Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s Investment Chapter the New ‘Gold Standard’?
La Chaire L. Yves Fortier pour l’arbitrage international et le droit commercial international, le groupe de recherche Justice Privée et État de Droit, et la McGill Arbitration Student Society accueillent José Enrique Alvarez, titulaire de la Chaire Herbert & Rose Rubin de droit international à NYU, pour une conférence sur les dispositions en matière d'investissements dans le partenariat transpacifique.
Cette conférence est accréditée pour 1,25 heures de formation continue obligatoire pour juristes par un formateur reconnu.
RSVP: lukas.vanhonnaeker [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Résumé
[En anglais seulement] TPP's investment chapter pursues a reform path within the existing international investment regime that many other states, including the United States, support. It is one path that might lead to a new gold standard, but it is not the only way to get there, and indeed what one considers a "gold standard" could change.
Le conférencier
[En anglais seulement] A former president of the American Society of International Law and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Institut de Droit International, José Enrique Alvarez has made substantial scholarly contributions to a wide range of subjects within international law, including the law-generating roles of international organizations, the challenges facing international criminal tribunals, and the international investment regime.
Alvarez has been a special adviser on international law to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, an attorney adviser with the Office of the Legal Adviser of the US Department of State, and has taught at Columbia, the University of Michigan, George Washington, and Georgetown law schools. Alvarez is the co-editor-in-chief of the leading peer-reviewed journal in the field, the American Journal of International Law. His series of lectures at The Hague Academy of International Law on the subject of foreign investment was subsequently published as The Public International Law Regime Governing International Investment (2011).
His areas of research include Foreign Investment, International Criminal Law and Courts, International Organizations, and Public International Law.
La conférence sera suivie d'un vin d'honneur dans l'atrium.
