Programme


2nd Kobe Seminar on International Investment Law 2016

Asian challenges to international investment law:
Viewing from internal and comparative perspectives


Kobe, 29 January 2016

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Time

 

8:30 – 9:00

  Registration

9:00 – 9:10

 Opening Remarks

 Dai Tamada (Professor, Kobe University)

9:10 – 10:40

 Session 1: Forefronts of Investor-State Dispute Settlement

     Moderator: Sungjin Kang (Troy University)

09:10 – 09:30

 Martin Andrew Jarrett (University of Mannheim)

   “Intellectual Property Investments and the Locality Condition for Jurisdiction”

09:30 – 09:50

 Tomoko Yamashita (Kyoto University)

   " Moral Injury in Investor-State Arbitration:
         A Theoretical Shift for Reparative Modalities of International Responsibility

09:50 – 10:10

 Jernej Letnar Cernic (Graduate School of Government and European Studies, Slovenia)

   "Critical Analysis of the Proposal for the Creation of
          an International Arbitration Tribunal on Business and Human Rights"

10:10-10:30

 Hong Xu (Kobe University)

   "China's Next Investment Treaty-making Practice:
          Learning from Ping An Insurance Company Case"

10:30 – 11:00

 Discussion

11:00 – 11:20

 Coffee Break 

11:20-12:50

 Session 2: Critical Discourses on Asian Investment Law Development

    Moderator: Kei Nakajima (Kobe University & Graduate Institute Geneva)

11:20-11:40

 Miho Sakai (Kobe University)

   "Japanese Domestic Criticisms over ISDS Clause of TPP"

11:40-12:00

 Dilini Pathirana (University of Colombo)

   "China-Japan-Korea Trilateral Investment Treaty and
          the Notion of Balanced Investment Treaties: A Critique"

12:00-12:20

 Matthew Levine (University of Toronto)

   "Canadian IIA Practice in the Pacific-Rim ‘Noodle Bowl’:
           Canada-China FIPA, Canada-Korea FTA, & the Trans-Pacific Partnership"

12:20-12:50

 Discussion

12:50-14:10

 Lunch

14:10-16:00

 Session 3: Towards the Implementation of Investment Law Network in Asia

     Moderator: James Claxton (Kobe University)

14:10-14:30

 Sungjin Kang (Troy University)

   "Conflict of Rules to Protect Investment under Regional Trade Agreements
                between Korea and China – Navigating the “Noodle Bowl” "

14:30-14:50

 Kei Nakajima (Kobe University & Graduate Institute Geneva)

  "An Elusive Safeguard with Loopholes:
      Sovereign Debt and its ‘Negotiated Restructuring’ in the TPP Agreement and Beyond"

14:50-15:10

 Le Thi Anh Nguyet (Ho Chi Minh City University of Law)

  "ISDS in TPP: Where is the Benefit for Vietnam as a Developing Country?"

15:10-15:30

 Dai Tamada (Kobe University)

   "Investment Chapter of TPP from a Japanese Viewpoint"

15:30-16:00

 Discussion

16:00-16:20

 Coffee Break

16:20-17:50

 Session 4 Transparency in and out of Asia: Zoom in

     Moderator: Dai Tamada (Kobe University)

16:20-16:40

 Fernando Dias Simões (University of Macau)

   "Transparency in ICSID Arbitration: Lessons from the Last Decade"

16:40-17:00

 Joongi Kim (Yonsei Law School)

   "The State of ISDS Transparency in Asia"

17:00-17:20

 James Claxton (Kobe University)

   "Transparency in ISDS"

17:20-17:50

 Discussion

17:50-18:00

 Concluding Remarks: James Claxton (Kobe University)

18:15-20:30

 Dinner at Restaurant ‘Sakura’

 

Should you have any question, please contact: kei.nakajima@port.kobe-u.ac.jp

 

 

 

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