Academic Conference Presentations and Chairmanships

Free Trade and Investment

Co-convener of the CELIS Forum on Investment Screening 2023

13. October 2023

Speaker at the Yearly Durham Energy Disputes Conference 2023

30. July 2023

Chair of a Panel hosted by the Department of International Economic Law and Environmental Law of The University of Göttingen on “From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy: Trade and Investment Options”

11. June 2022

Investment Screening and the Right to be Heard – The Role of Counter-Evidence Presented by Investors

9. September 2020

Investment Screening in the European Union – 12 Nov 2020 – 13 Nov 2020, Brussels

5. May 2020

CELIS Virtual Symposium 2020 – A Common European Law on Investment Screening, 29-30 April 2020

20. April 2020

Investment Screening – It Is Always Darkest Before the Dawn – Presentation at the Munich Security Conference International Law Forum 2020

13. February 2020

Presentation on “The price for a seat at the ISDS reform table: CJEU’s clearance of the EU’s investment protection policy and its impact on the EU constitutional order” in Conference on Investment Courts and the Union’s Legal Order at Stockholm University

6. February 2020

Public Defence of Ph.D. Thesis of Dr Hannes Lenk at Gothenburg University

20. September 2019

The Interrelations between Investment Treaty Standards and Other International Legal Regimes

25. June 2019

Presentation on “Investment Arbitration: If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change” in the context of the ICC Copenhagen Arbitration Day 2019 – Lunch Seminar on “Investment Arbitration in a Post-truth World”

4. April 2019

Presentation on “Autonomy of EU law: A Catalyzer of Dialogue in International Economic Relations?” at King’s College London

22. March 2019

Presentation on “Regulating Digital Business Models as a Source of (Future) Investment Disputes” at the Frankfurt Investment Law Workshop 2019 on International Investment Law in the Age of Digitalization

9. March 2019

Co-hosting CELIS Conference – A Common European Law on Investment Screening

9. March 2019

Keynote at the International Seminar “Administrative Judicial Review and Administrative Arbitration Decisions in Foreign Investment Disputes at the University Coimbra / Portugal

17. January 2019

Round Table Discussion: Investments under Fire

13. November 2018

Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland and Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw: “International Law and the European Union in the Constitution”

23. October 2018

Beyond Achmea: The Court of Justice of the European Union and the Future of Investment Arbitration

24. April 2018

Legal supervision of public procurement in the defense and security sector. Balancing the freedom to determine the procured good with the declared aim to ensure competition in the area of complex and innovative armaments procurement

9. April 2018

Europe’s effort and Japan’s emerging role in reforming international investment law – Talk at Nagoya University Satellite Office Tokyo

6. March 2018

Talk on “A European Perspective on the Ongoing Reform Processes in International Investment Law” at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Law

24. February 2018

Ph.D. Disputation: L. Rönnelid, The emergence of routine enforcement of international investment law: Effects on investment protection and development, Uppsala University

16. February 2018

BREXIT – Implications, Chances and Challenges for the European Union and the United Kingdom in respect of Their International Trade and Investment Relations

3. February 2018

Workshop on “Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and Public-Private Partnership (PPP)”

16. January 2018

Mapping the Grey Areas: Private-public Standards Referenced in International Investment Agreements

15. January 2018

Cooperation, Coexistence, or Opposition? Investor-State dispute settlement on the basis of European comprehensive free trade agreements and the Court of Justice of the European Union

16. October 2017

Predators in the pond of jurisdiction? The EU constitutional restraints on investor-State dispute settlement provisions in European comprehensive free trade agreements.

4. October 2017

International Investment Law and International Human Rights

14. March 2017

Speaker at the Freie Universität Berlin–Indiana University Joint Speaker Series International Governance in a Multipolar Age on “The Future of Global Trade: Protectionism vs. Open Markets”

30. January 2017

The day after: Alternatives to intra-EU BITs

7. March 2016

Investor-Staat-Streitbeilegung und der Europäische Gerichtshof (Investor-State Dispute Settlement and the CJEU)

15. October 2015

Co-organization of the “German-Canadian Workshop on Investment Protection in International Agreements”

1. May 2015

Co-organization of the strategy workshop „Die deutschen Interessen im Reformprozess des Internationalen Investitionsschutzrechts: Chancen, Risiken und Herausforderungen für den deutschen Wirtschafts-, Wissenschafts- und Anwaltsstandort (German Interests in the Reform Process of International Investment Law: Opportunities, Risks and Challenges for Germany as a Place for Business and Research)

1. April 2015

Current Developments of EU Investment Policy

5. February 2015

Current Developments of EU Investment Policy

3. February 2015

Of stumbling blocks: EU Constitutional Restraints on Investor-State Dispute Settlement Provisions (ISDS) in European Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements or Why the Investment Chapter in CETA Could Fall Entirely without the Assistance of Globalization Sceptics

2. February 2015

The EU’s external trade policy – Current negotiations on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) as a possible role model for future EU agreements in the area of investment – state of play and issues to conquer

26. June 2014

Investor-State Dispute Settlements

25. June 2014

Investment Protection Clauses in TTIP

18. June 2014

Investor-state dispute settlement in EU investment agreements – Pulling the chain tighter?

