The 2024 Summer Law School on International Investment Law, co-organized for the 9th consecutive year by ELSA Athens and the Athens Public International Law Center (Athens PIL) of the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, under the academic supervision of Assistant Professor Anastasios Gourgourinis, successfully took place in Athens between July 14 and July 21, 2024.
The Summer Law School on International Investment Law 2023 consisted of more than 30 hours of interactive lectures and workshops over 6 days, and will provide participants with all the essential tools to grasp the key aspects of international investment law, while also addressing some of the currently “hottest topics” of the field. The programme will also feature a Skills Training Workshop on Written and Oral Advocacy in Investment Arbitration offered by ICDR Y&I.
The Faculty of the Summer Law School on International Investment Law 2024 included (in alphabetical order):
- Dimitrios Andriopoulos (Disputes lawyer, Zepos & Yannopoulos)
- John A. Apsouris (Group General Counsel, HELLENiQ ENERGY & Chair of the Legal Issue Group of Fuels Europe, a division of the European Petroleum Refiners Association)
- Ludovica Chiussi Curzi (Assistant Professor of International Law, University of Bologna)
- David Collins (Professor of International Economic Law, City University of London)
- Georgios Dimitropoulos (Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Hamad Bin Khalifa University College of Law)
- Katia Fach Gómez (Professor, University of Zaragoza)
- Julien Fouret (Partner, Eversheds Sutherland, Paris)
- Emmanuel Giakoumakis (Associate Lawyer, Steptoe LLP, London)
- Anastasios Gourgourinis (Assistant Professor in Public International Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Law; Athens PIL)
- Christoph Herrmann (Professor of European and International Economic Law, University of Passau)
- Emma Iannini (Contract Lawyer, Baker Botts LLP, London)
- Eirini-Stella Leptourgou (Counsel, ICC International Court of Arbitration)
- Alexander G. Leventhal (Partner, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Paris)
- Nicholas Moussas (Managing Partner, Moussas & Partners)
- Thomas-Nektarios Papanastasiou (Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Neapolis University, Pafos)
- Markus Petsche (Associate Professor, Central European University)
- Lauge Poulsen (Professor and Deputy Head of Department of Political Science, University College London)
- Sergio Puig De La Parra (Chair in International Economic Law, European University Institute & Evo DeConcini Professor of Law, University of Arizona)
- Michail Risvas (Lecturer in Law, University of Southampton)
- Sabrina Robert-Cuendet (Professor of International Law, Le Mans University)
- Julian Scheu (Junior Professor of Public Law, International Law, and International Investment Law, University of Cologne & General Manager, International Investment Law Centre Cologne)
- Olga Sendentska (Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer LLP, Frankfurt)
- Shane Spelliscy (Director General and Deputy Legal Advisor, Trade Law Bureau at Government of Canada &Chair of UNCITRAL Working Group III on Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform)
- Panos Theodoropoulos (International dispute resolution lawyer)
- Anna Ventouratou (Lecturer in International Trade Law, University of Sheffield)
- Maria Xiouri (Senior lecturer in Law, University of Lincoln)
- Yanwen Zhang (Assistant Professor in Public International Law, Durham University)