47) Case Review of ‘Thai v Western Sydney University’ (May 2023)
· Location: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.
· Event: Referentenbesprechung
46) An Academic's Perspective on a Potential Multilateral Investment Court (July 2023)
· Location: United Nations Headquarters.
· Event: Side Event to 45th Session of UNCITRAL Working Group III (‘Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform and the Establishment of a Multilateral Investment Court’)
45) Towards Greater Investor Accountability (March 2023)
· Location: United Nations Headquarters.
· Event: Side Event to 45th Session of UNCITRAL Working Group III (‘Investor Accountability’)
44) The Zombification of the Energy Charter Treaty: A European Own Goal? (December 2022)
· Location: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.
· Event: Referentenbesprechung
43) Testing for Fault-Based Causality in ISDS 2.0 (November 2022)
· Location: University of the Witwatersrand.
· Event: Making a Multilateral Investment Court Beneficial for Sub-Saharan Africa?
42) The Rise of Domestic Courts in International Investment Law (November 2022)
· Location: Saarland University.
· Event: Presentation for students in the Masters programme ‘Europäisches und Internationales Recht (LL.M.)’
41) Public Policy–Based Challenges to Investment-Treaty Arbitral Awards (October 2022)
· Location: University of Sydney.
· Event: The Rise of Domestic Courts in International Investment Law
40) Fynerdale Holdings BV v. Czechia: A Critical Expansion of the Investment-Legality Requirement in Investment-Treaty Arbitration (July 2022).
· Location: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.
· Event: Referentenbesprechung
39) The Protection-Status of Fossil Fuel–Based Investments under International Law (July 2022).
· Location: Durham University.
· Event: Global Energy Transition and Investment Disputes
38) The International Lawfulness of Germany’s Trusteeship over Gazprom Germania (July 2022).
· Location: Warsaw School of Economics.
· Event: Russian Aggression on Ukraine from the International Economic Law Perspective
37) ISDS 2.0: Time for a Formal Doctrine of Precedent? (May 2022).
· Location: University of Tokyo.
· Event: 19th ASLI Conference
36) The Legal Validity of Imposing Treaty Obligations on Individuals (May 2022).
· Location: University of Milano-Bicocca.
· Event: The Concept of Obligation in International Law
35) Australian Enforcement of Eiser v Spain Arbitral Award: Responses from the European Commission (February 2022).
· Location: University of Sydney.
· Event: 2022 Sydney Centre for International Law Year in Review Conference
34) Djoković-Australia Saga: Legal Issues Behind the Drama (January 2022).
· Location: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.
· Event: Referentenbesprechung
33) Investment-Treaty Arbitration After Achmea (November 2021).
· Location: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.
· Event: Referentenbesprechung
32) Competition Authorities and Foreign Investors: Managing the Litigation Risk under the AfCFTA Investment Protocol (October 2021).
· Location: African Union, Addis Ababa.
31) Overcoming the Assumption of Inevitable Bias of Judges on the Multilateral Investment Court: Time for a Doctrine of Precedent? (September 2021).
· Location: University of Stockholm.
· Event: 2021 ESIL International Economic Law Workshop
30) BayWa v Spain: A Jurisprudential Turn for the Worse (July 2021).
· Location: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.
· Event: Referentenbesprechung
29) Adjudication of Host Citizen-Investor Disputes: A New Frontier for International Investment Law? (April 2021).
· Location: University of Catania.
· Event: Workshop of the ESIL IG on International Economic Law – 2021 Catania ESIL Research Forum
28) The Quiet Rise of the Investment Court System (February 2021).
· Location: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.
· Event: Referentenbesprechung
27) The Covid-19 Pandemic and Investment-Treaty Arbitration (November 2020).
· Location: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.
· Event: Referentenbesprechung
26) Love / Thoms v. Commonwealth – Non-Citizen Indigenous Australians (November 2020).
· Location: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.
· Event: Referentenbesprechung
25) The Modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty (June 2020).
· Location: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.
· Event: Referentenbesprechung
24) Adjudicative Competence of Indian Courts and Arbitral Tribunals for Investor-India Disputes: Combat to Cooperation? (February 2020).
· Location: South Asia University, India.
· Event: South Asia in the Era of International Courts and Tribunals.
23) Overcoming the Challenges of Embedding Counterclaims into the Framework of International Investment Law (January 2020).
· Location: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia.
· Event: Trade and Investment Law Timeout (TILT) Session.
