Selected talks and presentations

This chronological list includes selected public lectures, conference presentations, seminars, training programmes and chaired events by Professor Yarik Kryvoi on international arbitration, investor–State dispute settlement, investment law, Russian law, sanctions, corruption, cybersecurity, international administrative law and legal education.

Presentation slides: where slides are available, a clearly marked “View slides” link appears at the end of the entry.

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2026

• Speaker Tax-Related Investment Disputes and Investor State Dispute Settlement, BIICL, London (hybrid), 25 November 2026.
• Speaker State Responsibility and Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Nishimura & Asahi and Arbitration Lab, Tokyo (hybrid), 13 November 2026.
• Co-moderator Who Decides? Rethinking the Role of the Arbitrator in the Age of AI, keynote by Emilia Onyema, London Summer Arbitration School, Osborne Clarke, London, 19 June 2026.
• Panellist Careers in International Arbitration, London Summer Arbitration School, London, 19 June 2026.
• Co-moderator Compensation and International Dispute Settlement, keynote by Martins Paparinskis, London Summer Arbitration School, London, 16 June 2026.
• Speaker Investor-State Arbitration and the Global South, BIICL, London International Disputes Week, London, 3 June 2026.
• Roundtable speaker Countering ISDS Claims: Old Tensions and New Defences, BIICL, London, 30 April 2026.
• Study-launch speaker Technology Disputes and Investment Treaty Arbitration, BIICL and Cooley, London, 10 March 2026.
• Chair Clash of the Titans: Insolvent Sovereigns against International Investment Treaty Arbitrations, seminar featuring Deepti Panda, The Global South Network, online, 25 February 2026.
• Panellist Transparency in Arbitration, Discussion following the keynote by Anne Peters, Basel Winter Arbitration School, VISCHER, Basel, February 2026.

2025

• Public lecture Corruption Allegations in International Arbitration, Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (CADR), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 26 November 2025. View slides ↗
• Presentation Arbitration Reform and Dispute Resolution Frameworks, International Conference on Justice, Ministry of Justice, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 23 November 2025. View slides ↗
• Speaker State-Owned Enterprises and International Investment Law, BIICL and Withers, London, 5 November 2025.
• Study-launch speaker Annulment of Investor-State Arbitration Awards in Domestic Courts, BIICL and Baker Botts, London, 15 October 2025.
• Opening keynote conversation Legal Training and Technology Workshop, With Diana Laurillard, BIICL, London, 15 October 2025.
• Welcome address Evolving Standards of Investment Protection, Forty-Fourth Investment Treaty Forum Public Conference, BIICL, London (hybrid), 10 October 2025.
• Presentation Arbitration Reform and Dispute Resolution Frameworks, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, India, 15 September 2025. View slides ↗
• Presentation The Competition for Critical Resources: Recent Developments in the Mining Sector in Africa, Quadrant Chambers, London, 4 June 2025.
• Presentation Russia-Related Disputes, International Sanctions and Differing Perspectives on Anti-Suit Relief: Supporting Arbitration or Overstepping Boundaries?, Linklaters, London, 2 June 2025.
• Speaker International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance, BIICL and Womble Bond Dickinson, London, 12 March 2025.

2024

• Lecturer The Decline of the Rule of Law in Russia: From Telephone Law to Asset Seizures, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and BIICL, Tromsø, 9 December 2024.
• Presentation Allegations of Corruption in Investor-State Contracts and Arbitration, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer, Norway, 6 December 2024. View slides ↗
• Conference organiser Contracts with States in International Investment Law, Investment Treaty Forum, BIICL, 19 April 2024.
• Roundtable chair UNCITRAL Working Group III: Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform, BIICL, London, 13 May 2024.
• Speaker Strategies and Solutions after UniCredit v RCA, London International Disputes Week, London, 6 June 2024.
• Presentation Sanctions Policies and Procedures: A Cross-Country Comparison, Asia Pacific Initiative, International House of Japan, Tokyo, 5 August 2024. View slides ↗
• Presentation Corruption in Investor-State Contracts and Arbitration, Workshop on international investment contracts, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer, 5–6 August 2024.
• Speaker Performance Requirement Prohibitions in International Investment Agreements, BIICL and Steptoe, London, 18 January 2024.

