Free Movement of Capital – Academic Conference Presentations and Chairmanships
Investment Screening and the Right to be Heard – The Role of Counter-Evidence Presented by Investors
Presentation, together with Jens H. Pohl, at ESIL International Economic Law Interest Group Online Workshop: International Economic Law between Emergencies and Reforms, 09.09.2020
Read MoreInvestment Screening in the European Union – 12 Nov 2020 – 13 Nov 2020, Brussels
International Conference on “Investment Screening in the European Union” – Academy of European Law (ERA) in collaboration with the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) From 12th to 13th November 2020, Jens Hillebrand Pohl of the Academy of European Law (ERA) will host in collabroation with Steffen Hindelang (SDU) the (in-person) conference “Investment Screening in the…
Read MoreCELIS Virtual Symposium 2020 – A Common European Law on Investment Screening, 29-30 April 2020
About CELIS Virtual Symposium 2020 The CELIS Virtual Symposium 2020 serves three purposes: training for the benefit of invited EU Member State screening authorities, exchange of opinion for purposes of identifying the scope for convergence in official practices in investment screening, and exploring approaches to teaching a Common European Law on Investment Screening. The CELIS…
Read MoreInvestment Screening – It Is Always Darkest Before the Dawn – Presentation at the Munich Security Conference International Law Forum 2020
It was a great pleasure presenting at the Munich Security Conference International Law Forum on the topic of #investmentscreening and discuss together with other trade panellists Naboth van den Broek, Kathleen Claussen, Shirin Saif, Gustav Flecke-Giammarco, and a distinguished audience. For more on this topic, please join ERA’s Jens Hillebrand Pohl and Steffen Hindelang of…
Read MorePublic Defence of Ph.D. Thesis of Dr Hannes Lenk at Gothenburg University
On 20th September, Hannes Lenk successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “The EU investment court system. A viable reform initiative?”. I had the pleasure of serving as “opponent” in the public defence at the School of Business, Economics and Law (Handelshögskolan), Department of Law (Juridiska institutionen) of the University of Gothenburg. The examination committee consisted…
Read MorePresentation 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
Presentation on “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, 09.3.2019, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany”
Read MoreCo-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 MoreBeyond Achmea: The Court of Justice of the European Union and the Future of Investment Arbitration
What does the CJEU’s Achmea judgement mean for the future of investor-State arbitration in Europe and beyond? Upon invitation of the Centre for European Research and the Department of Law of the University of Gothenburg, Steffen Hindelang of the University of Southern Denmark gave a talk on implications of the CJEU’s recent judgment on the…
Read MoreCooperation, 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
Presentation at the Institute of European Law (Institutet för Europeisk rätt) at the University of Stockholm
Read MorePredators in the pond of jurisdiction? The EU constitutional restraints on investor-State dispute settlement provisions in European comprehensive free trade agreements.
Investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS), once developed as ‘last straw’ for foreign investors to gain access to justice in the forgotten corners of this world, grew out of its niche existence – for the better or the worse. In a remarkable metamorphosis ISDS made its way not only into trade agreements among what was once called…
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