Recent Events

• Energy Security
  18 October 2024
  The London Conference on International Law 2024
  London Conference on International Law 2024
  London, UK
  Speaker: Conway Blake
  Speaking Engagements
• Trends and Predictions for Climate Change Litigation
  16 October 2024
  Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Bechtel
  The London Conference on International Law 2024
  London/Remote
  Speaker: Conway Blake
  Speaking Engagements
• The International Court of Justice Back in Style
  5 June 2024
  American Society of International Law
  2024 ASIL Abroad Meeting in Geneva
  Geneva, Switzerland
  Speaker: Catherine Amirfar
  Speaking Engagements
• Resolving Disputes Involving States and State Entities
  4 June 2024
  London International Disputes Week
  London Disputes Week
  London, UK
  Speaker: Lord Goldsmith KC
  Speaking Engagements
• Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
  7 February 2024
  Thoughtleaders4U
  Sovereign & States Summit
  London, UK
  Speaker: Samantha J. Rowe
  Speaking Engagements
• Exploring International Claims Tribunals
  7 February 2024
  Thoughtleaders4U
  Sovereign & States Summit
  London, UK
  Speaker: Samantha J. Rowe
  Speaking Engagements
• The Inside Track - Views from Within a State
  7 February 2024
  Thoughtleaders4U
  Sovereign & States Summit
  London, UK
  Speaker: Samantha J. Rowe
  Speaking Engagements
• Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
  6 February 2024
  Thoughtleaders4U
  Sovereign & States Summit
  London, UK
  Speaker: Samantha J. Rowe
  Speaking Engagements
• The ECT Running Out of Energy
  6 February 2024
  Thoughtleaders 4
  Sovereign & States Summit
  London, UK
  Speaker: Samantha J. Rowe
  Speaking Engagements
• UNCLOS’ Role in Developing International Law and Supporting Boundary Dispute Resolution
  16 November 2023
  Essex Court Chambers & Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
  London, UK
  Speaker: Catherine Amirfar, Conway Blake, Aimee-Jane Lee
  Speaking Engagements
• Reproductive Rights in Latin America and Pro Bono: From Abortion to Obstetric Violence
  18 October 2023
  PILnet
  PILnet Global Forum
  Brussels, Belgium
  Speaker: Mark McCloskey
  Speaking Engagements
• Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Armed Conflict: Practical Approaches to Improving Compliance and Accountability
  11 October 2023
  OSCE
  Warsaw Human Dimension Conference 2023
  Warsaw, Poland
  Speaker: Monika Hlavkova
  Speaking Engagements
• International Adjudication & Global Crises: the Devil in the Details
  4 May 2023
  LALIVE and the Geneva Graduate Institute Geneva
  LALIVE Annual Lecture
  Speaker: Catherine Amirfar
  Speaking Engagements
• Everyone's (Not) an Expert: Managing the Lawyer/Expert Witness Relationship in Arbitrations
  13 April 2023
  London Very Young Arbitration Practitioners
  London
  Speaker: Aimee-Jane Lee, Svetlana Portman
  Speaking Engagements
• International Investment Law
  3 April 2023
  ILA Paris, Prof. Manjiao Chi (Cliff)
  ILA 150 Anniversary Webinar on International Investment Law
  Paris, France
  Speaker: Catherine Amirfar
  Speaking Engagements
• Where to Draw the Line on Confidentiality? The Role of the Seat in Protecting Privacy in Arbitration
  22 March 2023
  BVI International Arbitration Centre
  BVI Arbitration Week
  Webcast
  Speaker: Conway Blake
  Speaking Engagements
• SIDS & COP27: What Next for Loss and Damage and Climate Justice?
  5 December 2022
  The Faculty of Law, UWI, Cave Hill Campus and Caribbean Branch of the International Law Association
  Webcast
  Speaker: Conway Blake
  Speaking Engagements
• The Review of the Arbitration Act 1996: How Do We Maintain English Arbitration Law as State of the Art?
  16 November 2022
  British Institute of International and Comparative Law (“BIICL”)
  BIICL Seminar
  London, UK
  Speaker: Lord Goldsmith KC, Conway Blake
  Speaking Engagements
• Access to Remedy
  13 October 2022
  United Nations Human Rights
  African BHR Forum
  Webcast
  Speaker: Samantha J. Rowe
  Speaking Engagements
• Adaptation and Loss and Damage
  5 October 2022
  Chatham House
  Chatham House Climate Change Conference
  To view recording click here
  London, UK
  Speaker: Samantha J. Rowe
  Speaking Engagements
• Reimagining Remedy: Developing Effective Grievance Mechanisms and Remedies
  22 June 2022
  International Bar Association
  UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights Webinar Series
  Webcast
  Speaking Engagements
• Specific Challenges to Achieving Accountability for Acts of Torture and Other Ill-treatment in Armed Conflicts and How to Overcome Them
  13 June 2022
  IAPB
  OSCE International Conference on Fighting Impunity for Acts of Torture
  Hofburg, Austria
  Speaker: Monika Hlavkova
  Speaking Engagements
• From Diplomatic Fora to International Litigation
  9 June 2022
  BIICL/King’s College London
  Expert Workshop on Inter-State Communications before UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies
  London, UK
  Speaking Engagements
• Reimagining Remedy: Where Do We Go From Here?
