Here's some info on a conference on international investment law to be held at Boston College Law School on October 25:
The law school is hosting an international conference on the ferment surrounding international investment law and how this crisis can be an opportunity to reform the system towards better global governance.
The legitimacy crisis in international investment law today offers an opportunity to fundamentally re-conceptualize this legal regime away from its history as a functionalist system of investor protection, towards becoming a key element in global economic governance alongside international trade law. This conference explores both the nature of the crisis, and how the core policies and basic structures of investment law must be rethought and reformed so that investment law can more effectively discharge its key role in 21st century global governance. The panelists represent a diverse range of regions, institutions and perspectives, but share a common interest in the balanced and coherent evolution of investment law norms and institutions, and a concern with the social and normative critiques of investment law circulating today. We hope you can join us.
This is a product of the collaboration between BC Law and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile through the Luksic family's generous grant to BC, and Sebastian (our PUC visitor this month) and I have assembled a team of reform-minded scholars from around the world to discuss various ways investment law can be reformed to better support human flourishing while safeguarding private development capital.
The conference runs 9-5pm and we hope you can join for breakfast before, coffee, lunch or afternoon coffee and some amazing sessions.
More: Draft Principles for Investment Law Reform
For more information contact: Frank J. Garcia at [email protected]
Professor and Dean's Global Fund Scholar
