Originally from Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Law - Volume 8

Authors: Mr. James Egerton-Vernon

Mr. Paul Barker

Moderator: Mr. Timothy Nelson

Commentators: Professor Joshua Karton

Ms. Caline Mouawad

Mr. Matthew Kronby

Professor Julián Cárdenas Garcia

Ms. Janet Whittaker

PANEL THREE

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

PROFESSOR SOURGENS: You are in the hands of one of our veterans--really more by experience than age, of course--and I’m looking forward to a very riveting discussion of an issue that I think links up nicely with some of the things that we’ve heard earlier as well as during the keynote.

Mr. Tim Nelson, at Skadden in New York. I will leave it, Tim, to you to introduce the rest of the panel. I’m very much looking forward to the discussion.

MR. NELSON: Thank you very much. It’s once again a privilege to be here and to be discussing a very important emerging issue.

We have a very distinguished panel. From my furthest onwards, we have Mr. Matthew Kronby, of Bennett Jones in Toronto; we have Ms. Janet Whittaker, of Simpson Thacher in New York; we have Professor Joshua Karton, of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario; we have Ms. Caline Mouawad, of King & Spalding New York; and we have Professor Julián Cárdenas Garcia, Visiting Professor at the University of Houston and Doctoral Fellow at the University of Bourgogne in Dijon in France, and a very distinguished Venezuelan scholar.

So, we have two young and energetic scholars, Mr. James Egerton-Vernon, of Jones Day; and we have Mr. Paul Barker, from Cleary Gottlieb, based in London.