Teaching International Investment Arbitration Series

India, Investment Arbitration, Teaching International Investment Arbitration Series

(South Asian University)/ /2 Comments

I have been teaching international investment arbitration (IIA) in India for the last 15 years with a focus on its substantive principles contained in numerous bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and the investment chapters of free trade agreements (FTAs). I have taught at the following Indian law schools/universities: the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), National…

International Legal Theory and Teaching, Japan, Teaching International Investment Arbitration Series, WTO

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The World Trade Organization (“WTO“) dispute settlement is akin to a distant cousin for the investment law community. Many investment lawyers know little about it except that it exists. It operates under a different treaty framework and involves different procedures from investment treaty arbitration. However, it is one of the two most frequently used international…

Teaching International Investment Arbitration Series

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In the past 20 years, alongside my legal practice, I have taught international investment law and arbitration (IILA) in a number of capacities and through various formats: as the author of a textbook (Rules and Practices of International Investment Law and Arbitration) and of a MOOC, in practice-oriented trainings for professionals, or in masters programs….

Teaching International Investment Arbitration Series

(Durham Law School)/ /1 Comment

As a student in Ireland, US, and Sweden, I came to learn that I was not only studying contracts, or torts, or constitutional law, but rather “contracts with Professor Hedley”, “torts with Professor O’Callaghan”, “constitutional law with O’Mahony”, and so on. Fast-forward some years later, my own students do not take the general course of…

Teaching International Investment Arbitration Series

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Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)

The School of Law at SOAS University of London is unique among Law Schools in London. We have a distinct ‘Southern’ perspective in our course content, and we take a socio-legal dimension in our engagement with the law and how we teach law to our students.  We bring these to our teaching on the international…

Teaching International Investment Arbitration Series

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Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)

Geography, culture, politics, economic conditions, and population demographics, in my view, account for very different narratives and reactions to the teaching of international investment arbitration.  In the last 13 years, I have had the distinct experience of in-person and/or virtual teaching of a course and/or guest lecturing international investment arbitration in a wide range of…

Teaching International Investment Arbitration Series

(Australian National University)/ /1 Comment

Kluwer Arbitration Blog is pleased to launch with this post an occasional series offering global perspectives on approaches to teaching international investment arbitration. The aim of the series is to illuminate the various choices that teachers must make when determining the substance, aims and approach they will adopt to teaching this topic, and the challenges…