3rd EFILA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2018
Event Information
Description
3rd EFILA Annual Conference 2018
Parallel States’ Obligations in Investor-State Arbitration
The conference will focus on:
- Non-disputing third parties and their influence on arbitration
- Investment regulation and arbitration
- Human rights, environment and arbitration
- Proposed Investment Court System
Programme
08.30-09:00 Registration, tea and coffee
09:00-09:15 Welcome Address by the 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)
- Federico Ortino (Kings College London)
- Christophe Bondy (Cooley)
- Monica Moraleda (Kingdom of Spain)
12.45-14:00 Lunch break
14.00-15.30
Keynote Speech by the Honorable Charles N. Brower, Arbitrator,
20 Essex Street Chambers
“Why The EU Investment Court System Is Destined To Fail Foreign Investors And Host States Alike?”
- Chair: Markus Burianski (White & Case)
Commentators:
- Cherie Blair QC (Omnia Strategy)
- Annette Magnusson (Secretary General of the Arbitration Institute of the SCC)
- Dirk Pulkowski (Permanent Court of Arbitration, PCA)
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)
- Monique Sasson (independent arbitrator)
- Stephen Fietta (Fietta)
- Iuliana Iancu (Hanotiau & van den Berg)
17:30-17:45
Closing remarks
- Prof. Nikos Lavranos, Secretary General of EFILA
