Areas of Law
Republic of Poland v PL Holdings S.Á.R.L, legal opinion for submission to the Swedish Supreme Court (Högsta domstolen)
More Information on the Case Republic of Poland ./. PL Holdings S.Á.R.L, Case No. T 1569-19 The opinion deals with questions such as whether an EU Member State court is required to set aside an intra-EU investor-State arbitral award within the respective national procedures providing for setting aside due to a lack of a valid…
Read MoreThe Interrelations between Investment Treaty Standards and Other International Legal Regimes
Presentation on “The Interrelations between Investment Treaty Standards and Other International Legal Regimes (Human Rights, Sustainable Development, Cultural Property, Indigenous Peoples and other Non-Economic Interests) as a Rule of Law Problem”, together with Patricia Stöbener Presented within the meeting of the ILA Committee on “Rule of Law and International Investment Law” – Workshop “Investment Protection…
Read MoreStocktaking of investment protection provisions in EU agreements and Member States’ bilateral investment treaties and their impact on the coherence of EU policy
Co-hosting CELIS Conference – A Common European Law on Investment Screening
Co-hosting an international conference on “A Common European Law on Investment Screening – Foreign Investment in Times of Change” toghether with Andreas Moberg of Gothenburg University Daimler, the harbour terminal in Zeebrugge, or Saxo Bank are only three recent examples of controversially discussed company takeovers in Europe. The “elephant in the room” is China and…
Read MoreFreedom and Communication – The Constitutional Safeguarding of Communicative Self-determination in a Networked Society
Defence Procurement between the Purchaser’s Freedom of Determination and the Legislative Aim of Ensuring Competition
Debate: A Common European Law on Investment Screening?
Infrastructure Service Luxembourg S.A.R.L., and Energia Termosolar B.V. (formerly “Antin”) v. Spain, preparing a legal opinion for the Kingdom of Spain on the compatibility of the investor-state dispute resolution rules in the Energy Charter Treaty with Union law for submission to a US federal court
More Information on the Case Expert Declarations in Support of Spain’s Motion to Dismiss Petition to Enforce Arbitral Award in Infrastructure Services Luxembourg SARL, and Energia Termosolar BV (formerly Antin) v. Kingdom of Spain on the compatibility of investor-State arbitration on the basis of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) with EU law after the CJEU…
Read MoreConceptualisation and Application of the Principle of Autonomy of EU Law – The CJEU’s Judgement in Achmea Put in Perspective
Steffen Hindelang: Conceptualisation and Application of the Principle of Autonomy of EU Law – The CJEU’s Judgement in Achmea Put in Perspective. In: European Law Review, 44 (3), pp. 383-400, 2019. AbstractIt seemed that Court of Justice of the European Union wanted to make it short and sweet: It took the Grand Chamber in its…
Read MoreThe Limited Immediate Effects of CJEU’s Achmea Judgement
Steffen Hindelang: The Limited Immediate Effects of CJEU’s Achmea Judgement. VerfBlog, 2018/3/09, 2018. AbstractIt seemed that Court of Justice of the European Union wanted to make it short and sweet: It took the Grand Chamber in its Achmea Decision less than fifteen pages to conclude that Investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS), as we know it, shall…
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