2015 Events
Workshop on Transnational Law & Social Justice
26-27 June 2015
The Transnational Law Project at LSE Law is hosting an international workshop on ‘Transnational Law & Social Justice’ on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 June, sponsored by the LSE Law Department and the Modern Law Review.The workshop features paper presentations in streams on consumer, labour and family law (on Friday), but also panels that address questions of social justice across these different sectors (on Saturday). Of particular interest may be a Plenary Session on ‘Teaching Transnational Law and Social Justice’, featuring Priya Gupta (Southwestern) and Philomila Tsoukala (Georgetown) on Friday evening, and a Roundtable on Saturday afternoon featuring Stephanie Francq (UC Louvain), Aukje van Hoek (Amsterdam), Ralf Michaels (Duke), Philomila Tsoukala (Georgetown), and Peer Zumbansen (King’s College London). We kick off, on Friday afternoon, with a presentation by Floris de Witte (LSE).
The full programme can be found here: https://tlsjproject.wordpress.com
A limited number of places is available for phd students, faculty and others interested in attending. Please email j.a.bomhoff@lse.ac.uk for more information. The workshop organizers are Dr. Ivana Isailovic (Brussels), Dr. Ugljesa Grusic (Nottingham) and Dr. Jacco Bomhoff (LSE).
‘Investment Arbitration and the Energy Charter Treaty – New Developments’
Seminar with Graham Coop (Volterra Fietta and former General Counsel of the ECT Secretariat) and Laurent Gouiffès (Hogan Lovells Paris)
Wednesday, 28 January 2014, 6:00-8:00 pm, 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields (old Land Registry), room 32L.G.23.
Open to the public.
'Investor Protection in TTIP: fading democracy or new generation?'
LSE Works Public Lecture with Jan Kleinheisterkamp (LSE Law) and Martti Koskenniemi (LSE Centennial Professor of Law) under the moderation of Shawn Donnan (Financial Times World Trade Editor)
Thursday, 12 February, 6:30-8:00 pm, Hong Kong Theatre
Past events
Debating Jan Paulsson’s Idea of Arbitration
5th LSE Arbitration Debate to celebrate the publication The Idea of Arbitration (OUP 2013) by Jan Paulsson (U Miami / LSE)
Thursday, 13 February 2014
A joint Science Po – LSE PILAGG event
Panel 1 – Should arbitrators be allowed to apply the law and decide issues of public policy? Discussants: Horatia Muir Watt (Science Po) and Jan Kleinheisterkamp (LSE); moderator: Salim Moollan (Essex Court Chambers)
Panel 2 - Jurisdictional contests: Who decides them? When? And with what degree of finality? Discussants: Bernard Rix (20 Essex Street) and Charles Poncet (CMS); moderator: Tariq Baloch (3VB)
Panel 3 – Images in a Crystal Ball Discussants: VV Veeder (Essex Court Chambers) and Derek Roebuck (IALS); moderator: Catherine Rogers (U Penn)
‘Citizenship beyond the State’
SciencePo / LSE PILAGG Seminar
Karen Knops (Toronto U)
Commentator: Floris de Witte (LSE)
Tuesday, 19 November 2013, 4:00-6:00 pm (tbc), Graham Wallace Room Old Building 5th floor [how to get there]
Registration by email to: Law.TL.Project@lse.ac.uk (subject line: PILAGG 19 Nov)
‘First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers: Liberalism and Revolution in Modern Egypt’
Law Matters Public Lecture
Amr Shalakany (American University of Cairo and LSE Visiting Professor)
Respondent: Prakash Shah (QMUL)
Thursday, 10 October 2013, 6:30-8:00 pm, NAB LG.01 Wolfson Theatre [how to get there]
Twitter #LSEShalakany
‘Rethinking Shari'a as a field of Comparative Legal Studies’
Amr Shalakany (American University of Cairo and LSE Visiting Professor)
Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 1:00-2:00 pm, NAB 2.08 [how to get there]
Registration by email to R.Yarham@lse.ac.uk
'Is Self-Regulation of International Arbitration an Illusion?'
