 March 2023 hosted by Cuatrecasas in Madrid
Climate change and international investment law & arbitration: challenges and uncertainties
Download the Conference booklet with all bios of the Speakers here
WATCH THE KEYNOTE BY WENDY MILES, KC here
some photo impressions of the EFILA Annual Conference 2023
Programme
08:30-09:00 Registration and buffet breakfast sponsored by Quinn Emanuel
09:00-09:15 Welcome Address by Chair of the Executive Board of EFILA Mrs. Mirjam van de Hel – Koedoot (Partner, NautaDutilh)
09:15-10:45 Keynote Speech: WENDY MILES, KC (Twenty Essex, London)
The Role of Law in Promoting, Facilitating and Protecting Investment in Net Zero: What is it and why does it matter?
Chair: Dr. José Ángel Rueda García (Partner, CUATRECASAS)
Panellists:
Cecilia Carrara (Partner, Legance)
Samantha J. Rowe (Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton)
Dr. Paschalis Paschalidis (Counsel, Arendt)
David Sandberg (Senior Associate, Mannheimer Swartling)
10:45-11:15 Tea/coffee break sponsored by Eversheds Sutherland
11.15-12.45 Panel 1: Challenges and Uncertainties
Chair: Dr. Moritz Keller (Partner, Clifford Chance)
Panellists:
Alexander G. Leventhal (Partner, Quinn Emanuel)
Marieke Faber (Partner, NautaDutilh)
Timothy Foden (Partner, Boies Schiller Flexner)
Laura Cózar (Partner, Accuracy)
12:45-13.00 Kluwer Arbitration: Data-Driven Arbitrator, Expert Witness and Counsel Selection
Ewa Cairns-Szkatuła (Wolters Kluwer, Director Technology Product Management)
13.00-14:30 Lunch break sponsored by Debevoise & Plimpton
14.30-16.00 Panel 2: Oxford-style debate: The motion of the house is:
A (modernized) ECT is necessary to speed up the energy transition in accordance with the Paris Agreement goals
Chair: Prof. Dr. Nikos Lavranos (Secretary-General of EFILA)
Debaters:
Anja Ipp (co-founder Climate Change Counsel)
Prof. Dr. Yannick Radi (Professor of Public International Law, Faculty of Law of UC Louvain)
Prof. Belen Olmos Giupponi (Professor and Head of Law, University of Portsmouth)
Prof. Rafael Gil Nievas (Of Counsel, Eversheds-Sutherland)
Risteard de Paor (Of Counsel, Herbert Smith Freehills)
Lourdes Martínez de Victoria Gómez (State’s Attorney, International Arbitration Department, General State Attorney’s Office – Ministry of Justice of the Kingdom of Spain)
16:00-16.30 Tea/coffee break sponsored by Legance Avvocati Associati
2022 Essay Competition Prize giving ceremony sponsored by Brill Nijhoff and Norton Rose Fulbright
16.30-17.30 Fireside chat with Sir Francis Jacobs, KCMG, QC, Professor of Law, King’s College and Jean Monnet Professor, formerly AG of the CJEU
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Nikos Lavranos (Secretary General of EFILA)
17:30-17.45 Book presentation: EU Investment Protection Law (Commentary on CETA) [Beck/Nomos/Hart, 2023] by Prof. Dr. Nikos Lavranos (Secretary General of EFILA) with Ignacio Diaz (CliffordChance) and Fernando Irurzun (CliffordChance)
17:45-20.00 Drinks sponsored by Boies Schiller Flexner
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