In association with the International Commission of Jurists

Symposia

23 Mar

[Iva Vukušić is an Assistant Professor in International History at Utrecht University and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King's College London] The likelihood of arrest of high-level leaders indicted by international courts is always a topic of discussion among those interested in accountability and justice for international crimes. However, since the 2023 International Criminal Court (ICC)...

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23 Mar

[Diane A. Desierto is full Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame’s Law School, the Faculty Director of the LLM Program in International Human Rights Law, and Founding Director of the Notre Dame Law School Global Human Rights Clinic.] Heads of State can attempt to assert their traditional immunities and privileges before international criminal court proceedings, but they will find that...

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23 Mar

[Mariana Apaza is a law student and Teaching Assistant at the University of San Martín de Porres. She is the former co-lead of the Association of Young International Criminal Lawyers’ Programmes Committee. Matilde Gamba is the current co-lead of the Association of Young International Criminal Lawyers’ Programmes Committee. As a former trainee at the European Parliament, she worked on EU policymaking...

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17 Mar

[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)] Climate change has long been framed as a problem of the future – a looming catastrophe that international law was expected to prevent before it arrived. That framing is now increasingly untenable. Climate collapse is no...

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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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