Reserve the date: On Friday 18 September 2015 the Study Group on Preferential Trade and Investment Agreements (PTIAs) of the International Law Association (ILA) will hold its second workshop with presentations by its members at the University of Lausanne. It is a one-day event though an opening reception is held on Thursday evening 17 September 17:30 with a guest lecture by UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General Joakim Reiter.
Organization
The event is open to the public and pre-registration is open now (E: llm@unil.ch). The event is co-organized by the LLM Programme in International and European Economic and Commercial Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Lausanne together with the Swiss Branch of the ILA and the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS). The event is free for students and ILA Members (of any branch). All others pay 150 CHF or can alternatively join any ILA branch. In order to join the Swiss branch of the ILA now (including free membership for the rest of 2015, 100 CHF per year from 2016) contact E: llm@unil.ch.
Detailed Programme
Friday, 18 February 2015
Auditorium 231 « Internef Building »
UNIL Campus Dorigny
09:15 « Café & croissants »
09:45 Welcome & Introduction to the Workshop Prof. Dr. Andreas R. Ziegler, University of Lausanne
10:00 :« Preferential Trade and Investment Agreements: Some Systemic Challenges »
Prof. Dr. Jan Wouters, Catholic University of Leuven
10:15 Presentation of the Study Report (ILA Study Group) :
Prof. Dr. Peter-Tobias Stoll, Georg August University of Göttingen
10:30 Group discussion on the ILA Study Report:
Prof. Dr. Marc Bungenberg, University of Siegen
Dr. Gary Horlick, WTI, Bern
Prof. Dr. Andrew Mitchell, University of Melbourne
Prof. Dr. Jan Wouters, Catholic University of Leuven
Dr. Tarcisio Gazzini, University of Lausanne
12:00 Concluding Remarks & Outlook
Prof. Dr. Peter-Tobias Stoll
Prof. Dr. Andreas R. Ziegler
12:30 Lunch-Break
External participants are invited to the University Restaurant at Dorigny
14:15 Continuation of the group discussion (if necessary) & thoughts on steps to be taken with regard to the ILA Meeting 2016 in Johannesburg
Room 306.1 (3rd floor « Internef Building »)
16:00 End of meeting