15. May 2014

The EU’s International Investment Policy and Investor-State Arbitration – Current Developments, Challenges and Perspectives

27. March 2014

Balancing the Rights and Obligations of States and Investors by Marrying Foreign Investment Protection off to Sustainable Development?

5. December 2013

Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde: Would the EU’s Foreign-Investment Protection Agreements Thwart its Support for Latin America’s Social-Policy Progress?

22. November 2013

Europäische Investitionsschutzverträge mit Drittstaaten – Aktuelle Trends, Entwicklungslinien und Konfliktpunkte (European Investment Protection Treaties with Third Countries – Current Trends, Developments and Sources of Conflict)

20. November 2013

Introduction to IIA Conference

10. October 2013

Co-host and Co-chair of the International Conference “International Investment Agreements and Sustainable Development”

10. October 2013

Co-organization of the international conference “International Investment Agreements – Balancing Sustainable Development and Investment Protection. UNCTAD’s Investment Policy Framework for Sustainable Development”

1. October 2013

2nd Postgraduate and Early Professional/Academics Network of the Society of International Economic Law Conference

25. January 2013

Entwicklung des gerichtlichen Rechtsschutzes im deutschen Außenwirtschaftsrecht (The Development of Legal Protection in German Foreign Trade Law)

11. October 2012

Jurisdiction and Applicable Law in intra-EU Investment Arbitration

12. September 2011

The Future of Investor-State Arbitration and the European Union

13. June 2011

Guest Lectures in EU Law and European and International Investment Law

19. April 2011

Voraussetzungen und Perspektiven einer europäischen Investitionsschutzpolitik (Preconditions and perspectives of a Common European Investment Policy)

18. November 2010

Der (primär-)rechtliche Rahmen der Gemeinsamen Europäischen Investitionspolitik (The EU Primary Law Framework of a Common European Investment Policy)

28. September 2010

Restitution in International Investment Law

12. March 2010

Einführung in das Internationale Investitionsrecht anhand von Fallbeispielen (A Case-Study Based Introduction to International Investment Law)

17. February 2010

Beilegung von Investitionsstreitigkeiten aus deutscher Sicht: Rolle des Investorstaates und Investor-Staat-Schiedsverfahren (A German Perspective on International Investment Arbitration: The Role of the Home State and Investor-State Arbitration)

23. October 2009

Autonome und völkervertragsrechtliche Regulierung von ausländischen Direktinvestitionen in Europa (Autonomous and Contractual Regulation of Foreign Direct Investment in Europe)

18. September 2009

“International Investment Protection and EU Law – On the Eve of a European Policy on Foreign Direct Investment” at the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen Germany

1. September 2009

The EC Treaty’s Freedom of Capital Movement as an Instrument of International Investment Law?

15. June 2007

Externalisation of Effective Legal Protection against Indirect Expropriation

14. November 2005

Autonomy of EU Law

Guest Speaker at Center for International Private Enterprise’s (CIPE) Virtual Discussion on “Shaping Investment Security Policy: A Guide for Business Associations”

30. May 2023

Moderator for the Panel Discussion on “Sovereign Immunity from Execution” organised by Uppsala University, DER Juridik / DER Legal, and Westerberg & Partners.

30. April 2023

Chairman for the Panel Discussion on “Review of Foreign Direct Investment Rules and their Interplay with Competition Law” at Comp Law Nordics in Stockholm

30. March 2023

Speaker at European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE)’s Strategic Autonomy and Europe’s Shattered Single Market Webinar

30. March 2023

Speaker at the Online Conference on “Investment Screening in the European Union”

30. November 2022

Speaker at the Panel Discussion on “The Implications of the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU’s) ruling in Komstroy (formerly Energoalians) v. Republic of Moldova regarding the intra-EU non-application of the Energy Charter Treaty”

30. June 2022

Speaker at the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies’ (SNELS’s) conference on “Investment Treaties and the EU Legal Order: Litigation, Modernisation, And Sustainability,” at Lund University

