Testimony in the German Parliament, Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy, on a Multilateral Investment Court
On 6 June 2018, at the invitation of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy of the German Bundestag, Steffen Hindelang testified on the planned establishment of a Multilateral Investment Court.
In his written statement, he came to the conclusion that the establishment of a "Multilateral Investment Court" ("MIC") can make a key contribution to strengthening the legitimacy and integrity of international investor-state dispute resolution. A prerequisite for such a contribution would be, among other things, that the members (judges) of a MIC are not allowed to exercise ancillary offices in the field of international investment law and that functioning domestic courts are approached first by a foreign investor. A MIC would provide subsidiary protection only; a model tried and tested with regard to the European Court of Human Rights.
The written statement (in German language) in full length:
Video of the testimonies in the German Bundestag
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