Foreign Direct Investment International Moot Arbitration
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), and Centre of European
Law, King's College London (Prof. Piet Eeckhout, Dr Federico Ortino). 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. Before joining CILS he was a research assistant at Salzburg University under Professor
Christoph Schreuer and had been previously employed in the Legal Department of
Philips Petroleum Europe/Africa and in private practice at Shakespeare's Solicitors, Birmingham,
England. After his Bachelor of Arts (International Politcs) studies in California and New York, he obtained his LLB
from the University of Edinburgh (Old College), Scotland in 1987 and his LLM from McGeorge School of Law,
California in 1988. In 1992, he was admitted to the New York State Bar and continues to edit
and author several books and articles on public international, private international and comparative law, as well as European Union law. Chris
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 Dean and 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. Chris also serves as the FDI
Moot's co-director with Christian Campbell. More
Antonida Netzer
Dr. Antonida Netzer is a lawyer with the Deutsche Institution für
Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit.Previously, she was charged with the management of several CILS programs as a consultant, including the FDI Moot, and now acts as its Assistant Director for Prof. Gibson and Mr. Campbell. Dr. 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.
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 Wälde
The late 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 Wälde family has
permitted the FDI Moot to name its prize for the best advocate in honour of
Prof. Wälde. The prize will be known as the Thomas Wälde Advocacy Award for
Best Oralist. It will be awarded to the best individual advocate of the Oral
Hearings.
Administration
CILS manages the FDI Moot on a day-to-day basis and is responsible for other specific tasks under the founders' cooperation agreement. Ms. Manuela Wedam, BA, also helps run the FDI Moot.