CLE Workshop on Investment Arbitration and Human Rights

Description: 

The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment is offering a one-day workshop with CLE credit on investment arbitration and human rights. Human rights law can affect states' obligations regarding treatment of foreign investors and investments, and investment arbitrations can have important implications for human rights. Nevertheless, there remains significant uncertainty regarding whether and how to integrate human rights considerations into arbitral proceedings. This workshop will: * examine which human rights issues may be implicated in investment disputes, as well as how and to what extent the issues have been handled by parties and arbitrators; * provide an overview of human rights norms and frameworks that are relevant to investors and governments; * explore how parties might effectively raise human rights norms and issues in the course of an arbitration; and * evaluate the roles and obligations of tribunals in considering such arguments. Philippe Sands (Barrister in the Matrix Chambers, Professor of International Law at University College London; and frequent arbitrator in investor-State disputes) will deliver the Keynote. The workshop is geared primarily toward counsel and arbitrators participating in investment arbitrations, as well as human rights practitioners with interest in investment disputes and their impacts. Participants will receive 7 CLE credits. Registration will be required ($500 for private sector participants; $200 for participants practicing in public interest, academia or government and unemployed attorneys).

This workshop is co-sponsored by ASIL's Dispute Resolution Interest Group. 

Date and Location

Date: 
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 8:30am to 11:00am
Location: 
Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 102a
Address 1: 
435 W. 116th Street
City: 
New York
State: 
NY
Zip Code: 
10027