Investor-State Arbitration-国际法律实践课程

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首页-课程版 ꄲ Investor-State Arbitration

José Antonio Rivas is a founding partner of Xtrategy LLP and chairs its arbitration and international law practice. Established in Bogotá in 2018, Xtrategy LLP later expanded with an office opening in Washington, D.C., in 2019.
José Antonio Rivas is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia, United States, and in the Republic of Colombia, where he serves as an international lawyer handling investment and commercial disputes, acts as an arbitrator, and provides counsel on matters of public international law and investment law to sovereign clients, state-owned enterprises, and investors. He is a co-founder of World Arbitration Update (WAU) and Washington Arbitration Week (WAW).
He boasts an extensive background in international investment and commercial arbitration, having represented sovereign clients and investors under the rules of institutions such as ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, and the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA). He also served as an arbitrator in both international and domestic arbitrations, and formerly held the positions of Chief Negotiator for Investment Treaties on behalf of the Republic of Colombia and Legal Advisor to ICSID.

José Antonio Rivas

Georgetown University Law Center

Adjunct Professor of Investment treaty arbitration /Public international law/ Landmark judgments of the ICJ

Co-Founder of World Arbitration Update (WAU)

Co-Founder of Washington Arbitration Week (WAW)

The Workshop on International Investment Arbitration seeks to provide participants with theoretical and practical knowledge in international investment arbitration, aiming at responding to the challenges faced by Chinese companies in investment arbitration.

This will be achieved through a participatory process that gathers the contributions, suggestions, experiences, and knowledge of experts.

In the workshop, practitioners, academics, in-house counsel, and members of dispute resolution centers in this field will have the opportunity to identify situations in which State acts or omissions may give rise to international responsibility of the State for violations of investment treaty or contract obligations.
• Understand the legal framework of international investment arbitration.

• Strengthen the knowledge and practical abilities of practitioners and of in-house counsel regarding investment arbitration, including jurisdiction of investment tribunals and substantive obligations included in investment treaties, as interpreted in ICSID and investment arbitration case law.

• Understand the dynamics of ICSID as the main forum for investment arbitration, the ICSID Rules and other arbitration rules, such as the UNCITRAL Rules of Arbitration, used in investment arbitration.

• To train participants, especially in-house counsel, on how to best collaborate with international counsel during the arbitration and to consider practical challenges faced by Chinese companies when contemplating investment arbitration.
Aimed at practitioners in Chinese law with experience

Interest in international arbitration and in-house counsel for Chinese companies.

Moreover, the workshop will provide a practical approach through a hypothetical case, and on-hands exercises of certain key parts of the arbitration, which practitioners and in-house counsel for Chinese companies should be able to perform after the training, including the elaboration of the initial strategy, the preparation and examination of witnesses and experts, and document production, among others.