The European Union and International Investment Law Reform: Between Aspirations and Reality?

22 June 2023, 5.30pm CEST

In-person seminar

Fondation Universitaire Brussels

Rue d’Egmont 11, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

REGISTER

The European Union has been one of the key drivers of the international investment law reform, pursuing the establishment of a Multilateral Investment Court (MIC) as a global solution for legitimacy concerns of the controversial investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism. The EU’s reform has aspired to enhance the rule of law in its internal and external policy. However, the reform of international investment law has ultimately exposed the clash of different visions of the rule of law, with profound practical implications. This seminar gathers experts that will discuss the challenges of the EU reform stemming from practical realities of international investment law. (see seminar flyer)

This seminar will also be an opportunity to present the book The European Union and International Investment Law Reform: Between Aspirations and Reality, published by Cambridge University Press.

Speakers:

• Professor Hélène Ruiz Fabri, Director, Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law Luxembourg
• Professor Yannick Radi, UCLouvain
• Dr Andrej Matić, Legal Adviser, Legal Department of the European External Action Service
• Professor Nicolas Angelet, Université Libre de Bruxelles and Brussels Bar

Moderator: Dr Maria Garcia, Head of the Politics Department, University of Bath

Concluding remarks: Dr Ivana Damjanovic, University of Canberra and The Australian National University

This event is supported by the Erasmus + program of the European Commission: EU Climate Change Agenda in External Trade and Investment (620168-EPP-1-2020-1-AU-EPPJMO-PROJECT )