The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform

This project started in 2016 at the IALS Centre for Corporate and Financial Law. Researchers: Professor Mads Andenas, Director of Centre for CFL, IALS, and University of Oslo, Dr Maren Heidemann, Associate Research Fellow, IALS (SAS),University of London Dr Joseph Lee, University of Exeter Ms Catherine Jeanne Pedamon, Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster; Further initial participants: Dr Janwillem Oosterhuis, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Maastricht Mr David Christie, Senior Lecturer, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen Mr Daniele D’Alvia, PhD candidate, Birkbeck, University of London Mr Hendrik Puschmann, Partner, Farrer Co., London Dr Chien Chung Lin, Associate Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Dr Antonios Karaiskos, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University Dr  Despina Anagnostopoulou, Associate Professor, Jean Monnet Chair, University of Macedonia, Greece Dr Alexandra Andhov, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen Mr Jack Kenny, LLM, Research Assistant, University of Bonn

Contractual ICSID Arbitration Working Group

The Working Group explores the use of ICSID arbitration clauses in contracts between private investors and state parties. The enquiry draws on work previously undertaken at IALS and aims to combine academic, empirical and practical analysis in order to work towards a framework for the use of the ICSID system in contractual dispute resolution. The project aims to involve stakeholders from all stages of the investment and dispute settlement process. Core members of the Working Group are:  Professor Mads Andenæs QC (IALS and University of Oslo) Dr Maren Heidemann (IALS) Professor Andreas Geroldinger (Johannes Kepler University Linz) Hendrik Puschmann (Farrer & Co) Professor Eirik Bjorge (University of Bristol) Members of the Working Group contributed to the Conference on Opinion 1/17: European and international perspectives of the EU in international investment disputes on 12 and 13 June 2019 organised by the Centre Universitaire de Norvège à Paris, CUNP Fondation maison des sciences de l’homme 54, Bd Raspail, 75006, Paris. Seminar (by invitation only) Title: "The use of ICSID arbitration clauses in contracts involving state parties " Forthcoming, London Publication: Hendrik Puschmann and Andreas Geroldinger, “ICSID Arbitration Clauses in Contracts: Time for a Revival?”, in Maren Heidemann and Joseph Lee (eds), The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform, Springer (2018) pp. 389-405

Harmonisation and the Law

An interdisciplinary approach to legislative drafting Past events include "Explorathon" (European Researchers Night) at the Glasgow Science Centre 2015 and the seminar: "Harmonisation and the Law – interdisciplinary and comparative enquiries. An interdisciplinary approach to legislative drafting?"  Wednesday 5th June 2019 Researchers: Dr Maren Heidemann, IALS, University of London; Dr Simon Desbruslais, University of Hull; Dr Martin Parker Dixon, University of Glasgow 

Amicus Curiae issue 112, Feb 2019

This is the last issue of series 1 (print).

Table of Contents

The contributions to special issue by the LCF in honour of the retiring editor Julian Harris.