The Center is pleased to announce this September’s session of the Forum of the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law, entitled “The EU Proposal for an Investment Court System”. The event will take place on Monday, 12 September 2016, from 6.00 – 8.00 pm, in the Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, Furman Hall 900 (245 Sullivan Street, New York, NY 10012).
It is a great pleasure to be able to announce that on the occasion of this session Dr. Inka Hanefeld will give a talk on the aforementioned topic and that Professor Robert Howse and Barry Appleton agreed to act as commentators.
Dr. Inka Hanefeld LL.M. (New York University), Attorney-at-law (New York), is a German and New York qualified lawyer specialized in dispute resolution and, in particular, in arbitration. Inka is the founding partner of the German dispute resolution law firm Hanefeld Rechtsanwälte, Hamburg, Germany. In 2013, Inka was appointed as arbitrator to the panel of arbitrators at the Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) by the German Government. In 2015, Inka became Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. Since 2015, she is also court member of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and designated member of the ICDR International Panel of Arbitrators. Inka primarily acts as arbitrator and counsel in domestic and international arbitration proceedings in the fields of international trade, industrial plant and machine building, energy, banking & finance, as well as in post-M&A and investor-State disputes. Her expertise has been recognized in various international rankings.
Robert Howse is the Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at NYU School of Law. Professor Howse received his B.A. in philosophy and political science with high distinction, as well as an LL.B., with honours, from the University of Toronto, where he was co-editor in chief of the Faculty of Law Review. He also holds an LL.M. from the Harvard Law School. He has been a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne), Tsinghua University, and Osgoode Hall Law School in Canada and taught in the Academy of European Law, European University Institute, Florence. He is a frequent consultant or adviser to government agencies and international organizations such as the OECD, the World Bank, UNCTAD, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Law Commission of Canada and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. He was a contributor to the American Law Institute WTO project. He is a co-founder and co-convener of the New York City Area Working Group on International Economic Law and serves on the American Bar Association Working Group on Investment Treaties. Professor Howse serves on the editorial boards of the London Review of International Law, Transnational Legal Theory, The Journal of World Trade and Investment, among others. Professor Howse’s article with Ruti Teitel “Beyond Compliance: Rethinking Why International Law Really Matters” was awarded the Global Policy Best Article Prize 2010 (shared with Joseph Stiglitz et al). Prior to pursuing legal studies, Howse held a variety of posts with the Canadian foreign ministry, including as a member of the Policy Planning Secretariat and a diplomat at the Canadian Embassy in Belgrade.
Barry Appleton is the Managing Partner of Appleton & Associates International Lawyers in Toronto. He is a member of the bars of Ontario, New York, the District of Columbia and the US Court of International Trade. For more than twenty years, he has practiced international investment treaty arbitration under the NAFTA. bilateral investment treaties, appearing as lead counsel in many international arbitrations He also has represented client submissions at the World Trade Organization. Mr. Appleton is the author of the three volumes of NAFTA: Legal Text and Interpretative Materials, (Thomson West, 2007), the treatise Navigating NAFTA (Carswell,1994) and many articles involving the adjudication of international investment treaty law issues. He is the global editor of Westlaw’s Investor-State Reports and Investor- State Digest. He also acts as the Vice Chair of the International Arbitration Committee of the American Bar Association Section on International Law and co-chairs the International Arbitration Committee’s Investment Treaty Working Group which is currently drafting a Report on the EU Investment Court Proposal.
Please note that the Chatham House rule applies.