Event

Judicialization of Investor-State Dispute Resolution: Competing Models of Legal Globalization

  • Conférencier  Professor Joanna Jemielniak, University of Copenhagen

  • Lieu

    University of Luxembourg Weicker Building Conference room B 001 (Ground floor) 4, rue Alphonse Weicker L-2721 Luxembourg

    LU

  • Thème(s)
    Droit

Abstract:

Public backlash against arbitration as the dominant method of investor-state dispute resolution has in recent years resulted in a number of reform proposals. Many of them aim at either supplementing or replacing the existing mechanisms with court-like forms of adjudication. The lecture will discuss two such proposals, which have enjoyed notable political support: the EU Investment Court System and the Belt and Road dispute resolution mechanism. Prospects for establishment of a multilateral investment court will also be examined, with regard to pending proceedings of UNCITRAL Working Group III, and to the EU-China BIT negotiations.

Discussant:

Professor Matthew Happold — University ofLuxembourg