The latest issue of the
ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal (Vol. 24, no. 2, Fall 2009) is out. Contents include:
- 50 Years of Bilateral Investment Treaties Conference 2009
- Preface - Organizing Committee
- Ludolf von Wartenberg, Welcoming Address 1
- Roland Koch, Welcoming Address 2
- Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, Welcoming Address 3
- Hans-Joachim Otto, Welcoming Address 4
- Cornel Wisskirchen, Welcoming Address 5
- Robert Hunter, Introduction to the Conference
- Session 1: Original Intent, Development and Economic Significance of BITs
- Lucy Reed, Introductory Remarks
- Sompong Sucharitkul, Fifty Years of Bilateral Investment Treaties with Germany: The Experience from Thailand's Perspective
- James X. Zhan, The Spread of BITs and their Changing Face
- Joachim Steffens, Expectations of Governments and Investors vs. Practice: The Government View on BITs
- L. Yves Fortier, Expectations of Governments and Investors vs. Practice: A View from the Bench
- Session 2: Current Substantive and Procedural Approaches to BITs around the World
- Patricia Nacimiento, Introductory Remarks
- Rudolf Dolzer, The European Approach to BITs
- Zhang Yuejiao, The Asian Approach to Bilateral Investment Treaties for the Protection and Promotion of Foreign Investment
- Session 3: Europeanization and Regionalism as a Challenge to BITs
- Stephan Hobe, Introductory Remarks
- August Reinisch, Investment Protection and Dispute Settlement in Preferential Trade Agreements: A Challenge to BITs?
- Ulrich Wölker, The EU as a Player in the BIT Arena: Current and Future Legal Challenges
- Christoph G. Benedict, The Multilateralization of Investment Protection under the Lisbon Treaty: Fears and Hopes of Investors
- Session 4: The Future of Bilateral Investment Protection
- Christian Tietje, Introductory Remarks
- Omar E. García-Bolívar, Sovereignty vs. Investment Protection: Back to Calvo?
- Maurice Mendelson, Investment and BITs in Clinical Isolation? Conflicting Legal Obligations of Host States
- Karl-Heinz Bockstiegel, An Arbitrator's Perspective on BITs and their Relation to Other International Law Obligations
- Session 5: Will the Concepts of "Investment" and "Investor" Be Redefined?
- Robert Hunter, Introductory Remarks
- M. Sornarajah, Portfolio Investments and the Definition of Investment
- Christoph Schreuer, Nationality of Investors: Legitimate Restrictions vs. Business Interests
- Ulrich Klemm, Investment through Third Countries: State Practice and Needs of Investors
- Brigitte Stern, The Contours of the Notion of Protected Investment
- Session 6: To Protect or not to Protect: Is there "Non-Protected" Investment?
- Karl-Ernst Brauner, Introductory Remarks
- Bernardo M. Cremades, Investment Protection and Compliance with Local Legislation
- Giorgio Sacerdoti, Corruption in Investment Transactions: Policy Initiatives, Legal Principles and Arbitral Practice
The latest issue of the ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal (Vol. 24, no. 2, Fall 2009) is out. Contents include:
