Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s Investment Chapter the New ‘Gold Standard’?
The L. Yves Fortier Chair in International Commercial Law and International Arbitration, the Private Justice and the Rule of Law research group, and the McGill Arbitration Student Society welcome José Enrique Alvarez, Herbert & Rose Rubin Professor of International Law, NYU.
This event is accredited for 1.25 hours of continuing legal education by a recognized provider.
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Abstract
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.
About the speaker
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.
The event will be followed by a cocktail in the Atrium.
