Annual Conference 2018

3^rd EFILA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2018

PARALLEL STATES’ OBLIGATIONS IN INVESTMENT ARBITRATION

5 FEBRUARY 2018

Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of London

Watch the Keynote Speech by the honorable Charles N. Brower (45 min).

Read the summary Report of the conference.

PROGRAMME

08:30-09:00 Registration tea and coffee
09:00-09:15 Welcome Address by Chair of the Executive Board of EFILA
– Sherina Petit (Norton Rose Fulbright)

09:15-10:45 Panel 1: Non-disputing third parties and their influence on arbitration
– Chair: Yasmin Mohammad (Vannin Capital)
– Alejandro López Ortiz (Mayer Brown)
– Kostadin Sirleshtov (CMS)
– Lise Johnson (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment)

10:45-11:15 Tea/coffee break sponsored by Brill Martinus Nijhoff Publisher

11:15-12:45 Panel 2: Investment regulation and arbitration

– Chair: Aron Skogman (Mannheimer Swartling)
– Dr. Federico Ortino (King’s College London and Clifford Chance)
– Christophe Bondy (Cooley)
– Mónica Moraleda Saceda (Kingdom of Spain)

12:45-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:30 Keynote Speech by the Honorable Charles N. Brower (Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and 20 Essex Street Chambers) on “Why The EU Investment Court System Is Destined To Fail Foreign Investors And Host States Alike?”

– Chair: Dr. Markus Burianski (White & Case)
– Commentators:
– Cherie Blair CBE, QC (Omnia Strategy)
– Annette Magnusson (Secretary General of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce)
– Dr. Dirk Pulkowski (Permanent Court of Arbitration)

15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee break sponsored by Harbour Litigation Funding

16:00-17:30 Panel 3: Human rights, environment and arbitration
– Chair: Marie Stoyanov (Allen & Overy)
– Dr. Monique Sasson (Macchi Celere & Gangemi)
– Stephen Fietta (Fietta)
– Iuliana Iancu (Hanotiau & van den Berg)

17:30-17:45 Closing remarks
– Prof. Dr. Nikos Lavranos (Secretary General of EFILA)

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