Academic Conference Presentations and Chairmanships Free Trade and Investment Co-Host and Chairman at CELIS Conference in Washington DC on “Transatlantic Ties: A Strategic Dialogue on US-EU investment screening and economic security” 24. May 2024 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 Free Speech in the Digital Age Öffentliche Dienstleistungen und Internet in Deutschland (Public Services and the Internet in Germany) 21. May 2012 Internet Legislation and Regulation through the Eyes of the Constitution 25. October 2011
