Part 3 Should There be Limits to Repeat Appointments

This is the third of four webinars that will focus on four of the most urgent and thorny elements of the Draft Code of Conduct for Adjudicators in Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), which was recently published by ICSID and UNCITRAL:

Part One: Is There an Issue with Issue Conflict?
Part Two: Is There a Problem with Wearing Multiple Hats?
Part Three: Should There Be Limits to Repeat Appointments?
Part Four: The Questions of Implementation and Enforcement of the Draft Code

In each webinar, experts from a variety of backgrounds will discuss the proposed text, the possible options included in the draft Code’s bracketed text, different policies options as well as the systemic implications that each provisions may have in the effort of ISDS reform.

PART THREE: Should There Be Limits to Repeat Appointments?

The third webinar of the series will explore the issue of multiple appointments of the same adjudicator in ISDS proceedings. Experts will present and discuss the proposal included in the Draft Code, including its variations in the bracketed text and will address questions such as how to define multiple appointments, and when and whether it should be regulated in a Draft Code.

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Duration: 90 minutes

Welcome
Joseph E. Neuhaus
ITA Chair
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
New York City

Panelists

John Crook
Arbitrator
Judge, NATO Administrative Tribunal
Washington, D.C.

Mark Feldman
Professor of Law
Peking University
School of Transactional Law
Shenzhen

Anna Joubin-Bret
Director
International trade Law Division
UNCITRAL
Vienna

Meg Kinnear
Secretary-General
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
Washington, D.C.

Victoria Shannon Sahani
Director, Faculty Inclusion Research for System Transformation (FIRST) University-wide Initiative
Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Professor of Law
Sandra Day O'Connor College Of Law at Arizona State University
Phoenix

Moderators

Chiara Giorgetti
Chair, ITA Academic Council
Professor of Law
Richmond Law School
Richmond

Tom Sikora
Senior Vice Chair, ITA
Senior Counsel
International Disputes
Exxon Mobil Corporation