4th LSE Arbitration
Debate with
Sundaresh Menon (Chief Justice of Singapore) and Jan Paulsson
(LSE)
Thursday, 9 May 2013, 6:30-8:00 pm, Old Theatre
Registration by email: Law.TL.Project@lse.ac.uk (subject line: “Register 9 May LSE Debate”)
‘Why do States enter into BITs’
Mahnaz Malik (12 Gray’s Inn Chambers)
Tuesday, 12 March 2013, 7:00-8:30 pm, NAB 1.14
‘Rethinking International Investment Law: An Investor’s Perspective
– Repsol / YPF in Argentina’
Seminar and debate on the legal,
economic, diplomatic and policy implications of the recent expropriation of
Repsol in Argentina and Argentina’s refusal to honour awards to foreign
investors by arbitral tribunals
Miguel Klingenberg (Deputy Secretary General of Repsol S.A.)
Pablo Fernández (IESE Business School)
Carlos López Jall (Director International Organizations and European Affairs Repsol S.A.)
Jan Kleinheisterkamp (LSE)
Monday, 4 March 2013, 6:30-8:30 pm, NAB 1.04
Registration by email: Law.TL.Project@lse.ac.uk (subject line: “Register 4 March Repsol”)
'Development at the WTO: Looking Beyond the Doha Round’
Sonia Elise Rolland (Northeastern)
Tuesday 20 November 2012, 12:30-2:00 pm, room NAB 2.14
‘The Investment Treaty System as Judicial Review: Some Remarks on its Nature, Scope and Standards’
Federico Ortino (King’s College)
Thursday 15 November 2012, 12:30-2:00 pm, room STC.S75
‘Reimagining International Financial Law'
Michael Waibel (Cambridge)
Thursday 1 November 2012, 12:30-2:00 pm, room STC.S75
'Unlawful Laws - How far can arbitrators go?'
Pierre Mayer (Paris I ) and Jan Paulsson (LSE)
Moderator: V.V. Veeder (Essex Court Chambers)
This 3rd LSE Arbitration Debate will focus on the question whether international
arbitrators can consider some otherwise applicable laws to be unlawful , as
argued by Paulsson in his 2009 Lalive lecture and challenged by Mayer in an
article in the Revue de l'arbitrage.
Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 6:30-8:30pm, New Theatre
download the PDF flyer |
available here as a podcast
‘Conservation and the Military: In Times of Peace, and In Times of War’
Alexander Gillespie (Waikato University, New Zealand)
Monday, 21 May 2012, 4:00–5:30pm, NAB Thai Theatre
'Collective Redress in the United States in the Wake of AT&T Mobility, Stolt-Nielsen and Dukes'
Professor S.I. Strong (University of Missouri / HIIL-NIAS)
Wednesday, 2 May 2012, 6:30-8:00pm, room NAB 1.09
'Investment Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty'
Graham Coop (former General Counsel of the ECT Secretariat)
24 April 2012, 6:30-8:00pm, NAB 1.07
‘Already Transnational Private Law?’
Robert Wai (Osgoode Hall Law School)
29 February 2012, 6:30-8:00pm, room NAB 1.09
'International Financial Standards and the Explanatory Force of the
Lex Mercatoria'
Cally Jordan (University of Melbourne)
6 December 2011, 7:00-8:00pm, NAB 1.15
'Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration'
Guy Pendell (CMS Cameron McKenna) and Phillip Ashley (CMS Cameron
McKenna)
22 November, 7:00-8:30 pm, room NAB LG.03
'Dreaming
Transnational Law'
Ralf Michaels (Duke University)
17 November 2011, 6:30-8:00pm, Hong Kong Theatre
available here as a podcast
'Private Power and Transnational Law’
Robert Wai (Osgood Hall Law School)
10 November 2011, 1:00-2:00 pm, S75
'The Art of Selecting the Right Arbitrator'
Constantine Partasides (Freshfields)
9 November 2011, 6:30-8:00pm, room NAB 2.04
available here as a podcast
'Bearing in Mind the Role of the Seat of Arbitration'
George Burn (Salans)
25 October 2011, 7:00-8:30pm, room NAB 1.15
'Arbitration 1.02 - Basic Concepts II'
Jan Paulsson (LSE Centennial Professor and Freshfields)
19 October 2011, 6:30-8:00pm, room NAB 2.04
available here as a podcast
'Arbitration 1.01 - Basic Concepts I'
Jan Paulsson, LSE Centennial Professor and Freshfields LLP
13 October 2011, 6:30-8:00pm, room NAB 2.04
available here as a podcast
Conference on Private Norms and Public Interests in
Transnational Economic Law
1st Conference of the Transnational Law Project
17 June 2011, 9am - 6pm (NAB LG.01)
Transnational law evolves in a field of tension between local
and globalised concerns and on the fault line of public and private law, thus
blurring traditional distinctions between horizontal and vertical relationships
and defying acquired understandings of regulation. As a result, there is a need
for reflection on the calibration of public interests in these predominantly
private processes and on the reconciliation of the needs both of a globalised
economy and local societies. This conference aims to address these issues by way
of a series of case studies, both from the view of theory and practice.
