Free Trade and Investment

Topics:
International Economic Law, WTO, Investment Protection, Investor-State-Dispute Settlement, Common Commercial Policy of the EU

Consultancy

Expert Declaration on Certain Issues in Public International Law before the Federal Court of Australia

24. July 2023

Expert Declaration on Certain Issues of International Investment Law and EU Law

30. June 2023

Expert Declaration on Certain Issues of International Investment Law and EU Law in the Proceeding before the Federal Court of Australia.

17. April 2023

Expert Declaration Addressing Certain Questions on Rules and Principles of EU Law before US Federal Court

7. April 2023

Expert Declaration on Certain Issues of International Investment and EU Law

1. March 2023

Two Expert Declarations in Enforcement Proceedings before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in the case of BayWa r.e. AG v. Spain

10. February 2023

Expert Declaration on Issues in International Energy Law and EU Law before Svea Court of Appeal

18. December 2022

Expert Declaration in Enforcement Proceedings before the Swedish Supreme Court in the case of Republiken Polen v. PL Holdings S.à.r.l.

14. December 2022

Expert Declaration on Certain Issues of International Investment Law and EU Law

27. November 2022

Expert Witness for the Hearing in the German Parliament on “Ratification of the Free Trade Agreement with Canada (CETA)”

12. October 2022

Several Expert Declarations in Enforcement Proceedings before US Federal Court

24. September 2022

Expert Declaration in Enforcement Proceedings before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in the case of RWE Renewables GmbH and RWE Renewables Iberia S.A.U. v. Spain

16. September 2022

Expert Declaration in Enforcement Proceedings before US Federal Court in RREEF Infrastructure (G.P.) Limited & ANOR v. Spain

15. August 2022

Expert Declarations in Enforcement Proceedings before US Federal Court

5. August 2022

Two Expert Declarations in Enforcement Proceedings before US Federal Court

1. July 2022

Expert Declaration on Certain Issues of International Investment Law and EU Law Proceedings before SCC

16. June 2022

Expert Declaration on questions of public international law

10. June 2022

Expert Declaration in ICSID Proceedings

30. December 2021

Expert Declaration in Proceedings before the Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt in the case of Slovak Republic v. EUREKO B.V., Case No. 26 SchH 11/10

10. May 2021

Expert Declaration in Proceedings before the Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt in the case of Slovak Republic v. Achmea B.V. (formally EUREKO B.V.), Case No. 26 Sch 3/13

11. February 2021

9REN Holdings S.À.R.L. v. Spanien, 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

9. January 2021

Expert Declaration in Enforcement Proceedings before a US Federal Court in the case of Eiser Infrastructure Limited et al. v. Spain

5. August 2020

RREEF Infrastructure G.P. (Limited) et al. v. Spain, 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

26. June 2020

Expert Declaration on EU Law and Public International Law

28. February 2020

Preparation of a legal expert opinion in support of Croatia on the relationship of various provisions of the German Code of Civil Procedure (ZPO) to EU law for submission to the OLG Frankfurt

18. February 2020

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

13. February 2020

Service at the ICSID Panel of Conciliators designated by the Federal Republic of Germany (2019-2025)

15. December 2019

Republic of Poland v PL Holdings S.Á.R.L, legal opinion for submission to the Swedish Supreme Court (Högsta domstolen)

23. November 2019

Nextera Energy Global Holdings B.V. and Nextera Energy Spain Holding B.V. v. Spain, preparation of 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

23. November 2019

Co-Rapporteur at 2019 UNCTAD High-Level International Investment Agreements Conference

13. November 2019

Two Expert Declarations before US Federal Court

21. July 2019

Foresight Luxembourg Solar 1 S.À.R.L., Foresight Luxembourg Solar 2 S.À.R.L., Greentech Energy Systems a/s, (Now known as Athena Investments a/s), GWM Renewable Energy I s.p.a., GWM Renewable Energy II s.p.a. v. Spain, preparation of 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

6. May 2019

Masdar Solar & Wind Cooperatief U.A. v. Spain, preparation of 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

17. April 2019

European Parliament INTA Workshop: EU Investment Protection after the ECJ Opinion on Singapore: Questions of Competence and Coherence

20. February 2019

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

27. December 2018

Eiser Infrastructure Limited and Energía Solar Luxembourg S.à r.l. v. Spain, preparation of 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

