It has been a pleasure to present on defining foreign investments in Uppsala, Sweden at the CELIS Forum on Investment Screening earlier today. My presentation covered investments subject to FDI screening, cases, treaties and international coordination of the investment concept, territorial nexus and jurisdictional overlap. Having examined international investment agreements and ISDS cases, I drew…
On 16 December 2021, I had a privilege of co-chairing with Vladimir Kozin (UNODC) an event featuring key recommendations of the forthcoming report on corruption and foreign direct investments and corruption and investor-state dispute settlement. This post summarises key developments, which led to these findings and the document itself. Resolution 8/9 (2019) of State Parties…
It has been my honour to play a key role in convening the first high-level Expert Group Meeting on Corruption and Foreign investments organised by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the UN Conference on Trade and Development on 18-19 May 2021. The event brought together over 140 experts from States, intergovernmental organisations,…
In my contribution to the UNCTAD’s Virtual IIA Conference 2020: “IIA Reform in Times of COVID-19,” I highlighted a few projects we recently concluded or are currently working on. Below is a video recording of the presentation and its transcript. Every crisis is also an opportunity. In the area of international investment law, the opportunity…
On 30 April 2020, I spoke at a webinar on the interaction between public international law and the EU Investment screening mechanism organised by Maastricht University and the University of Southern Denmark, which was a part of the Common European Law on Investment Screening (CELIS) project. In 2019, the European Union established a framework for…