Sponsored by the Global Center for Business & Development

The symposium will prognosticate the future of ISDS in light of the global debates swirling around TPP and T-TIP. It will explore the acute tensions underlying the legitimacy crisis confronting investment arbitration and consider how treaties or their interpretation may be recalibrated to strike that elusive balance between the sovereign right to regulate and investment protection.

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Schedule
2016
Friday, February 19th
9:00 AM

Welcome

Francis J. Mootz, University of the Pacific

McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, CA

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

9:15 AM

Introduction and Remarks: The TPP and Forum non Concurrence in ISDS

Jarrod Wong, University of the Pacific

McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, CA

9:15 AM - 9:45 AM

9:45 AM

Panel 1: Panacean Principles in International Investment Law

Roger P. Alford, Notre Dame Law School
Steven R. Ratner, Michigan Law School

McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, CA

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM

11:15 AM

Panel 2: The Conjoined Twins of Incentive and Accountability

Jeffrey L. Bleich, Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Jason Yackee, University of Wisconsin Law School

McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, CA

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

12:15 PM

Panel 3: Public Purpose and the Three-Dimensional Role of the State in ISDS

Patrick W. Pearsall, U.S. Department of State

McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, CA

12:15 PM - 2:15 PM

2:15 PM

Panel 4: What and Who Really Decide Who Decides and How It's Decided?

Sergio Puig, The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, CA

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

3:30 PM

Panel 5: A Brave New World Beyond Investors-State Arbitration:

William S. Dodge, Seattle University School of Law
Won Kidane, Seattle University School of Law
Fabio Morosini, University of Rio Grande do Sul

McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, CA

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM