SIEL 2012 Conference Programme

Abstract

The Third Biennial Global Conference of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) will be held in Singapore and hosted by the National University of Singapore’s Centre for International Law (CIL) and Faculty of Law on 12-14 July 2012. The CIL website for the conference, which includes helpful information about the venue, such as suggested hotels. Registration may be found here at the SIEL website.

Over the course of the last two decades, the communities of scholars, practitioners and others active in the area of international economic law have grown and diversified in ways that few could have predicted. The field of international economic law now includes a diverse array of participants and covers many new substantive issues. Inevitably, the term international economic law defies easy definition: it is at once a fully integrated part of public international law and an identifiable field in its own right.

This conference provides a venue for exploring many different faces of international economic law. Given that the aim of the Society includes fostering research in the area of IEL and promoting cooperation among all parts within the field, the SIEL Global Conference offers a forum for those inside and outside academia to share pedagogical and research methods, as well as to explore greater cooperation among the many different constituencies of the field.

Keywords: International economic law, Investment, Multilateralism, Investor-state arbitration, WTO, WTI, RTA’s, Trade and agriculture, International climate change regime, Multilateral trade, International dispute resolution, SIEL 2012 Singapore

JEL Classification: F00, F01, F02, F10, F13, F14, F15, F21, F33, F42