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