Conferences and Publications
Speaking Engagements and Lectures
2025
Navigating Climate Change and Investment Disputes: The ASIL Task Force on ISDS and Climate Change, a Roundtable Presentation, American Society of International Law, Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
April 17, 2025
La Arbitrabilidad de Los Litigios Con Entidades de Derecho Público: Perspectiva Franco-Latinoamericana, Paris Arbitration Week
Paris, France
April 10, 2025
Arbitration and State Sovereignty: What are its limits?
International Arbitration Congress of Honduras, Tegucigalpa
March 2025
2024
Transparency in International Investment Agreements.
UNCITRAL LAC Days United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
Webinar, November 20, 2024
Diverging approaches to disclosures and conflict of interest.
GAR Live: Civil Law Summit, Madrid, Spain
October 9, 2024
Los desafíos económicos y políticos del arbitraje: ¿los contratos de inversión remplazarán a los tratados?
Conf. Latinoamericana de Arbitraje 2024, CEDEP, Río de Janeiro, Brasil
June 20-21, 2024
O depoimento escrito da testemunha de fatos: a perspectiva da América Latina
CIArb Brazil Branch Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
June 18, 2024
The year ahead in ISDS, GAR Live
ISDS 2024
June 5, 2024
Ensuring the Effective Constitution of the Arbitral Tribunal
ICC International Arbitration Congress, XV Edition, San José de Costa Rica
February, 7-9 2024
2023
Expert Consultation – Perspectives on CEDAW´s future GR No. 40 on Women´s Equal and Meaningful Participation in Int´l Decision-Making Systems
GQUAL Campaign, Wash. D.C.
25-26 sept. de 2023
Procedimientos Paralelos: tribunales internacionales, jueces y organismos de control
Colombia Arbitration Week
Webinar, 18 de septiembre, 2023
ESG and Investment Arbitration
Arbitration Center of the Lima Chamber of Commerce
Lima, June 6, 2023
The role of NGOs, local communities, and indigenous groups in the global investment governance
International Law Association 150th Anniversary, Paris.
Webinar, April 3, 2023
2022 - 2020
Environmental v. Investment Protections – Are they mutually exclusive?
ITA-ALARB Americas Workshop
Webinar, Sept. 8, 2022
Seminario sobre Derecho Internacional
Universidad de Chile
Webinar, June 17, 2021
A Multilateral Reform Agreement to Reform ISDS
Washington Arbitration Week
Webinar, Dec. 1, 2020
Encouraging Mediation Through a Multilateral Instrument on ISDS Reform
UNCITRAL WG III Virtual Pre-Intersessional Meeting - The Government of Hong Kong S.A.R.
Webinar, Nov. 9, 2020
The Draft Code of Conduct, Implementation and Enforcement
ITA
Webinar, Sept. 25, 2020
Challenges for investors and governments in the use of investment arbitration in times of COVID
ICC México
Webinar, Sept. 11, 2020
Draft Code of Conduct for Adjudicators in ISDS: Low-Hanging Fruit or Unreachable Goal?
Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law
Webinar, July 2, 2020
2019 - 2016
VII Int´l Seminar on Investment Arbitration
Cámara de Comercio de Santiago
Santiago, Sept. 24, 2019
Technology and International Arbitration
Young ICCA/ICC YAF
Santiago de Chile, Aug. 22, 2019
ICSID Arbitration & Latin America: Relevant Trends
Institute for Transnational Arbitration- ALARB, Natural Resources Arbitrations
Santiago de Chile, May 4, 2018
Deciding Case Strategy
APEC Capacity Building Workshop
Washington D.C., Oct. 4, 2017
Who Should Regulate the Advocates and What Should be Regulated? The Future of Ethics Regulation in Int´l Arbitration
ITA-ASIL Conference
Washington, D.C., March 30, 2016
Enforcing Environmental Obligations for the Benefit of All Stakeholders: An Int´l Court for the Environment, Int´l Arbitration & other Legal Avenues
Law Justice and Development Week, World Bank
Washington D.C., Dec. 7, 2016
2015 - 2012
Arbitral Institutions, Making Arbitration Work for Africa
Casablanca Arbitration Days 2015
Casablanca, Morocco, Dec. 11-12, 2015
Provisional Measures in Investment Arbitration - Investment Protection and Sovereignty, Asociación Latinoamericana de Arbitraje (ALARB)
Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá
Colombia, June 2, 2015
Certificate on Int’l Commercial and Investment Arbitration
Università Roma Tre – UNIDROIT
Rome, Italy, September 2014
ICSID Workshop: Consent & the Notion of Investment
International Academy for Arbitration Law
Paris, France, July 15-16, 2014
Costs in Arbitration
12th IFCAI Biennial International Conference
Caracas, Venezuela, March 15, 2013
Arbitration in Times of Crisis, 2012 Canadian Council on International Law, Annual Conference - SOS International Law: International Law in Times of Crisis and Emergency
Ottawa, Canada
Nov. 2012
ICSID and the Americas – Transparency and Confidentiality, ICDR’s 10th Annual Miami International Conference: The Greatest Hits
Miami, FL
Sept. 9-11, 2012
Publications
Books and Book Chapters
- Commentary to Article 10, co-author in Commentary to the Code of Conduct for Arbitrators and Adjudicators (forthcoming, Kluwer 2025)
- Building International Investment Law: The First 50 years of ICSID (co-editor with M. Kinnear, G. Fischer, J. Mínguez Almeida, and L. Torres (eds.)), Kluwer 2016
- “International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes”, co-author, in The Rules, Practice and Jurisprudence of International Courts and Tribunals (C. Giorgetti (ed.), Nijhoff, 2012) (77-110)
Articles and Blogs
- Addressing Climate Change in ISDS: Introducing the ASIL Task Force on ISDS and Climate Change, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (forthcoming, April 2025)
- CEDAW’s General Recommendation 40: A Catalyst for Gender Equality in International Investment Arbitration, Opinio Juris, Online Symposium on GR40 (January 2025)
- “Colombia: Constitutional Court Rulings on the Applicability of International Arbitration to State Contracts” International Disputes Quarterly (2007)
- “Immigration, Regional Agreements and Social Change” Capitulos, SELA, Venezuela (2002)