The new generation of investment law – a European perspective

A McGill Dispute Resolution talk with Jan Kleinheisterkamp, who is an Associate Professor of Law at LSE, where he teaches international commercial arbitration and contracts. He is a qualified German lawyer and is admitted to the bar in Hamburg. Prior to joining LES, he worked as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (1998-2004) and was appointed as an assistant professor at the HEC School of Management, Paris (2004-2008).

Dr. Kleinheisterkamp is currently working on an intellectual history of international arbitration, which analyses the genealogy, the competition and cross-fertilization of conceptions of, and discourses on, arbitration in various jurisdictions, its role as a tool of self-regulation of the commercial world and its relation to the State in a globalized economy. He co-heads the LSE Transnational Law Project and his research focuses mainly on international contracts, with special emphasis on arbitration, conflict of laws, and comparative law. He is generally interested in the legal problems relating to the international dimension of trade, such as investment treaty law and issues of law and development with special focus on Latin America. 

Kindly note that this talk takes place in Professor Andrea Bjorklund's class.

RSVP: kuzi.charamba [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Kuzi Charamba).