click here for further information about the conference
or download the pdf flyer
‘Rethinking Investment Treaty Law – A Policy Perspective’
This colloquium unites government officials from Australia (recently
announced discontinuing the use of arbitration in investment treaties),
Ecuador (recently abandoned ICSID and started terminating its BITs),
South Africa (recently requested the renegotiation of most of its BITs in
the light of its black economic empowerment programme), Norway (whose BIT
review 2008-2009 was particularly heated), and the U.S. (currently
reviewing its model BIT, which was substantively modified in 2004 after the
first NAFTA claims) to share and debate their national experiences, discussions
and policy choices.
23 May 2011, 6pm – 8:30pm (New Theatre)
flyer |
available here as a podcast
‘Arbitration and Financial Markets Dispute’
2nd LSE Arbitration Debate with Jeffrey Golden (LSE) and Jan Paulsson
(LSE)
The 2nd LSE Arbitration Debate, which is jointly organised with the Law &
Financial Markets Project, brings together Jeffrey Golden, the main author of
the ISDA Master Agreements and the driving force behind efforts to set up an
International Financial Court, and Jan Paulsson, who will take on Jeffrey’s
question marks about the suitability of the general use of arbitration for
financial market disputes.
16 May 2011, 7pm – 8:30pm (New Theatre)
CPD accredited. Registration by email:
Law.TL.Project@lse.ac.uk (Subject line: “Register 16 May”)
[see
flyer]
[video
available]
[audio available]
'Investment Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty'
Specialist seminar with Graham Coop (ECT Secretariat) and Laurent Gouiffès
(Lovells)
23 March 2011, 6pm-8pm (NAB 2.13)
'Problems with Investment Treaties II - How to get out of the Treaty?'
Specialist Seminar with Mahnaz Malik (IISD)
17 March 2011, 1pm - 3pm (NAB 2.04)
‘International Contracts and Changes Circumstances in Brazil and England’
Specialist Seminar with Paulo Nasser (LSE LLM cand), Ricardo
Lewandowski (Clyde & Co LLP) and Mark Deem (Addleshaw Goddard LLP)
16
March 2011, 12pm-1:30pm, (NAB LG.03)
'Problems with Investment Treaties I - Do countries know what they sign up to?'
Specialist Seminar with Mahnaz Malik (IISD)
14 March 2011, 7pm-9pm (NAB 2.06)
'LCIA Arbitration Proceedings'
Specialist Seminar with Rémy Gerbay (LCIA) and Edward Poulton
(Baker & McKenzie)
9 March 2011, 6pm-8pm (NAB 1.15)
'Arbitration and Profit'
Specialist Seminar with Professor Peter B. Rutledge (University of Georgia Law
School)
8 February 2011, 6pm-8pm (NAB LG.01)
'Unilaterally Appointed Arbitrators - A Good Idea?'
Debate between Alexis Mourre (Castaldi Mourre Paris) and Professor Jan
Paulsson (LSE)
24 November 2010, 7.15pm-9pm (New Theatre, East Building)
'Investment Treaty Law after Lisbon'
Joined Workshop of the
Transnational Law Project
and
International Trade Policy Unit (IR). Dr. Steve Woolcock (LSE) and
Dr. Jan Kleinheisterkamp (LSE)
will be presenting a study for the European Parliament on the Commission’s
communication and
draft regulation relating to the future of investment treaty law in Europe,
followed by comments by Ms. Marta Busz (EU Commission DG Trade), Mr. Simon
Clodes (UK Department for Business, Innovation & Skills), and Mr. Luis González
García (Matrix Chambers).
10 November 2010, 6pm-8.30pm (NAB 1.04)
>> the study can be previewed here
'Illegality and Contract Enforcement - From Reggazoni to
Soleimany: All Wrong?'
