Vale Columbia Center International Investment Law and Policy Speaker Series

Here's the schedule for the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment's Spring 2010 International Investment Law and Policy Speaker Series:

• February 11: Gus Van Harten (York Univ. - Osgoode Hall Law), Empirical research on arbitrator bias—its relevance and its limitations
• February 18: Matthew Genasci (Revenue Watch Institute), Alternatives to investment arbitration: contract renegotiation in the natural resource sector
• March 11: André Von Walter (Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, France), The investor's legitimate expectations - inquiries into the legal nature of an increasingly popular concept
• March 25: Yasmin Shaker, (Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada), Damages: does the law matter?
• April 1: Theodore Posner, (Crowell & Moring LLP), Appeals from investor-state awards: an examination of whether and how
• April 8: David Caron (Univ. of California, Berkeley – Law), Investment arbitration and the distinction between appeal and annulment