15. December 2018

Expert Declaration on Issues of Investor-State Arbitration, the Energy Charter Treaty and EU Law

3. November 2018

Expert Declaration in Enforcement Proceedings before US Federal Court in InfraRed Environmental Infrastructure GP Limited et al. v. Spain

9. September 2018

Presentation on Current Developments in International Investment Law at the Spring Conference of the German-Nordic Lawyers’ Association

11. June 2018

Testimony in the German Parliament, Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy, on a Multilateral Investment Court

6. June 2018

New Study on Free Trade Agreement between the EU and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam submitted to the European Parliament by Hindelang / Hagemeyer / Richtmann

30. April 2018

Co-Rapporteur for the Break-Out-Session „Towards a global reform effort – improving dispute settlement“ in the context of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) High-level International Investment Agreement Conference 2017: Moving to the Next Phase of IIA Reform

11. October 2017

Co-Rapporteur of the Break-out-session „Consolidating the IIA network“ in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) High-level International Investment Agreement Conference 2017: Moving to the Next Phase of IIA Reform

11. October 2017

Legal Expert Opinion for an EU Member State on Limits Flowing from EU Law for Conducting Third Country Investment Screening

28. April 2017

Reviewer for G. Giappichelli Editore in International Law

4. November 2016

Constitutional and EU Law Questions relating to CETA

5. September 2016

Testimony for the German Parliament (Bundestag), Committee on Economics and Engery on CETA

5. September 2016

Panel Discussion at the Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations, in collaboration with the Bavarian Industry Association on “TTIP and TPP”

28. June 2016

Panel Discussion at the Canadian Embassy Berlin on CETA

13. April 2016

Expert Panel Member at Dialogue Forum Free Trade: Joint Fact Finding on Investment Protection

11. April 2016

Expert Hearing of the Joint Working Group of the Bundestag Group and European Parliament Group of the Greens on Matters of Constitutional and EU law of the CETA-Agreement

15. December 2015

Study for the European Parliament on The Investment Chapters of the EU’s International Trade and Investment Agreements in a Comparative Perspective

21. November 2015

Expert Opinion for the German Foreign Office, National Action Plan for Business and Human Rights, Trade and Investment Agreements

30. October 2015

Expert Opinion for the German Advisory Council on the Environment, The Environmental Report 2016, Chapter on TTIP

26. October 2015

Expert Opinion for the Hessische Landtag (State Parliament of Hessen), Committee on European Affairs, to „Freihandelsabkommen TTIP, CETA und TiSA“ (Free Trade Agreements TTIP, CETA and TiSA)

4. July 2015

Keynote Speech at the 310th meeting of the Committee on Trade Policy of the Association of German Chemical Industry on “Modernizing International Investment Protection in EU Free Trade Agreements”

2. June 2015

Legal Expert for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

29. April 2015

TTIP Hearing European Parliament

27. January 2015

Expert Opinion for the Bundestag (German Federal Parliament), Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy, Hearing on the planned European-Canadian Free Trade Agreement CETA

15. December 2014

CETA Hearing at the German Bundestag

15. December 2014

Providing an Expert Opinion on the Question of Provisional Application of a Treaty Jointly with a German Public International Law Scholar

28. November 2014

Panel Discussion of the „Tagesspiegel“ (a German newspaper) in the Series „Wissenschaft trifft Politik“ (Research meets Politics) on “TTIP” together with Renate Künast, MdB (MP), Professor Dr. Tanja Börzel, Freie Universität Berlin, and Jürgen Hardt, MdB (MP)

26. November 2014

Panel Discussion at the Third European Salon of Freie Universität Berlin

20. November 2014

Kick-off talk at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin on recent developments on CETA and other trade agreements

13. April 2014

Expert Opinion for the European Parliament, Committee on International Trade, to „Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions in the EU’s International Investment Agreements“

1. April 2014

Keynote Speech at a Symposium hosted by the Representations of the States Baden-Württemberg, Hamburg and Lower Saxony to the German Federation, Berlin

1. January 2014

Providing a Strategy Study for an EU Member State Government Relating to the Current Status of Investment Treaties among EU Member States and Possible Alternatives Jointly with an International Law Firm and German EU law scholar

28. November 2013

Legal Expert Report for an EU Member State on the Question of Compatibility of Intra-EU and Third Country Bilateral Investment Treaties with EU Law Jointly with a German EU law scholar