Specialist Seminar with Graham Dunning QC (Essex Court Chambers) and Professor
Jan Paulsson (LSE), moderated by Professor Trevor Hartley (LSE)
13 October 2010, 6pm-8pm (NAB 2.04)
'The Idea of Arbitration - An Introduction'
Specialist Seminar with Professor Jan Paulsson (LSE)
6 October 2010, 6pm-8pm (NAB 2.04)
'Paradigms, Methods and
Analogies in Investment Treaty Law'
Closed academic-practitioner workshop organised by Anthea Roberts and
Dr Jan
Kleinheisterkamp and moderated by LSE Centennial Professor Jan Paulsson,
with, among others, Hon. Judge Charles Brower (20 Essex Street), Yas
Banifatemi (Shearman & Sterling Paris), Zac Douglas (Matrix Chambers),
Luis
Gonzales Garcia (Matrix Chambers), Professor Campbell McLachlan (Essex Court
Chambers), Barton Legum (Salans Paris), Dr Kate Parlett (Freshfields),
Professor Gus van Harten (Osgoode Hall Law School), Professor Santiago Montt
(University of Chile), Kyla Tienhaara (Australian National University),
Stephan Schill (Max Planck Institute Heidelberg), Professor David
Schneiderman (University of Toronto), Michael Waibel (Cambridge), and Jason
Yakee (University of Wisconsin)
[click here for news item]
1 September
2010, 9am-18pm (NAB 1.04)
'Investment Protection under the Energy
Charter Treaty'
Specialist Seminar with Graham Coop
(ECT Secretariat) and Laurent Gouiffès
(Lovells)
5 May 2010, 6.00pm-8.00pm (NAB 1.04)
'Illegality in
International Arbitration'
Specialist Seminar with Constantine Partasides (Freshfields)
17 February 2010, 6.00pm-8.00pm (NAB Alumni Theatre)
'Evidence and Experts
in International Arbitration'
Specialist Seminar with
Martin Hunter (Essex Court Chambers)
3 February 2010,
6.00pm-8.00pm (NAB Alumni Theatre)
'Why do developing countries sign BITs? - The case of Pakistan'
Specialist Seminar with
Shamila Mahmood (Government of
Pakistan) and Lauge Poulsen (LSE
PhD)
20 January 2010, 6.00pm-8.00pm (NAB Alumni Theatre)
‘Effective Use of
Discovery in International Arbitration’
Specialist Seminar with George Burn (Salans) & Annet van Hooft
(Jones Day)
9 December 2009, 6.00pm-8.00pm (NAB Alumni Theatre)
‘The
Role of Arbitration in the Emergence of Transnational Law - Arbitration's Fluid
Universe’
Law Department Public Lecture by Professor Jan Paulsson (LSE Centenial
Professor)
24 November 2009, 6.00pm-8.00pm (Hong Kong Theatre)
[video
available]
[paper available
here]
‘The Functioning
of the ICC International Court of Arbitration’
Specialist Seminar with Dr Stuart Dutson (Eversheds) & Victoria
Orlowski (ICC Secretariat)
11 November, 6.00pm-8.00pm (NAB Alumni Theatre)
‘Parallel
Proceedings in International Dispute Resolution’
Specialist Seminar with Professor Campbell McLachlan, QC (Victoria
University of Wellington, Essex Court Chambers)
28 October 2009, 5.00pm-7.00pm (NAB 2.04)
‘Introduction to
Practical Aspects of International Arbitration’
Specialist Seminar with Vernon Flynn, QC (Essex Court Chambers)
14 October 2009, 5.00pm-7.00pm (NAB 2.04)
‘The UNIDROIT
Principles of International Commercial Contracts’
Joined LSE / LCIA Colloquium organised by
Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp and chaired by
Professor Michael Bridge, with the participation of Professor Jan Paulsson,
The Rt Hon Lord Mustill, Professor Ralf Michaels (Duke), Mr Constantine
Partasides (Freshfields), Professor Stefan Vogenauer (Oxford), Ms Hilary
Heilbron QC, Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp (LSE), Mr Audley Sheppard (Clifford
Chance), Professor Peter Huber (Mainz), Mr Kenneth Rokison QC, Professor Pascal
Pichonnaz (Fribourg) and Mr Toby Landau QC (see
here)
26 February 2009, 2.00pm-6.00pm (NAB Alumni Theatre)
‘Les
Principes relatifs aux contrats du commerce international’
ICC Seminar co-organised by
Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp, with the participation of Mr John Beechey
(President ICC ICA), Professor François Terré (Paris II), Professor Christian
Larroumet (Paris II), Professor Robert Wintgen (Paris X), Professor Ralf
Michaels (Duke), Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp (LSE), Professor Stefan Vogenauer
(Oxford), Professor Ewan McKendrick (Oxford),Professor Pascal Pichonnaz
(Fribourg), Professor Pierre Mayer (Paris I), Professor Catherine Kessedjian
(Paris II).
25 February 2009, 2.00pm-6.00pm (ICC International Court of Arbitration, Paris)
