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About the Event:

The seminar will discuss the reform of international investment law and arbitration, focusing on the role of the investment contract. Through the analysis of some contractual clauses, the lecture will illustrate how the investment contract may be successful in strengthening the sustainability of foreign direct investment (FDI) and making international investment law and arbitration more balanced. It will be argued that contractual provisions may not only give rise to state-investor arbitration, but also ground counterclaims by states in investment treaty arbitration, allowing for new avenues for sustainable development, and more broadly public policy issues, in investor-state arbitration.

About the Speaker:

Dr Sondra Faccio is Associate Professor of International Law at the School of International Studies and the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento (Italy). She is an attorney at law, admitted to the Bar of Verona (Italy). She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, Ernst Mach Scholar at Vienna University-Faculty of Law, and visiting PhD student at Columbia Law School. Her fields of expertise are International investment law and arbitration, Conflict of laws, Arms and dual use items trade regulation. She is currently PI of the EU founded project 'Arms, Peace and Sustainability'. Her research is focusing on the relationship between the regulation of arms and dual use items trade and international investment law.

Lunch will be provided.

Please email globe@warwick.ac.uk if you have any dietary or access requirements.

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