[PUBLICATION] May 2019 – King’s College London publishes Vaccaro-Incisa preliminary research on annulment of judicial decisions

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May 2019 – Within the framework of the EU Jean Monnet Network LAwTTIP programme, King’s College London has released the preliminary findings of Dr. Vaccaro-Incisa’s research on “Preliminary thoughts on the conceptual compatibility between i) annulment grounds in ICSID and civil law systems featuring a Cour de Cassation, and ii) the role and function of ICSID ad hoc annulment committee members and the Judges of the International Court of Justice. A comparative analysis, in the context of ISDS reform“.

The paper may be found in the collection document LAwTTIP Working Paper 2018/3.

[PUBLICATION] Apr. 2019 – Routledge releases Professor Nakagawa latest book featuring a chapter authored by Vaccaro-Incisa

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Apr. 2019 – Routledge Publishing has recently released the book Asian Perspectives on International Investment Law, edited by Professor Junji Nakagawa (Tokyo University).

Dr. Vaccaro-Incisa authored Chapter 8, delving on ‘Objective criteria and ratione legis condition in the definition of investment: global trends and the Chinese practice‘.

[ACADEMIA] Oct. 2018 – Vaccaro-Incisa speaking at King’s College London on grounds of annulment of investor-State arbitration awards

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Oct. 2018 – Within the framework of the EU Jean Monnet Network LAwTTIP programme, Dr. Vaccaro-Incisa has been invited to present at King’s College London Dickson Poon School of Law his preliminary comparative research between grounds of annulment of decisions in ICSID investor-State arbitration and those in civil law legal systems featuring a Cour de Cassation.

[ACADEMIA] Aug. 2018 – Vaccaro-Incisa speaking at ILA biennial meeting (Sydney, Australia)

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19-24 Aug. 2018 – As part of a successful joint panel proposal on Investment disputes and challenging boundary issues over land and sea, presented with co-panelists Ms. Christine Sims (NUS) and Mr. Sebastian Wuschka (Buchum / Luther), Dr. Vaccaro-Incisa has been invited to speak about Investment arbitration and questions of public international law: temporal extent, legality requirement, and infamous commas in the Russia-Ukraine BIT at the upcoming biennial meeting of the International Law Association (ILA), organized around the framework topic Developing International Law in Challenging Times and held at the InterContinental Hotel in Sidney, Australia, on 19-24 August 2018.

Chair of the panel is Professor August Reinisch (Vienna).

[ACADEMIA] Jul. 2018 – Vaccaro-Incisa invited to speak at the University of Melbourne

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Jul. 2018 – Dr. Vaccaro-Incisa has been invited by the Law School of the University of Melbourne to speak, on Fri., Aug. 17th, about Investment Treaty Arbitration Reforms: What Role for the International Court of Justice?

Discussant of the seminar will be Dr. Jarrod Hepburn, International Arbitrator Reporter Senior Editor and Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School.

[ACADEMIA] Jul. 2018 – Vaccaro-Incisa invited to speak at the University of Sidney

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Jul. 2018 – Dr. Vaccaro-Incisa has been invited by the University of Sidney’s Centre for Asia and Pacific Law (CAPLUS) to speak, on Tue., Jul. 31st, about Reforming investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS): Investment courts, other alternatives, and China’s role.

Discussant of the seminar will be Professors Vivienne Bath and Luke Nottage, co-directors of CAPLUS.

[PUBLICATION] May 9, 2018 – Post on the European Journal of International Law ‘Talk!’ page on Crimean investment arbitration proceedings

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May 9, 2018 – The ‘Talk!‘ page of the European Journal of International Law (EJIL), directed by Prof. Marko Milanovic (Nottingham University), published a post today of Prof. Vaccaro-Incisa briefly commenting certain aspects of the recent jurisdictional decisions in the investment arbitration proceedings pitting Ukrainian investors against Russia for their investments made in Crimea prior to the ‘change of effective sovereign’ the peninsula went through in February-March 2014.

The short analysis follows on April 2017 publication of Prof. Vaccaro-Incisa on the public international law issue of Crimea’s change of sovereign, and January 2018 speaking engagement at ICC YAF Frankfurt on the review of year 2017 of developments in investment law and arbitration.

 

[ACADEMIA] May 2018 – Vaccaro-Incisa invited to speak at Jean Monnet EUCROSS conference organized by KU Leuven in Hong Kong

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May 2018 – Dr. Vccaro-Incisa has been invited to speak at the conference on The EU and its Partners in Global Governance: Trade, Investment, Tax and Sustainable Development,  jointly organized, within the Jean Monnet Network ‘EUCROSS’, by the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies (University KU Leuven) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, to be held on 14-15 June 2018 in Hong Kong.

Dr. Vaccaro-Incisa will present the preliminary results of an ongoing research flowing from the publication, in February, of a Columbia Law School CCSI FDI Perspective, co-authored with Professor Julien Chaisse. The presentation will focus on The EU investment court and UNCITRAL’s attempt to reform ISDS: a rocky path, and a fresh proposal.

Apr. 18, 2018 – IBL “Masters’ lecture” with ITLOS Deputy Registrar and Reed Smith Partner (Paris, FR)

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Apr. 18, 2018 – As the academic director of the International Business & Law (IBL) double degree program, and organizer of its “Masters’ Lectures” series, Prof. Vaccaro-Incisa, has invited Dr. Ximena Hindrichs, Deputy Registrar of the United Nations’ International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), and Dr. Guillaume Areou, Partner at Reed Smith’s Paris office, to speak, on Apr. 18th, at 6pm, at IESEG Business School in Paris, about ‘international business and disputes at sea’.

[PUBLICATION] Feb. 12, 2018 – Columbia Law School publishes a FDI Perspective authored by Prof. Chaisse and Vaccaro-Incisa

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Feb. 12, 2018 – Columbia Law School Research Center on Sustainable Investment published today the Columbia FDI Perspective no. 219, jointly authored by Prof. Julien Chaisse (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Prof. Vaccaro-Incisa on The EU investment court: challenges on the path ahead.

Perspective topic: “The bilateral investment court system the EU buttressed since 2015 risks losing momentum in the face of complex internal and external challenges. This Perspective weighs these challenges against the recent UNCITRAL decision to address ISDS reform, providing for a better framework to seek for shared global solutions to long-expressed concerns.”

This prestigious short publication is known for the difficulty of outlining a policy problem and a possible solution in the limited space of 800 words, using a language possibly accessible to the wider public.

The text of the Perspective is publicly available here.