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 |
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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: |
09:50 – 10:10 |
Jernej Letnar Cernic (Graduate School of Government and European Studies, Slovenia) "Critical Analysis of the Proposal for the Creation of |
10:10-10:30 |
Hong Xu (Kobe University) "China's Next Investment Treaty-making Practice: |
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 |
12:00-12:20 |
Matthew Levine (University of Toronto) "Canadian IIA Practice in the Pacific-Rim ‘Noodle Bowl’: |
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 |
14:30-14:50 |
Kei Nakajima (Kobe University & Graduate Institute Geneva) "An Elusive Safeguard with Loopholes: |
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