2023

• Speaker Impact of Sanctions on International Arbitration, Investment Treaty Forum event hosted by Latham & Watkins, London, 4 July 2023.
• Public lecture Learning Design for Legal Education, National Law University, Delhi, India, 4 December 2023. View slides ↗
• Class Effect of Economic Sanctions on Investor-State Arbitration, Rashtriya Raksha University Investment Arbitration Academy, Gujarat, India, 6 December 2023.
• Study launch Tax-related Measures in Investor-State Arbitration, WilmerHale, London, 7 December 2023.
• Presentation Key Findings of the UNODC Study on Corruption Allegations in ISDS, UNCITRAL Working Group III, Vienna, 23–27 January 2023.
• Study launch Provisional Measures in Investor-State Arbitration, White & Case, London, 18 January 2023.
• Co-organiser Basel Winter Arbitration School, Basel, Switzerland, February 2023.
• Presentation Evidence of Corruption in ISDS: Key Recent Trends, 6th Basel Arbitration & Crime Conference, Basel, 5 May 2023. View slides ↗
• Presentation Lessons from Past Compensation Commissions, London International Disputes Week, London, 18 May 2023.
• Special lecture Three Dimensions of Inequality in Investor-State Arbitration, Nagoya University, Japan, 25 May 2023.
• Co-organiser and speaker The Geopolitical Divide, Norm Conflict and Public-Private Partnership in Cybersecurity Governance, Tokyo, Japan, 26 May 2023.

2022

• Presentation Approaches to Corruption in Recent Investment Arbitration Cases, Belt and Road High-level Dialogue on International Commercial Arbitration, Beijing (virtual), 8 December 2022.
• Presentation Sanctions Against Russia and Their Impact on Arbitration, 12th Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference, Prague, 20 October 2022.
• Speaker Revised ICSID Arbitration Rules: Key Changes, BIICL and DLA Piper, London, 15 September 2022.
• Debate participant Corruption and Other Illegalities, 5th Vienna Investment Arbitration Debate, University of Vienna, 8 September 2022.
• Presentation Corruption and Asset Recovery in Investor-State Disputes, Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, Cambridge, 6 September 2022.
• Presentation Investments Subject to FDI Screening, CELIS Forum on Investment Screening, Uppsala University, 3 June 2022. View slides ↗
• Panel chair The New Type of M&A Investment Arbitration: Emerging Energy Transition Disputes, Dispute Resolution in M&A Transactions, Warsaw, 27 May 2022.
• Panel chair National Security Regime and FDI, BIICL, London, 12 May 2022.
• Presentation Corruption in International Investment Agreements and Investor-State Dispute Settlement, World Bank, ASIL and OECD symposium, Vienna, 29 April 2022.
• Conference organiser Overlapping Treaty Regimes in International Investment Law, Thirty-Seventh ITF Public Conference, BIICL, 22 April 2022.
• Report presentation Definition of Foreign Investment and Foreign Investors for Purposes of Dispute Resolution, American Bar Association roundtable for the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan, 15 April 2022. View slides ↗

2021

• Event organiser Corruption and Foreign Direct Investments, Ninth Conference of the States Parties to UNCAC, Sharm El-Sheikh, 13–17 December 2021.
• Presentation Developments at UNCITRAL Working Group III: ISDS Reform, Practising Law Institute, United States (virtual), 18 November 2021.
• Conference organiser and speaker Time Limits in International Investment Law, Thirty-Sixth ITF Public Conference, BIICL, 22 October 2021.
• Presentation Costs and Their Recovery in Investor-State Arbitration: Examining New Empirical Evidence, Hong Kong Arbitration Week, 26 October 2021.
• Presentation Responding to Public and Private Cyberattacks: Self-Defence, Countermeasures and Jurisdiction, University of Granada, Spain, 16 September 2021.
• Presentation Sovereign Wealth Funds and International Dispute Resolution, BIICL and Withers, 14 September 2021.
• Presentation Corruption in International Investment Agreements and Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Society of International Economic Law and Bocconi University, 9 July 2021.
• Expert meeting convener The Role of Investor-State Tribunals in Combating Corruption, UNODC and UNCTAD, 18–19 May 2021. View slides ↗
• Study presentation Damages, Costs and Duration of Investment Treaty Arbitration, BIICL and Allen & Overy, 14 May 2021.
• Presentation Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Private Adjudication Dressed in Public Clothes?, Vilnius University, May 2021. View slides ↗
• Presentation Admission, Regulation and Operation of Arbitral Institutions: A Comparative Perspective, Great Britain-China Centre workshop, January 2021.
• Study presentation Empirical Study: Annulment in ICSID Arbitration, BIICL and Baker Botts, 28 January 2021.

