SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
IN WORLD INVESTMENT LAW
An International Legal Experts Seminar & Book Launch Reception
10:00am - 7:00pm / 7 May 2011
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL), University of Cambridge, UK
Saturday, April 30, 2011
May 7th,2011,SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
IN WORLD INVESTMENT LAW
An International Legal Experts Seminar & Book Launch Reception
10:00am - 7:00pm / 7 May 2011
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL), University of Cambridge, UK
international investment agreements and a growing number of arbitrations. The European
Union is committed to sustainable development, and has just recently gained
jurisdiction over investment law, which may lead to new investment treaty negotiations
with partner countries. Several new legal research initiatives are also being
launched. What are the next steps for sustainable development in investment treaties,
in arbitrations, and in other international regimes? What is new in this field, at
key areas of overlap? What legal research is overdone, and what more is needed?
What are the challenges and opportunities?
Through three legal experts panels, and a roundtable of leading figures in investment
law, practitioners and scholars will discuss new developments and directions
for investment treaty practice and jurisprudence, and identify key areas for a future
legal research agenda for sustainable development and investment law. The event
will close with a Book Launch Reception for MC Cordonier Segger, M Gehring & A
Newcombe (eds.), Sustainable Development in World Investment Law (Kluwer Law
International, 2010), to which Seminar speakers and participants contributed.
For more information or to confirm participation, email akent@cisdl.org
IN WORLD INVESTMENT LAW
An International Legal Experts Seminar & Book Launch Reception
10:00am - 7:00pm / 7 May 2011
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL), University of Cambridge, UK
international investment agreements and a growing number of arbitrations. The European
Union is committed to sustainable development, and has just recently gained
jurisdiction over investment law, which may lead to new investment treaty negotiations
with partner countries. Several new legal research initiatives are also being
launched. What are the next steps for sustainable development in investment treaties,
in arbitrations, and in other international regimes? What is new in this field, at
key areas of overlap? What legal research is overdone, and what more is needed?
What are the challenges and opportunities?
Through three legal experts panels, and a roundtable of leading figures in investment
law, practitioners and scholars will discuss new developments and directions
for investment treaty practice and jurisprudence, and identify key areas for a future
legal research agenda for sustainable development and investment law. The event
will close with a Book Launch Reception for MC Cordonier Segger, M Gehring & A
Newcombe (eds.), Sustainable Development in World Investment Law (Kluwer Law
International, 2010), to which Seminar speakers and participants contributed.
For more information or to confirm participation, email akent@cisdl.org
Monday, April 11, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
International Trade Law /Notth Dakota/Aerospace
International Trade Law News
Welcome Attendees of North Dakota Trade Office's Global Business Connections Conference
Welcome to those attending the North Dakota Trade Office's Global Business Connections 2011 conference in Fargo, North Dakota on March 30 and 31 in Fargo, North Dakota.
Global Business Connections is a two-day event that connects North Dakota businesses with international trade professionals from around the world. The conference includes panel discussions with leading exporters and international business professionals, break-out seminars on export controls and Incoterms 2010, networking events and an industry trade show. The conference also will include the presentation of North Dakota’s most prestigious international business awards by North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple to the following award winners:
2010 North Dakota Exporter of the Year - Healthy Oilseeds, a leading grower, processor and exporter of flax.
2010 Service to North Dakota Exporters Award - Bremer Bank
The keynote speakers at the conference include Gregory Page, Chairman and CEO of Cargill, and Michael Hick, Director of Global Business Initiatives and author of Global Deals: Marketing and Managing Across Cultural Frontiers.
Other speakers at the program included Ed Schafer, who served as U.S. Secretary
of Agriculture and Governor of North Dakota.
North Dakota currently has the nation's lowest unemployment rate and is a leading exporting state. In addition to exporting agriculture products, North Dakota is a leading producer and exporter of machinery and has a thriving aerospace sector
Welcome Attendees of North Dakota Trade Office's Global Business Connections Conference
Welcome to those attending the North Dakota Trade Office's Global Business Connections 2011 conference in Fargo, North Dakota on March 30 and 31 in Fargo, North Dakota.
Global Business Connections is a two-day event that connects North Dakota businesses with international trade professionals from around the world. The conference includes panel discussions with leading exporters and international business professionals, break-out seminars on export controls and Incoterms 2010, networking events and an industry trade show. The conference also will include the presentation of North Dakota’s most prestigious international business awards by North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple to the following award winners:
2010 North Dakota Exporter of the Year - Healthy Oilseeds, a leading grower, processor and exporter of flax.
2010 Service to North Dakota Exporters Award - Bremer Bank
The keynote speakers at the conference include Gregory Page, Chairman and CEO of Cargill, and Michael Hick, Director of Global Business Initiatives and author of Global Deals: Marketing and Managing Across Cultural Frontiers.
Other speakers at the program included Ed Schafer, who served as U.S. Secretary
of Agriculture and Governor of North Dakota.