22) Imposing Directive-Based Human Rights Obligations on Investors in International Investment Law (October 2019).
· Location: Catholic University of Portugal (Lisbon), Portugal.
· Event: Socially Responsible Foreign Investment under International Law.
21) The Potential for Creating Consistent Investment Treaty Case Law via the Investment Tribunal System (September 2019).
· Location: University of Minho, Portugal.
· Event: 2019 ILA Regional Conference (Braga).
20) Shaping the Multilateral Investment Court System into the Chinese Mould (September 2019).
· Location: The Silk Road Institute for International and Comparative Law, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China.
· Event: Multilateral Reform of Investor-State Dispute Resolution: A Dialogue among Different Approaches.
19) Ensuring the Fairness of Investor Obligations (September 2019).
· Location: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
· Event: 2019 ESIL International Business and Human Rights Workshop (side event to 2019 ESIL Annual Conference).
18) Host Citizen-Investor Disputes: Domestic or International Adjudication? (September 2019).
· Location: University of Oslo (PluriCourts), Norway.
· Event: The Legitimacy of International Investment Law and Arbitration in Protecting Human Rights.
17) The Validity of Investor Obligations in Investment Treaties (July 2019).
· Location: Strathmore University, Kenya.
· Event: Fourth African International Economic Law Network Biennial Conference.
16) Fighting Corruption via Civil Participation in the International Adjudication of Investor-State Disputes (June 2019).
· Location: European University Institute, Italy.
· Event: Corruption Democracy and Human Rights: Exploring New Avenues in the Fight Against Corruption.
15) Assessing Chinese Acceptance of the Investment Tribunal System (May 2019).
· Location: University of New South Wales, Australia.
· Event: 2019 CIBEL Global Network Young Scholars Workshop.
14) The Reactionary Police Powers Defence (May 2019).
· Location: McGill University, Canada.
· Event: 12th Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference.
13) A Theory of Causation for International Investment Law (May 2019).
· Location: Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary.
· Event: ESIL-ELTE Law School Joint Workshop on 'Attribution, Causality and Evidentiary Rules'.
12) State Responsibility for the MH17 Incident (February 2019 (invited speaker)).
· Location: University of Sydney (Sydney Centre for International Law), Australia.
· Event: 2019 SCIL ‘Year in Review’.
· Media Mention: It was hard to look at their faces': MH17 victim's mother welcomes charges (Sydney Morning Herald (June 2019))
11) Reimaging Expropriation in International Investment Law (February 2019).
· Location: University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
· Event: ANZSIL International Economic Law Interest Group 2019 Workshop.
10) Reprisals Against Illegal Investments (January 2019 (invited speaker)).
· Location: National University of Singapore, Singapore.
· Event: ‘Investors’ International Law’.
9) “In Accordance with Host State Law”-Clauses, Inherent Legality, and Good Faith Requirements (December 2018 (invited speaker)).
· Location: University of Vienna, Austria.
· Event: ‘Investment Protection Standards and the Rule of Law’.
8) The Defence of Mismanagement in International Investment Law (December 2018 (invited speaker)).
· Location: University of Dundee, United Kingdom.
· Event: Presentation for the monthly academic staff meeting of the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy.
7) Rethinking Expropriation of Intellectual Property Investments (May 2018 (invited speaker)).
· Location: Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Szeged), Hungary.
6) Environmental Warning Labels: the Perspective from International Investment Law (April 2018).
· Location: Masaryk University, Czechia.
· Event: ‘Contemporary Challenges to International Law and Policy on Sustainable Development, Energy, Climate Change, Environmental Protection, Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer’.
5) An Overview of Contributory Fault Defences in International Investment Law (August 2017).
· Location: University of Sydney (Sydney Centre for International Law), Australia.
· Event: Workshop dedicated to topic.
4) Intellectual Property Investments and the Locality Condition for Jurisdiction (January 2016).
· Location: Kobe University, Japan.
· Event: ‘2nd Kobe Seminar on International Investment Law 2016’.
3) Causation, Expropriation, and Taxation (November 2015).
· Location: University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
· Event: ‘Settlement of Tax Disputes Under International Law’.
2) Contributory Fault in Foreign Investment Law (May 2015).
· Location: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
· Event: ‘Versicherungsmechanismen im Recht’ (Insurance Mechanisms in Law).
1) Expropriation of Upstream Assets (February 2015).
· Location: University of Eastern Finland, Finland.
· Event: ‘Energy Transitions’