2020

• Speaker Arbitrability and Public Policy Considerations, Great Britain-China Centre seminar, 16 December 2020.
• Conference organiser State Regulatory Powers and Their Limits, Thirty-Fourth ITF Public Conference, BIICL, 10–11 September 2020.
• Conference organiser Inaugural Africa Arbitration Day, BIICL, Queen Mary University of London and Babcock University, 3 September 2020.
• Speaker Termination of Intra-EU BITs: Legal and Practical Consequences, ITF BIICL webinar, 1 June 2020.
• Speaker Government Response to the Pandemic: Balancing Public Health and Investment Protection, ITF BIICL webinar, 7 May 2020.
• Presentation Corruption and Money Laundering as a National Security Threat, Academy of European Law, Brussels, 29–30 April 2020.
• Study presentation Corporate Restructuring and Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Investment Treaty Forum event, Baker McKenzie, London, 6 March 2020.
• Conference co-organiser Foreign Investment Policy in Asia: Liberalization, Facilitation and Screening, Dhurakij Pundit University, Bangkok, 10 March 2020.
• Meeting co-organiser The Future of United Kingdom Investment Policy after Brexit, Investment Treaty Forum, Steptoe & Johnson, 25 February 2020.

2019

• Event convener The United Nations Convention against Corruption and International Investment Law, UNCAC Conference of States Parties, Abu Dhabi, December 2019. View slides ↗
• Presentation The Interaction between Investment Disputes and Human Rights Due Diligence, Human Rights Due Diligence Forum, London, 2019.
• Study presentation Empirical Study: Provisional Measures in Investor-State Arbitration, White & Case, London, November 2019.
• Presentation Reforming International Investment Agreements: The First Aid Package, Central Asian Arbitration Summit, Bishkek, November 2019.
• Presentation Appointment of Judges and Arbitrators in Private and Public Adjudication, BIICL and University of Liverpool, London, October 2019.
• Roundtable chair Representing Interests of States in International Courts and Tribunals, Belarusian State University, Minsk, September 2019.
• Presentation The Interaction between Domestic and International Law, Umbrella Clauses and Legitimate Expectations, Minsk, Belarus, September 2019.
• Speaker ISDS@Singapore Public Conference, Singapore, September 2019.
• Seminar Private and Public Adjudication: Institutional Design and Legitimacy, Singapore Management University, September 2019. View slides ↗
• Seminar Economic Crimes in International Investment Law, ELSA Athens Summer School, August 2019. View slides ↗
• Presentation Striking a Right Balance in the Digital Age, KCAB International and Seoul National University, Seoul, August 2019. View slides ↗
• Presentation International Investment Agreements and Climate Change, Korea Legislation Research Institute, Seoul, August 2019. View slides ↗
• Briefing Public International Law Aspects of the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement and Northern Ireland Protocol, House of Commons, London, March 2019.

2018

• Presentation Dispute Settlement Possibilities, Investment Protection in a Post-Brexit Era, King's College London, December 2018.
• Seminar chair Legitimate Expectations in International Investment Law, Energy Charter Secretariat, Brussels, November 2018.
• Speaker Hybrid Dispute Resolution Fora and the Rule of Law, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, November 2018. View slides ↗
• Speaker UNCITRAL Working Group III on ISDS Reform, Vienna, October 2018.
• Presentation Foreign Investors’ Obligations in International Investment Law, International Law Weekend, New York, October 2018.
• Presentation Investment Promotion and Protection in the Canada-UK Trade Relationship, Ottawa, Canada, June 2018. View slides ↗
• Presentation Ethics and the Rule of Law in Investment Arbitration, BIICL and Nagoya University, Tokyo, June 2018.
• Presentation General Principles of Law in Investment Arbitration, Investment Treaty Forum, London, March 2018.
• Presentation BITs, the Belt and Road and Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Renmin University, Beijing, March 2018.

2017

• Presentation The Impact of Brexit on International Dispute Resolution in London, Kiev Arbitration Days, Ukraine, November 2017. View slides ↗
• Presentation State Succession to Investment Treaties, Twenty-Ninth ITF Public Conference, London, October 2017. View slides ↗
• Reporter Consolidating the International Investment Treaties Network, UNCTAD Annual IIA Conference, Geneva, October 2017.
• Presentation Annexation of Crimea and International Investment Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, October 2017. View slides ↗
• Presentation Online Legal Education, Futures of Legal Education Conference, Open University, September 2017. View slides ↗
• Presentation Economic Crimes in International Investment Law, Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, September 2017. View slides ↗
• Government training International Economic Law and Investor-State Arbitration, UK Ministry of Justice, June–July 2017.
• Seminar Putting Legal Education into a Practical Context: The Potential of Online Learning, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, June 2017. View slides ↗
• Conference organiser and speaker Economic Crime and International Investment Law, BIICL, London, May 2017.
• Seminar A Study of Laws and Practices of Arbitration in the CIS Region, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, May 2017.
• Chair and interviewer History of International Investment Law: Conversation with Antonio Parra and Christoph Schreuer, Investment Treaty Forum, Hogan Lovells, London, 28 March 2017.