North Dakota currently has the nation's lowest unemployment rate and is a leading exporting state. In addition to exporting agriculture products, North Dakota is a leading producer and exporter of machinery and has a thriving aerospace sector
Monday, April 4, 2011
Canada threatening WTO challenge over EU's proposed restrictions/rankings on product from Cdn oil sands
http://ht.ly/4sQSz BRUSSELS — The Canadian government has stepped up lobbying in Europe for its oil sands industry, repeating its threats of trade conflict, a leaked letter shows. The letter dated March 18 to Europe’s commissioners for climate, trade and energy follows Canada’s denial it threatened to scrap a free trade deal unless the European Union alters planned environmental laws. "Given the desire for freer trade between us, it is important that our individual efforts to address climate change do not lead to the creation of unnecessary barriers," Canadian trade official Mark Richardson said in a document sent with the letter. "The Government of Canada believes this approach raises the prospect of unjustified discrimination and is not supported by the science." The dispute centres around EU plans to make fuel suppliers reduce the carbon footprint of fuels by 6% over the next decade. The EU is now fine-tuning a ranking of fuels to help suppliers identify the most carbon-intensive imports.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Time to end Aggri. supply management
Time to end supply managementManley thinks it's now time, in fact well past time, to begin to phase out supply management, the marketing board system that keeps our production of dairy and poultry products artificially low so their prices can be jacked up artificially high. To make the system work, we have to put very tight restrictions on imports, which we used to effectively ban but now, because of WTO rules put in place in the 1990s, merely charge sky-high tariffs on.
Piling two and three hundred per cent tariffs onto dairy and poultry prices is obviously very bad for consumers, especially poor consumers. But it also hurts us internationally. Manley argues our insistence that marketing boards stay off the table in all trade negotiations is killing our influence on the evolution of multilateral trade rules. We used to be "in the Green Room in Geneva," he says, meaning we were among the small group of countries that put the final touches on any General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or World Trade Organization deal. But now, because of our insistence on sheltering our supply-managed sectors from foreign competition, we're "outcasts."
As an ex-politician, Manley understands it would be hard to simply slash the tariffs and let the supplied-managed sectors fend for themselves. People who got into the industry and made significant investments in good faith under the existing regulatory regime would suffer big capital losses if the rules changed overnight. The government that took on supply
Piling two and three hundred per cent tariffs onto dairy and poultry prices is obviously very bad for consumers, especially poor consumers. But it also hurts us internationally. Manley argues our insistence that marketing boards stay off the table in all trade negotiations is killing our influence on the evolution of multilateral trade rules. We used to be "in the Green Room in Geneva," he says, meaning we were among the small group of countries that put the final touches on any General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or World Trade Organization deal. But now, because of our insistence on sheltering our supply-managed sectors from foreign competition, we're "outcasts."
As an ex-politician, Manley understands it would be hard to simply slash the tariffs and let the supplied-managed sectors fend for themselves. People who got into the industry and made significant investments in good faith under the existing regulatory regime would suffer big capital losses if the rules changed overnight. The government that took on supply
GATT Article XX and Domestic Production of Environmental Goods
International Economic Law and Policy Blog: GATT Article XX and Domestic Production of Environmental Goods
China could plead environmental necessity to win a dispute over its wind industry subsidies, a case now moving through the World Trade Organization, one legal expert suggests.
Provisions under Chinese law mandating that nearly all wind power equipment be purchased from China for projects to be eligible for state financial support are facing a WTO challenge by the United States.
The domestic content requirement that helped China build a wind industry at the expense of foreign firms does, on the face of it, seem to violate WTO rules against such protectionist measures, experts say. But the WTO panel and appellate body have explicitly shown in the past that they will allow exceptions for environmental protection.
And if Beijing could convince the trade body that the domestic content requirement is necessary to help curb global climate change, the WTO board may toss out the U.S. complaint, said Robert Howse, an international law professor at New York University and an expert on international trade law.
"I think in China's case in particular, there might be a plausible argument, which is that China's demand for clean energy is so enormous that it would be irresponsible for China not to take measures to ensure it has an adequate domestic industry in this area," Howse said.
The law professor admitted that his judgment is speculative at best -- China hasn't yet publicly stated what its defense of the foreign product block is. But given the rules in the various international treaties the WTO governs that allow for exceptional state support for efforts on environmental problems, China's trade negotiators may be looking for loopholes among those provisions, he said.
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China could plead environmental necessity to win a dispute over its wind industry subsidies, a case now moving through the World Trade Organization, one legal expert suggests.
Provisions under Chinese law mandating that nearly all wind power equipment be purchased from China for projects to be eligible for state financial support are facing a WTO challenge by the United States.
The domestic content requirement that helped China build a wind industry at the expense of foreign firms does, on the face of it, seem to violate WTO rules against such protectionist measures, experts say. But the WTO panel and appellate body have explicitly shown in the past that they will allow exceptions for environmental protection.
