The Annual Gillian White Lecture
| Dates: | 25 March 2019 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 19:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Law |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public, Post 16 |
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| Speaker: | Andrea K. Bjorklund |
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The Annual Lectures concentrate on international economic law and aim to
commemorate the legacy of the first woman to be appointed professor in law in
mainland Britain, Professor Gillian White.
After having worked as research assistant to Sir Elihu Lauterpacht at the
University of Cambridge from 1961 to 1967, Gillian White moved to the
University of Manchester where she worked until her retirement in 1991.
Among many other academic achievements, she launched the Melland
Schill Studies in International Law monograph series published by the
Manchester University Press. At a time when the number of women academics
was only a few, in 1975 she became the first woman international law professor in the UK.
This year's lecture will be delivered by Andrea K. Bjorklund, Professor of
Law at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, on The Dispute Settlement
Minuet Between Trade and Investment
Trade and investment law seem to be an oddly inverse relationship when it
comes to preferred modes of dispute settlement. In the trade law realm,
the survival of the “crown jewel” of the WTO – its Dispute Settlement Body
is uncertain. The appellate body has recently come in for special
opprobrium. Arbitration is one of the suggested alternatives should
existing dispute settlement procedures cease to function. In the
investment law sphere, arbitration is apparently more and more
disfavoured, and the preferred alternative is: some kind of standing body
with the pièce de résistance – an appellate body – at its apex. Why are
these two regimes asynchronous? Can the successes enjoyed by the WTO
appellate body in its early days be successfully transferred to the
investment sphere? What are the pitfalls that an investment appellate body
should avoid?
Andrea K. Bjorklund is the L. Yves Fortier Chair in International Arbitration
and International Commercial Law at McGill University Faculty of Law. She
is an adviser to the American Law Institute’s project on restating the U.S.
law of international commercial arbitration. She is also a member of the
Advisory Board of the Investment Treaty Forum of the British Institute for
International and Comparative Law.
The lecture will be followed by a reception in the foyer of the Roscoe
Building, to which all attendees are invited
Speaker
Andrea K. Bjorklund
Role: Professor of Law
Organisation: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Travel and Contact Information
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Theatre A
Roscoe Building
Manchester