2016

• Panel chair Jurisdiction and Admissibility in International Courts and Tribunals, IBA-ELSA Conference, London, November 2016.
• Speaker Good Governance and Misuse of Public Funds, Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, September 2016.
• Presentation Non-Formal Education, Belarusian State University, Minsk, June 2016.
• Lecture series International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration, Nagoya University, Japan, June 2016.
• Presentation Succeeding as an International Arbitration Hub, Nagoya University, Japan, June 2016.
• Seminar How to Compete as an International Arbitration Hub, Bialystok University, Poland, June 2016. View slides ↗

2015

• Presentation The Concept of Fairness in International Administrative Law, International Administrative Law Centre of Excellence, London, October 2015. View slides ↗
• Keynote What It Takes for a Country to Become a Successful International Arbitration Hub, Colombo Law Society, Sri Lanka, 22 September 2015.
• Speaker Corruption and Related Misconduct in International Dispute Resolution, Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, September 2015.
• Lecture series Advanced Issues of International Dispute Resolution, Nagoya University, Japan, June 2015.
• Panel participant From Sanctions to Summits: Belarus after the Ukraine Crisis, European Council on Foreign Relations, London, June 2015.
• Presentation EU Targeted Sanctions as a Challenge for Justice, ILA British Branch Conference, University of Essex, May 2015.
• Seminar Illegality and Consent Awards in International Arbitration, Singapore Management University, May 2015.
• Presentation Economic Sanctions and Arbitrability, Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration, May 2015.
• Presentation Hierarchy in International Administrative Law, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, March 2015. View slides ↗
• Presentation The Law Applied by International Administrative Tribunals, University of Oxford, February 2015.

2014

• Presentation EU Sanctions against Belarus: Theory and Practice, European Humanities University, Trakai, July 2014.
• Presentation Are European Union Sanctions Fit for Purpose?, British International Studies Association, Dublin, June 2014.
• Presentation Varieties of State Capitalism and International Economic Order, Harvard Law School, June 2014.
• Presentation Jurisdiction over Human Rights Violations in Investor-State Arbitration, European Humanities University, Vilnius, May 2014.
• Presentation Counterclaims in Investor-State Arbitration, Nagoya University, Japan, April 2014.

2013

• Presentation International Administrative Law: Between Fragmentation and Constitutionalisation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, November 2013.
• Research presentation Optimizing the Effect of the European Humanities University on Belarus, Congress of Belarusian Studies, Kaunas, October 2013.
• Presentation International Administrative Law: Real Law and Soft Law, International Law Association regional conference, Athens, August 2013.
• Course Bilateral Investment Treaties: Rights, Remedies and Related Arbitration, Osborne Clarke, London, June 2013.
• Presentation International Administrative Law: A Truly Transnational Law?, University of Modena, Italy, March 2013. View slides ↗
• Lecture Obligations of Investors under International Law, Centre for Transnational Legal Studies, London, March 2013.
• Open lecture Employability of Young Lawyers: What Do Employers Want?, Belarusian State University, Minsk, March 2013.

2012

• Talk Investment Arbitration: Challenges and Opportunities for Sri Lanka, Annual Sri Lanka Corporate Lawyers Conference, Colombo, September 2012.
• Seminar International Trade Regimes, World Trade Organization seminar, Istanbul, September 2012.
• Talk Thirty Years of Counterclaims in Investor-State Disputes, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, June 2012. View slides ↗
• Presentation Effect of Bribery on Arbitration, Association for International Arbitration, Brussels, June 2012. View slides ↗
• Organiser and lecturer Minsk Summer Arbitration School, Minsk, Belarus, June 2012.
• Talk Corruption and Russia-Related Arbitration, International Association for Arbitration, Brussels, June 2012.

Earlier talks

• Presentation The Politics of International Economic Law: The Next Four Years, American Society for International Law, Washington, DC, November 2008.
• Course International Investment Arbitration, Bilkent University, Ankara, September 2008.
• Presentation Trade and Labor Standards under European Union Law, Harvard European Law Association, April 2007.
• Lecture Enforcing Labor Rights Against Multinational Corporate Groups, Harvard Trade Union Program, February 2007.
• Presentation Myth and Reality about Life and Politics in Belarus, Harvard University Davis Center, October 2006.
• Presentation Enterprise Restructuring and Labour Law in CIS States, Belarusian State University, June 2006.
• Presentation Do International Labour Standards Matter?, Vilnius University, May 2006.
• Presentation Multinational Enterprises and Labour Rights, Saint Petersburg State University, October 2005.
• Presentation Enforcing Labor Rights against Multinationals in Europe, University of Minnesota, April 2005.

This is a selected chronological record rather than a complete list of every lecture, meeting or teaching engagement.