28. November 2011

Providing an Expert Opinion for an EU Member State Government in the Course of Legal Proceedings in a German Court Relating to the Challenge of an Investment Tribunal’s Award on Jurisdiction jointly with a German EU Law Scholar

28. November 2011

Publications

Editorship: YSEC Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions (Series co-editor with Andres Moberg), Springer

18. November 2023

Risking the Rule of Law? The Relationship between Substantive Investment Protection Standards, Human Rights, and Sustainable Development (together with Patricia Sarah Stöbener de Mora und Niels Lachmann)

18. August 2023

Report on the CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (in collaboration with Jens Hillebrand Pohl)

18. January 2023

Noch einen Nachschlag gefällig? Der Vorschlag der Bundesregierung zu einer Interpretationserklärung zum CETA-Abkommen und deren Auswirkungen auf die Handelspolitik (Want another serving? The German Government’s Proposal for an Interpretative Declaration on the CETA Agreement and its Implications for Trade Policy) (in collaboration with Julia Nassl)l)

18. December 2022

Art 107 AEUV – Bezug zum WTO Recht (Art. 107 TFEU – Relationship with WTO rules (anti-subsidy rules),

18. November 2022

The Art of Casting Political Dissent in Law: The EU’s Framework for Screening of Foreign Direct Investment

11. September 2020

Towards a “Common European Law on Investment Screening (CELIS)

10. September 2020

A Complex Setting of Cooperation and (potential) Conflict – Regulation (EU) 2019/452 in a Doctrinal Perspective

10. September 2020

The Price for a Seat at the ISDS Reform Table – CJEU’s clearance of the EU’s investment protection policy in Opinion 1/17 and its impact on the EU constitutional order

3. March 2020

Stocktaking of investment protection provisions in EU agreements and Member States’ bilateral investment treaties and their impact on the coherence of EU policy

27. March 2019

Defence Procurement between the Purchaser’s Freedom of Determination and the Legislative Aim of Ensuring Competition

25. February 2019

Debate: A Common European Law on Investment Screening?

4. February 2019

Conceptualisation and Application of the Principle of Autonomy of EU Law – The CJEU’s Judgement in Achmea Put in Perspective

14. October 2018

The Limited Immediate Effects of CJEU’s Achmea Judgement

9. March 2018

Enemy at the Gates? Die aktuellen Änderungen der Investitionsprüfvorschriften in der Außenwirtschaftsverordnung im Lichte des Unionsrechts (Enemy at he Gates? Recent Changes in the German rules on Investment Screening in the Light of EU Law)

13. November 2017

Study for the European Parliament on In Pursuit of an International Investment Court. Recently Negotiated Investment Chapters in EU Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements in Comparative Perspective (in collaboration with Teoman M. Hagemeyer)

18. July 2017

In Pursuit of an International Investment Court. Recently Negotiated Investment Chapters in EU Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements in Comparative Perspective

4. July 2017

Umfassende Wirtschafts- und Handelsabkommen – Das Recht der Happy Few? (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreements – The Law of the Happy Few?)

1. June 2017

The Day After: Alternatives to Intra-EU BITs

1. December 2016

Towards a More Comprehensive Approach in International Investment Law

21. January 2016

Conclusion and Outlook: Whither International Investment Law?

21. January 2016

Shifting Paradigms in International Investment Law – More Balanced, Less Isolated, Increasingly Diversified

21. January 2016

The Intersection of Parallel Lines: How Foreign-Investment Protection Affects Regional Social-Justice Policy

4. January 2016

The Foundations of International Investment Law – Bringing Theory into Practice, Zachary Douglas, Joost Pauwelyn, and Jorge E. Viñuales (eds), Oxford University Press, 2014

1. January 2016

Editorial: Realpolitik statt Pseudo-Revolution: Aktuelle Reformvorschläge im Investitionsschutzrecht (Op-ed: Realpolitik instead of Pseudo-Revolution: Current Reform Proposals in Investment Protection)

12. November 2015

Essentials of a Modern Investment Protection Regime – Objectives and Recommendations for Action

1. October 2015

The Investment Chapters of the EU’s International Trade and Investment Agreements in a Comparative Perspective

29. September 2015

Grundzüge eines modernen Investitionsschutzes – Ziele und Handlungsempfehlungen – Ein realpolitischer Vorschlag zur Reform des Investitionsschutzes zwischen CETA-Text und den Kommissionsvorschlägen zu TTIP (Essentials of a Modern Investment Protection Regime – Objectives and Recommendations for Action)

1. September 2015

Re-Organizing Europe’s Judicial Power through the Backdoor?

