Investment Arbitration in the TTIP -- Panel discussion in the House of EU in Vienna

Описание: Should the TTIP, the EU-US agreement on trade and investment, provide for investment arbitration?

Are arbitral tribunals undermining democracy and elected parliaments?

Are business lawyers qualified to weight up between public interests and the investors' rights?

Are they independent and impartial?

Is investment arbitration lacking transparency?

Would European investors be exposed to discrimination before US state courts?


-- Prof. MMag. Dr. August Reinisch, LL.M (Institute of International and European Law, University of Vienna)

-- Dr. Günther Horvath (Partner at Freshfileds in Vienna)

-- Mag. Valentin Wedl (Austrian Chamber of Labour, Department for European and international Affairs)

Mag. Alexandra Strickner (Head of attac Austria)

-- MMag. Dr. Winfried Pöcherstorfer, LL.M. (advisor on Bilateral Investment Protection
Policy at the Austrian Chamber of Commerce)

-- Dr. Manfred Schekulin (Austrian Ministry of Economy, Head of Department for Export and
Investments)

Florian Schweitzer (Greenpeace Campaigner)

-- Moderation by Mag. Anne-Karin Grill M.A. (Gassauer-Fleissner Rechtsanwälte GmbH)


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