Thurs, 4/21: The Politics of Investment Treaties

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The Politics of Investment Treaties

Categories: Events, Upcoming Events

Tags: Coordinating Multi-Stakeholder and Expert Dialogue,Investment Law and Policy

Date: April 21, 2016, 6:30–7:30 pm; Reception to follow
Location: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, 601 Lexington Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, NY 10022

Registration is free but required. Please register here.

The event will discuss the politics of investment treaties. The starting point will be a recent book by Dr. Lauge Poulsen, which focuses on the historic practices of developing countries concluding investment treaties, and finds that governments in many developing countries overestimated the economic benefits of those agreements and practically ignored their risks.*

Panelists:

Brian King, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Lauge Skovgaard Poulsen, Lecturer in International Political Economy, University College London
Jennifer Haworth McCandless, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP

Co-organized by:

* Cambridge University Press offers a discount on the book (code: BRED16) through it’s website.

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