Introduction

It is great pleasure to welcome you here today to the second conference held under the auspices of the Investment Treaty Forum. I am at the British Institute, as are most of the people in this morning's panel, in one capacity or another. As you may know, the Institute has established this forum as a centre for research and policy discussion into the topic of investment treaties and disputes. The forum will build on the existing activities at the Institute in public international law and international commercial arbitration. This is the area where these two strands of our ...