30. May 2022

Moderator for Panel Discussion on “Investor State arbitration in the EU and it’s Future” at the European Society of International Law’s annual conference 2021

12. September 2021

Presentation on “The price for a seat at the ISDS reform table: CJEU’s clearance of the EU’s investment protection policy and its impact on the EU constitutional order” in Conference on Investment Courts and the Union’s Legal Order at Stockholm University

6. February 2020

Public Defence of Ph.D. Thesis of Dr Hannes Lenk at Gothenburg University

20. September 2019

Presentation on “Autonomy of EU law: A Catalyzer of Dialogue in International Economic Relations?” at King’s College London

22. March 2019

Speaker at the European Parliament Committee on International Trade (INTA) Workshop on “EU Investment Protection after the ECJ Opinion on Singapore: Questions of Competence and Coherence”

25. February 2019

Keynote at the International Seminar “Administrative Judicial Review and Administrative Arbitration Decisions in Foreign Investment Disputes at the University Coimbra / Portugal

17. January 2019

Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland and Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw: “International Law and the European Union in the Constitution”

23. October 2018

Beyond Achmea: The Court of Justice of the European Union and the Future of Investment Arbitration

24. April 2018

Europe’s effort and Japan’s emerging role in reforming international investment law – Talk at Nagoya University Satellite Office Tokyo

6. March 2018

Cooperation, Coexistence, or Opposition? Investor-State dispute settlement on the basis of European comprehensive free trade agreements and the Court of Justice of the European Union

16. October 2017

Predators in the pond of jurisdiction? The EU constitutional restraints on investor-State dispute settlement provisions in European comprehensive free trade agreements.

4. October 2017

Investor-Staat-Streitbeilegung und der Europäische Gerichtshof (Investor-State Dispute Settlement and the CJEU)

15. October 2015

Current Developments of EU Investment Policy

3. February 2015

Of stumbling blocks: EU Constitutional Restraints on Investor-State Dispute Settlement Provisions (ISDS) in European Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements or Why the Investment Chapter in CETA Could Fall Entirely without the Assistance of Globalization Sceptics

2. February 2015

Investor-state dispute settlement in EU investment agreements – Pulling the chain tighter?

15. May 2014

Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde: Would the EU’s Foreign-Investment Protection Agreements Thwart its Support for Latin America’s Social-Policy Progress?

22. November 2013

Spannungen zwischen regionalen, internationalen und nationalen Schutzgremien (Tensions between Regional, International and National Protective Bodies)

30. May 2013

Jurisdiction and Applicable Law in intra-EU Investment Arbitration

12. September 2011

The Future of Investor-State Arbitration and the European Union

13. June 2011

The Jurisdiction of Investment Tribunals in Intra-EU BIT Conflicts

14. March 2011

No equals in wrong? The Issue of Discrimination in an Environment of Illegality

4. September 2006

Die Grundfreiheiten des EG-Vertrages (The Fundamental Freedoms of the TEEC)

27. September 2004

Free Movement of Capital

Investment Screening and the Right to be Heard – The Role of Counter-Evidence Presented by Investors

9. September 2020

Investment Screening in the European Union – 12 Nov 2020 – 13 Nov 2020, Brussels

5. May 2020

CELIS Virtual Symposium 2020 – A Common European Law on Investment Screening, 29-30 April 2020

20. April 2020

Investment Screening – It Is Always Darkest Before the Dawn – Presentation at the Munich Security Conference International Law Forum 2020

13. February 2020

Public Defence of Ph.D. Thesis of Dr Hannes Lenk at Gothenburg University

20. September 2019

Presentation on “Regulating Digital Business Models as a Source of (Future) Investment Disputes” at the Frankfurt Investment Law Workshop 2019 on International Investment Law in the Age of Digitalization

9. March 2019

Co-hosting CELIS Conference – A Common European Law on Investment Screening

9. March 2019

Beyond Achmea: The Court of Justice of the European Union and the Future of Investment Arbitration

24. April 2018

Cooperation, Coexistence, or Opposition? Investor-State dispute settlement on the basis of European comprehensive free trade agreements and the Court of Justice of the European Union

16. October 2017

Predators in the pond of jurisdiction? The EU constitutional restraints on investor-State dispute settlement provisions in European comprehensive free trade agreements.

4. October 2017

Europarechtliche Determinanten des deutschen Steuerrechts (European Law Determinants of German Tax Law)

29. September 2012

The EC Treaty’s Freedom of Capital Movement as an Instrument of International Investment Law?

15. June 2007