European Parliament – National Parliaments Topics: Multi-Level-Parliamentarism, EU Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law Relating to the Organisation of the State Consultancy Expert-level Roundtable with the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on New Generation IIAs: Triangulating Regulatory Freedom, Investor Protection, and Investor Accountability 30. April 2023 Expert-level Roundtable at the Department for Promotion of Industry and Trade (DPIIT) of the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Foreign Direct Investment Screening Mechanism in a Comparative Perspective 30. April 2023 Expert Witness for the Hearing in the German Parliament on “Ratification of the Free Trade Agreement with Canada (CETA)” 12. October 2022 Special Session at the Centre for Trade and Investment Law India on Pro’s and Con’s of Merging Trade and Investment – Experience from Recent EU Negotiations with Canada, Vietnam, Singapore 9. April 2022 Arbitrator in Donatas Aleksandravicius v. the Kingdom of Denmark, ICSID Case No. ARB/20/30 9. January 2021 Study for the European Parliament on Stocktaking of Investment Protection Provisions in EU Agreements and Member States’ Bilateral Investment Treaties and Their Impact on the Coherence of EU Policy (in collaboration with Jurgita Baur) 18. March 2019 Study for the European Parliament on Free Trade Agreement between the EU and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam submitted to the European Parliament (in collaboration with Theoman M. Hagemeyer and Simon Richtmann) 18. April 2018 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 Study for the European Parliament on The Investment Chapters of the EU’s International Trade and Investment Agreements in a Comparative Perspective (in collaboration with Carl-Philipp Sassenrath) 18. September 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 Study for the European Parliament on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (‘ISDS’) and Alternatives of Dispute Resolution in International Investment Law 18. September 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 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 Study for the European Parliament on Stocktaking of Investment Protection Provisions in EU Agreements and Member States’ Bilateral Investment Treaties and Their Impact on the Coherence of EU Policy (in collaboration with Jurgita Baur) 18. March 2019 Study for the European Parliament on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (‘ISDS’) and Alternatives of Dispute Resolution in International Investment Law 18. September 2014 Der Einfluss der Grundfreiheiten auf direkte Steuern (The Impact of EU Law on Direct Taxation) 25. April 2014 Articles 223 to 234 TFEU, including Article 14 TEU (European Parliament) 1. January 2013 Conference Presentations EU Law II 26. June 2020 EU Law 1. April 2019 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 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 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 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