Foreign Direct Investment International Moot Competition

FDI Moot Founders and Administration

Initiated in 2006, five institutions have meanwhile come together to establish the FDI Moot as a new international moot court competition focusing on investor-State disputes:


CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES, Salzburg, Austria (Mr. Christian Campbell)	Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts (Prof. Christopher Gibson)	Pepperdine University Law School, Malibu, California (Prof. Jack Coe)	German Institution of Arbitration (DIS), Frankfurt/Cologne, Germany (Mr. Jens Bredow)	Centre of European Law, King's College London (Prof. Piet Eeckhout, Dr Federico Ortino)

Founders Board

The representatives of the founders determine the policy of the FDI Moot and supervise its implementation in consultation with the Advisory Board.

Jens Bredow

Jens Bredow is a German Rechtsanwalt (Cologne) and Secretary General of the Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit. He is a member of the Law Society in Cologne and is a frequent speaker at international congresses on resolving business disputes through conciliation and arbitration. He also lectures on this topic at the University of Bonn and at other academic institutions worldwide and has authored numerous articles on the subject. Mr. Bredow has played a key role in the DIS' establishment of the Frankfurt International Arbitration Centre, an institution with which ICSID has an arrangement under Article 63 of the Convention for holding ICSID conciliation and arbitration proceedings.

Christian Campbell

Christian Campbell is Assistant Director of the Center for International Legal Studies and Adjunct Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School (Boston, Massachusetts) and Salzburg University, Austria. He was a research assistant at Salzburg University under Professor Christoph Schreuer and was previously employed in the Legal Department of Philips Petroleum Europe/Africa and Shakespeare's Solicitors, Birmingham, England. After his BA studies in California and New York, he obtained his LLB from Edinburgh University, Scotland and his LLM from McGeorge School of Law, California. In 1992, he was admitted to the New York State Bar and has edited and authored several books and articles on international and comparative law. He serves as the FDI Moot's co-director with Christopher Gibson.

Jack J. Coe, Jr.

Jack Coe is a Professor of Law at Pepperdine University Law School, specializing in private international law. He has been a clerk to the Honorable Richard C. Allison at the Iran-US. Claims Tribunal, the Hague and now consults with governments and multinational corporations in relation to commercial and direct investment disputes under the NAFTA and Bilateral Investment Treaties. Professor Coe is an elected member of the American Law Institute, admitted to practice in California and Washington, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London. He is a co-chair of the International Commercial Dispute Resolution Committee of the ABA International Law Section, and chairs the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. Professor Coe has argued international arbitral claims under NAFTA, and served as an expert in investor-state arbitrations. He is also an arbitrator listed on the panel of the International Centre for Dispute resolution (AAA). Prof. Coe holds a BA, with distinction from the University of California, a JD from Loyola Marymount School of Law, an LLM from University Exeter, and a PhD (Law) from London School of Economics and Political Science. Professor Coe is a regular speaker in Europe, Latin America, and Asia before learned and professional societies, has helped organize numerous conferences and programs related to international dispute resolution, and has taught courses in international programs for Notre Dame and University of San Diego Law Schools, among others. He is the author of numerous articles on arbitration, private international law, and related topics. More

Piet Eeckhout

Piet Eeckhout studied law (lic.iur.) and European law (lic.Eur.iur) at the University of Ghent, Belgium, where he also obtained his PhD degree. Before joining King’s in 1998 he taught at the University of Ghent and at the University of Brussels (VUB). Between 1994 and 1998 he worked in the chambers of Advocate General Jacobs at the European Court of Justice. Professor Eeckhout is Director of the Centre of European Law, at King’s (see www.kcl.ac.uk/cel). He is co-editor of the Yearbook of European Law, and also teaches at the College of Europe, Bruges. He is an associate academic member of Matrix Chambers, London. Professor Eeckhout is a leading authority EU law and international economic law. He is the author of External Relations of the European Union (Oxford University Press 2004). In 2004 he delivered the General Course at the Academy of European Law, Florence, and in 2006 he was General Rapporteur at the biennial FIDE (Federation of European Law Associations) Conference.

Christopher Gibson

Christopher Gibson is an Associate Professor of Law at the Suffolk University Law School (Boston, Massachusetts). He was employed most recently as a partner in the London office of Steptoe & Johnson, where he specialized in the areas of international dispute resolution, technology and intellectual property in an international context. Following law school graduation, Prof. Gibson was a law clerk to a federal district judge in the Northern District of California, then served as a Legal Assistant at the Iran-United States Claim Tribunal in the Hague and was later engaged in legal practice in San Francisco. He also served for three years as Senior Legal Officer for the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva (Head of the "C" Claims Division), followed by a four year period as Head of the Electronic Commerce Law Section and Legal Officer of the Arbitration Center of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. Prof. Gibson holds a BA from University of Chicago; an MPP from Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and a JD from University of California, Berkeley. Professor Gibson has lectured and published extensively on international dispute resolution, international arbitration, electronic commerce and intellectual property. He serves as the FDI Moot's co-director with Christian Campbell. More

Federico Ortino

Dr Federico Ortino is Reader in International Economic Law in the School of Law at King’s College London. He joined King’s in 2007. He is a member of the ILA Committee on International Trade Law and co-rapporteur to the ILA Committee on the Law of Foreign Investment; founding Committee Member of the Society of International Economic Law; consultative member of the Investment Treaty Forum; editorial board member of the Journal of International Economic Law; Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy, InvestmentClaims.com, Transnational Dispute Management. Previously, Director, Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London (2005-2007); Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Florence and Trento (2002-2007); Emile Noël Fellow and Fulbright Scholar at the NYU Jean Monnet Center in New York (2004); Legal Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Division on Investment and Enterprises (2003). He is a qualified attorney in Italy and in the state of New York. He holds: LLB, University of Florence; LLM, Georgetown University Law Center; PhD, European University Institute..

Thomas Waelde

Prof. Thomas Wälde, a renowned specialist in international investment, economic, oil, gas, energy and mineral law brought the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy and the FDI Moot together in 2007. Following his sudden passing on 11 October 2008, Dr. Abba Kolo, a lecturer at CEMPLP sought to continue Thomas' commitment to the FDI Moot, but in the transition to its new leadership, CEMPLP has deemed it more prudent to assume a passive role for the time being. The Waelde family has permitted the FDI Moot to name its prize for the best advocate in honour of Prof. Waelde. The prize will be known as the Thomas Waelde Advocacy Award for Best Oralist. It will be awarded to the best individual advocate of the Oral Hearings.

Management

CILS manages the FDI Moot on a day-to-day basis and is responsible for other specific tasks under the founders' cooperation agreement..

Antonida Netzer

Dr. Antonida Netzer is a law editor for the CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES, and is also charged with the management of several its projects, including the FDI Moot. She is also a legal consultant at Salpius Law Office in Salzburg, Austria. Previously, she was an associate at Capital Legal Services International LLC in St. Petersburg, Russia. Ms. Netzer obtained her law degree from Mari State University (Russia) and studied at the Law Schools of Wayne State University (Detroit), Central European University (Budapest) and Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester). She completed her PhD in international commercial arbitration at the University of Salzburg in 2008.