In association with the International Commission of Jurists

Symposia

19 Feb

[Güneş Ünüvar is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Exeter Law School (as of June 2026), and an Associate Fellow at the Academy of International Affairs Nordrhein-Westfalen in Bonn, Germany. He also serves as the Managing Editor of the Journal of World Investment & Trade (Brill) and as Legal Advisor to the Moon Village Association] Introduction: The Report In...

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19 Feb

[Saïda El Boudouhi is a professor at Université Paris 8. She has held academic positions across leading French and European institutions and contributes actively to contemporary debates on the evolution of public international law] Drawing from the Empirical Study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance (‘the Study’), the present post focuses on the reliance by investment...

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18 Feb

[Frederic G. Sourgens is the James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law at Tulane Law School and Director of the Tulane Center for Energy Law, and a practicing arbitration lawyer. He has acted as counsel and expert in complex cross‑border disputes] The recent study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance by Arif H. Ali, David L. Attanasio, Yarik...

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18 Feb

[Francis Xavier, SC, PBM, FCIArb, C.Arb, is Rajah & Tann’s Regional Head of Disputes Group and is recognised as a leading disputes lawyer.  He is a past global President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2020) and also a Past President of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (2019). Matthew Koh is a partner at Rajah & Tann, based in Singapore. Matthew practices...

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17 Feb

[Kiran Nasir Gore is an international disputes lawyer and academic whose +15 years of practice span commercial and investor‑State arbitration, public international law, and complex cross‑border litigation. She serves as counsel, arbitrator, and advisor to States, corporations, and international organizations] Amid geopolitical tensions, price fluctuations, and economic instability, States frequently employ monetary policies to regulate banking and financial matters and to...

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17 Feb

[Kai-Chieh Chan is co-author of the Empirical Study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance. He holds master degrees from Sciences Po Paris (cum laude) and Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, and he is admitted in England and Wales] Introduction Nowadays, it is widely acknowledged that investors are well protected by investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) under the thousands of investment treaties in...

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16 Feb

[David Attanasio is a Partner at Womble Bond Dickinson LLP based in Washington, DC, and a co-author of the Empirical Study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance. He has over a decade of experience in commercial and investment arbitration disputes, with particular expertise in Latin America–related matters] A recent study published by the British Institute of International...

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16 Feb

[Arif Hyder Ali, FCIArb, is co-author of the Empirical Study on International Investment Law Protections in Global Banking and Finance. His career spans senior roles at major international firms, the United Nations Compensation Commission, and WIPO before founding the boutique dispute resolution firm, AHALI, in 2025. Christine Carpenter is an international lawyer, and currently a Gates Scholar and PhD Candidate...

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06 Feb

[Dr Sergey Sayapin is Professor of Law at KIMEP University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Distinguished Visiting Global Scholar at the NUS Centre for International Law (2025)] International law was largely designed for a world in which harm could be identified, responsibility attributed, and violations remedied. Its core concepts – breach, obligation, responsibility, reparation – presuppose a legal universe structured around discrete acts, identifiable actors, and...

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12 Jan

[Alexa Koenig, PhD, MA, JD, is a research professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center, and director and co-founder of the center’s Investigations Lab. Brianne McGonigle Leyh, PhD, MA, JD, is professor of global justice studies at Utrecht University’s School of Law, director of masters education at the School of Law, and project...

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12 Dec

[Dr Sabina Garahan is a lecturer in criminal law and human rights at the University of Essex Law School and Director of the Essex Human Rights Centre Clinic. Dr Sarah Zarmsky is a lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law with a research focus on international criminal law, human rights, and new and emerging technologies.] Introduction Detention is often associated with the perpetration...

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12 Dec

[Madeeha Majid is a legal consultant with OpenNyAI – Agami and an international lawyer based in Srinagar, Kashmir] On 19 July 2024, Judge Dire Tladi, in his powerful declaration to the Advisory Opinion on Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, emphasized that Israel’s policies and practices reveal ‘a clear intent to dominate the Palestinian...

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