Foreign Direct Investment International Moot Competition

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FDI Moot 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 (Christian Campbell)

Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts (Prof. Christopher Gibson)

Pepperdine University Law School, Malibu, California (Prof. Jack Coe)

Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland (Prof. Thomas Wälde)

German Institution of Arbitration (DIS), Frankfurt/Cologne, Germany

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.

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

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. More

Abba Kolo

Dr Abba Kolo joined the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law in September 2006 as lecturer in Energy/Investment Law. Before joining the Centre, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Maiduguri, and a visiting Lecturer at Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. Dr Kolo obtained a PhD degree in International Economic Law at the University of Dundee and LLM from the University of Warwick (with distinction). His research interests include oil and gas law, natural resources management and taxation, environmental law, and international arbitration. His recent work has focused on political and regulatory risks in the natural resources industry and tax-related investment disputes. His most recent collaborative research (with Professor T Wälde) on coverage of taxation under investment treaties is to be published in the Inter Tax, September 2007. Dr Kolo also consults governments and international organisations on international investment law. He was invited by UNCTAD to contribute to the World Investment Report 2007 with a study on the role of Transnational Corporations in the oil and gas industry of Equatorial Guinea.. More

Thomas Wälde

Thomas Wälde is a specialist in international investment, economic, oil, gas, energy and mineral law, with a particular focus on arbitration in these fields. Former Interregional Adviser on Petroleum, Mineral & Investment Law with the United Nations and Executive Director of the Dundee University Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy. Dr. iur (summa cum laude) Frankfurt), LL.M. (Harvard), Rechtsanwalt (Frankfurt) and barrister (Lincoln's Inn & Essex Court Chambers, London) Professor (and Jean-Monnet Chair) of International Economic, Natural Resources & Energy Law. Frequent expert witness, litigation consultant and expert counsel, arbitrator and mediator in large, complex cross-border disputes in the oil, gas, energy and mining industries (including finance and infrastructure). Appointed as arbitrator in investment disputes under NAFTA Chapter XI and BITs. Litigation adviser (expert counsel) in several large-scale international arbitration cases, mainly investment and commercial (in oil, gas and energy primarily). Adviser to most relevant international organisations, including World Bank, UN, Unctad, UN/ECE, EC Commission, APEC, OPEC, IEA, IUCN on energy (including renewable) law, dispute resolution mechanisms, legislative reform. Adviser to governments and international companies. More

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

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). Currently she is defending her PhD thesis on international commercial arbitration at the University of Salzburg.