10 February 2012 | CIL Seminar Series

The In’s and Out’s of Investment Treaty Arbitration: Recent Developments in the Field

Introduction

This talk provided an overview of the investment treaty arbitration landscape in 2012. It identified some of the trends in doctrine and discussed how this area of law and practice, nascent twenty years ago, has matured into a complex and rapidly growing field.

The discussion was open to Singapore Government Officials and invited guests only.

About the Speaker

J CHRISTOPHER THOMAS, Q.C. is a lawyer and Chartered Arbitrator who has practiced for many years in the field of international trade and commercial law with emphasis on trade and investment regulation and dispute settlement. He has been counsel in many international disputes, in domestic administrative law procedures (anti-dumping and countervailing duty cases), and in contentious proceedings before the superior courts of Canada. He now acts primarily as an arbitrator in international investment, trade and commercial disputes. He is Editor of Investor-State LawGuide, an on-line research database which is being launched in February 2011. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2002 and has been designated a Chartered Arbitrator by the ADR Institute of Canada.