And if Beijing could convince the trade body that the domestic content requirement is necessary to help curb global climate change, the WTO board may toss out the U.S. complaint, said Robert Howse, an international law professor at New York University and an expert on international trade law.
"I think in China's case in particular, there might be a plausible argument, which is that China's demand for clean energy is so enormous that it would be irresponsible for China not to take measures to ensure it has an adequate domestic industry in this area," Howse said.
The law professor admitted that his judgment is speculative at best -- China hasn't yet publicly stated what its defense of the foreign product block is. But given the rules in the various international treaties the WTO governs that allow for exceptional state support for efforts on environmental problems, China's trade negotiators may be looking for loopholes among those provisions, he said.
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Saturday, April 2, 2011
CBA - A Primer on Municipalities and Constitutional Law
CBA - A Primer on Municipalities and Constitutional Law
Municipal decisions have always been subject to challenge on a wide range of constitutional grounds. The Supreme Court of Canada has issued a number of recent judgments respecting constitutional law issues involving or impacting municipalities. When can municipalities govern in relation to federal and provincial lands and undertakings over airports, harbours, railways and telecommunications? What is the test respecting paramountcy and exclusive jurisdiction? What is the doctrine of interjurisdictional immunity and when does it apply? Where does the principal of subsidiarity fall within this scheme? If you do not know the answers to these questions, you need to come out and hear legal experts analyze these topics and participate in this interactive and engaging program.
Municipal decisions have always been subject to challenge on a wide range of constitutional grounds. The Supreme Court of Canada has issued a number of recent judgments respecting constitutional law issues involving or impacting municipalities. When can municipalities govern in relation to federal and provincial lands and undertakings over airports, harbours, railways and telecommunications? What is the test respecting paramountcy and exclusive jurisdiction? What is the doctrine of interjurisdictional immunity and when does it apply? Where does the principal of subsidiarity fall within this scheme? If you do not know the answers to these questions, you need to come out and hear legal experts analyze these topics and participate in this interactive and engaging program.
Agenda:
5:30 pm - Registration & Cash Bar
6:00 pm - Dinner
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Program followed by Question and Answer period
Speakers:
Josh Hunter, Crown Counsel, Constitutional Law Branch, Ministry of the Attorney General
Lisa Pasternak, Senior Solicitor,City of Hamilton
Program Chairs
Travelling more than 100 km to attend the live OBA CLE program? Take 25% off the registration fee. Exempted are joint LSUC-OBA programs & Institute.
Municipal decisions have always been subject to challenge on a wide range of constitutional grounds. The Supreme Court of Canada has issued a number of recent judgments respecting constitutional law issues involving or impacting municipalities. When can municipalities govern in relation to federal and provincial lands and undertakings over airports, harbours, railways and telecommunications? What is the test respecting paramountcy and exclusive jurisdiction? What is the doctrine of interjurisdictional immunity and when does it apply? Where does the principal of subsidiarity fall within this scheme? If you do not know the answers to these questions, you need to come out and hear legal experts analyze these topics and participate in this interactive and engaging program.
Municipal decisions have always been subject to challenge on a wide range of constitutional grounds. The Supreme Court of Canada has issued a number of recent judgments respecting constitutional law issues involving or impacting municipalities. When can municipalities govern in relation to federal and provincial lands and undertakings over airports, harbours, railways and telecommunications? What is the test respecting paramountcy and exclusive jurisdiction? What is the doctrine of interjurisdictional immunity and when does it apply? Where does the principal of subsidiarity fall within this scheme? If you do not know the answers to these questions, you need to come out and hear legal experts analyze these topics and participate in this interactive and engaging program.
Agenda:
5:30 pm - Registration & Cash Bar
6:00 pm - Dinner
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Program followed by Question and Answer period
Speakers:
Josh Hunter, Crown Counsel, Constitutional Law Branch, Ministry of the Attorney General
Lisa Pasternak, Senior Solicitor,City of Hamilton
Program Chairs
Travelling more than 100 km to attend the live OBA CLE program? Take 25% off the registration fee. Exempted are joint LSUC-OBA programs & Institute.
CBA - Elder Law Section Meeting/Wpg.
CBA - Elder Law Section MeetingWinnipeg,Mon.April4th12noon-1:30pm..elderly and living will
CBA - CCCA 2011 National Spring Conference
CBA - CCCA 2011 National Spring Conference
cost $995.00
CCCA 2011 National Spring Conference
Sunday, April 03, 2011 - Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Hilton Hotel
145 Richmond Street West ,Toronto, ON M5H 2L2
CCCA National Spring Conference April 3 -5, 2011 Hilton Toronto, Toronto
cost $995.00
CCCA 2011 National Spring Conference
Sunday, April 03, 2011 - Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Hilton Hotel
145 Richmond Street West ,Toronto, ON M5H 2L2
CCCA National Spring Conference April 3 -5, 2011 Hilton Toronto, Toronto
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