The EU and Investment Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty

We are pleased to announce the event “The EU and investment arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty” a conference organised by the Centre of European and International Legal Affairs (CEILA) and supported by the Energy Charter Secretariat. The event will take place in London on the 11^th & 12^th of February, hosted in the Queen Mary University of London premises.

This conference moves away from the BITs discussion and aims to bring legal experts, practitioners and policy makers to discuss the interaction of EU law with investment arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty.  The objective is to set out and assess the legal and practical arrangements, which govern the involvement of the European Union (EU) and its Member States in investment arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). It aims to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the topic and explore the broader implications of the application of the investment provisions of the ECT on i) the integrity of EU law and ii) international investment law and, in light of the above, iii) assess the added value of the ECT for energy investments.

Gloria Alvarez, Queen Mary Research Fellow and Kluwer Blog Associate Editor, will be participating as special rapporteur for this event. Her reports will be shared here for all our Kluwer Arbitration Blog readers.

The conference will be featuring:

Dr Urban Rusnak Secretary General of the Energy Charter Secretariat

Dr Angelos Dimopoulos, Queen Mary University of London

Professor Loukas Mistelis, Queen Mary University of London

Dr Matteo Barra, Energy Charter Secretariat

Professor Christian Tietje, University of Halle

Christer Söderlund, Vinge

Markus Burgstaller, Hogan Lovells

Dr Pedro Claros, Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira

Dr Alejandro Carballo Leyda, Energy Charter Secretariat

Dr Petra Nemeckova, European Commission

Dr Constanze Von Papp, Keele University

Dr Andres Delgado, Durham University

Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax, Queen Mary University of London

Dr Robert Basedow, OECD

Dr Catharine Titi, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and CREDIMI, University of Burgundy

Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary University of London

Colin Brown, European Commission

Dr Martins Paparinskis, University College London

Professor Panos Koutrakos, City University London

Professor Rafael Leal Arcas, Queen Mary University of London

Dr Anna DeLuca, Bocconi University

Professor Leigh Hancher, Allen & Overy, Tilburg University

Professor Peter Cameron, University of Dundee

Dr Mavluda Sattorova, University of Liverpool

Professor Catherine Kessedjian, University of Panthéon-Assas, Paris II

Ms Maiko Meguro, Minisitry of Economy Trade and Industry, Japan

Click here for the full programme and registration.