1st Edition
Investment Law and the Energy Transition Promotion, Protection and Arbitration
List of Contributors
Foreword
Chapter 1 - Investment Law and Energy Transition: Promotion, Protection and Arbitration
Kaj Hobér, Volker Roeben, Ylli Dautaj
Chapter 2 - The International Legal and Regulatory Framework of Climate Change
Sofia Kovacevic
Chapter 3 - The Economics of Energy Transition
Nima Farrahi
Chapter 4 - Climate Litigation: Climate Change, Transition, and Human Rights
María José Alarcón
Chapter 5 - The International Energy Architecture and Energy Transition
Volker Roeben
Chapter 6 - Planning and Drafting, and Interpreting Investment Treaties in the Era of Energy Transition
Samira Sulejmanovic
Chapter 7 - Critiques of ISDS and the Arbitration Community’s Response
George Bermann
Chapter 8 - Reforming International Investment Law to Align with Climate Change: Substantive Issues and Solutions
Kabir Duggal, Andrés Alvarez Calderón
Chapter 9 - Reforming Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Procedure for Energy Transition Disputes: From Obstacle to Tool for Sustainable Development
Fahira Brodlija
Chapter 10 - The ‘Modernised’ Energy Charter Treaty: The Bridge and the Pathway Forward
Ylli Dautaj, Lei Chen
Chapter 11 - Case studies of energy transition cases
Filip Balcerzak
Chapter 12 - The Role of Investment Treaty Arbitration in the Global Governance of Energy Investments
Ana Stanic
Chapter 13 - Trends in Energy Disputes
Kaj Hobér
Index
Biography
Kaj Hobér is a leading figure in the field of international arbitration (commercial and investment). He has been the chair, sole arbitrator, and party-appointed arbitrator in over 300 arbitration matters. He was previously a partner with the leading Nordic law firm, Mannheimer Swartling and is now an Associate Member with 3 Verulam Buildings Gray’s Inn, London. He has acted as counsel in several hundreds of international arbitration matters, commercial and investment.
Volker Roeben is Professor of International Law and Dean at Durham Law School. He is also a visiting professor at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, a docent at the University of Turku, and an associate at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy of the University of Dundee. Formerly, Volker previously was senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative law and Public International Law, and a professor at Swansea University and the University of Dundee.
Ylli Dautaj is Associate Professor in Commercial Law and Commercial Arbitration at Durham Law School, UK. Ylli graduated with a PhD from University of Edinburgh (UK) as a stipendiary scholar of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities. He has taught in various jurisdictions, including at Penn State Dickinson Law, Jindal Global Law School, and Uppsala University. Meanwhile, Ylli founded DER Disputes and stands as counsel in international commercial and investment arbitration. He represents individuals, private enterprises, State-owned enterprises, and States in various disputes, including matters incidental or ancillary to arbitration. He focuses primarily in East-West disputes and energy-related disputes.