8. March 2015

Repellent Forces: The CJEU and Investor-State Dispute Settlement

1. March 2015

Study for the European Parliament on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (‘ISDS’) and Alternatives of Dispute Resolution in International Investment Law

18. September 2014

Study on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (‘ISDS’) and Alternatives of Dispute Resolution in International Investment Law

4. September 2014

Investor-state dispute settlement – Pulling the chain tighter

17. April 2014

The Autonomy of the European Legal Order – EU Constitutional Limits to Investor-State Arbitration on the Basis of Future EU Investment-related Agreements

21. March 2013

How "new" EU Member States should approach investment claims by EU investors

1. January 2013

Circumventing Primacy of EU Law and the CJEU’s Judicial Monopoly by Resorting to Dispute Resolution Mechanisms Provided for in Inter-se Treaties? The Case of Intra-EU Investment Arbitration

1. April 2012

Member State BITs – There’s Still (Some) Life in the Old Dog Yet. Incompatibility of Existing Member State BITs with EU Law and Possible Remedies

16. February 2012

International Investment Law and EU Law

1. December 2011

Der primärrechtliche Rahmen einer EU-Investitionsschutzpolitik: Zulässigkeit und Grenzen von Investor-Staat-Schiedsverfahren aufgrund künftiger EU Abkommen (The EU Primary Law Framework on a Common European Investment Policy: Admissibility and Limits of Investor-State-Arbitration on the Basis of Future EU Investment Treaties)

10. June 2011

Restitution and Compensation – Reconstructing the Relationship in International Investment Law

9. June 2011

The EU’s Common Investment Policy – Connecting the Dots: Origins, Trends, and Perspectives

11. January 2011

Die Gemeinsame Europäische Investitionspolitik – Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen?; Basis und Entwicklungslinien der Unionskompetenz zur Regelung ausländischer Investitionen (The Common European Investment Policy – Old Wine in New Skins?; The Basis and Development Directions of the EU Regulatory Competence on Foreign Investment)

8. October 2010

Internationaler Investitionsschutz und Europarecht (International Investment Protection and EU Law)

8. October 2010

Turkey – Soon to Face a Wave of International Investment Arbitrations? – Turkey’s Recent Foreign Direct Investment Hype and the Challenge to Treat the Newcomers in Accordance with the Standards Required by International Investment Instruments

1. October 2009

Direktinvestitionen und die Europäische Kapitalverkehrsfreiheit im Drittstaatenverhältnis (Direct Investments and the European Freedom of Capital Movement in a Third Country Context)

4. September 2009

Protection against Indirect Expropriation under National and International Legal Systems

1. May 2009

Wie viel Freiheit wagen? Das Verhältnis von EG Kapitalverkehrs- und Niederlassungsfreiheit und die Reglementierung von Direktinvestitionen in und aus Drittstaaten (The Relationship of the EC Freedoms of Capital Movement and Establishment und the Regulation of Direct Investments Originating from or Directed to Third Countries)

29. January 2008

The EC Treaty’s Freedom of Capital Movement as an Instrument of International Investment Law? The Scope of Article 56 (1) TEC in a Third Country Context and the Influence of Competing Freedoms

10. December 2007

Perenos za predely strany jeffektivnoj pravovoj zashhity protiv kosvennoj jekspropriacii

1. March 2007

The Missing Bit – To Be Substituted by BITs? The Inadequacy of Russian Law as an Example for Indirect Expropriation

1. March 2007

“No Equals in Wrong?” The Issue of Discrimination in an Environment of Illegality. Some Thoughts to Encourage Discussion

1. December 2006

Externalization of Effective Legal Protection against Indirect Expropriation – Can the Legal Order of Developing Countries Live up to the Standards Required by International Investment Agreements? A Disenchanting Comparative Analysis

1. February 2006

Das Internationale Investitionsrecht – Reflexionen über einen ausgebliebenen Konstitutionalisierungsprozess (International Investment Law – Reflexions on a Failed Constitutionalisation)

1. January 2005

Bilateral Investment Treaties, Custom and a Healthy Investment Climate – The Question of Whether BITs Influence Customary International Law Revisited

1. October 2004

Conference Presentations

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