  8 June 2022
  International Bar Association
  IBA Webinar Series: Business and Human Rights
  Webcast
  Speaker: Samantha J. Rowe
  Speaking Engagements
• The United Kingdom and International Law: Can the UK Fill the Vacuum at the Helm of International Legal Order?
  11 April 2022
  Centre for the Study of United Nations & Jindal Society of International Law
  Colloquium on Challenges to Global Governance and Humanities in the 21st Century
  Webcast
  Speaker: Lord Goldsmith KC
  Speaking Engagements
• Developing U.S. Sanctions Against Russia: What Banks and Other Financial Institutions Should Know
  24 February 2022
  The Risk Management Association
  Webcast
  Speaker: Samantha J. Rowe
  Speaking Engagements
• International Law Panel
  2 February 2022
  Warwick Law Society
  Warwick Law Society Career-Focused Discussions
  Webcast
  Speaker: Shreya Aren
  Speaking Engagements
• The Future of Investment Law in the EU after Komstroy v. Moldova
  1 December 2021
  Joint ITA and IBA Arbitration Committee
  ITA IBA Conference Programme 3.0
  Webcast
  Speaker: Ina C. Popova
  Speaking Engagements
• Digital Disruption: Human Rights, Tech, and Reimagining Accountability
  5 November 2021
  Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
  Webcast
  Speaker: Samantha J. Rowe
  Speaking Engagements
• Environmental Degradation and Indigenous Rights: Is International Law Fit for Purpose?
  30 October 2021
  American Branch of the International Law Association
  Webcast
  Speaking Engagements
• Authoritarian State Accountability via Private Sector Strategies
  26 October 2021
  Australian National University
  Webcast
  Speaking Engagements
• Business and Human Rights: The Next Ten Years of the UN Guiding Principles
  25 October 2021
  BritishAmerican Business
  Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Series
  Webcast
  Speaker: Samantha J. Rowe
  Speaking Engagements
• Human Rights – Review of the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights
  18-22 October 2021
  International Chamber of Commerce
  ICC International Trade & Prosperity Week
  Webcast
  Speaker: Samantha J. Rowe
  Speaking Engagements
• Banks and Climate Change
  29 April 2021
  Debevoise & Plimpton and Risk Management Association
  Webcast
  Speaker: Samantha J. Rowe
  Speaking Engagements
• Use of Trusts to Mitigate Political Risk – The U.S. and Switzerland
  24-25 March 2021
  Stikeman Elliott (London) LLP
  Advising LatAm Families
  Webcast
  Speaker: Samantha J. Rowe
  Speaking Engagements
• After Brexit: Arbitration in the Civil and Common Law Worlds at a Crossroads
  11 December 2020
  Latham & Watkins and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
  Young ITA
  Virtual
  Speaker: Mark McCloskey
  Speaking Engagements
• Human Rights, Social and Human Capital Considerations
  12 November 2020
  Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
  ESG Webinar Series
  Webinar
  Speaker: David W. Rivkin, Samantha J. Rowe, Jin-Hyuk Jang
  Speaking Engagements
• Disclosures of Environmental Risks and Adverse Impacts – Categorising Sustainable Investments for the Taxonomy Regulation
  5 November 2020
  Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
  ESG Webinar Series
  Webinar
  Speaker: Samantha J. Rowe, Stuart Hammer, John Young
  Speaking Engagements
• Strategic Litigation
  19 October 2020
  PILnet Global Forum
  Webinar
  Speaking Engagements
• International Law Careers Panel
  1 October 2020
  The University of Tulsa College of Law
  International Law Careers Panel
  Webinar
  Speaker: Svetlana Portman
  Speaking Engagements
• Constitutional Law
  1 August 2020
  Fountain Court Chambers
  Webinar
  Speaker: Lord Goldsmith KC
  Speaking Engagements
• Human Rights Cases in Natural Resources
  11-14 June 2020
  Center for International Legal Studies
  CILS International Arbitration Symposium
  Salzburg, Austria
  Speaking Engagements
• Issues of Arbitrability, Cyber-Security and Public Law
  25 May 2020
  Moot Court Society of National Law School of India University
  13th edition of National Law School Trilegal International Arbitration Moot
  Webinar
  Speaker: Lord Goldsmith KC, Patrick Taylor, Shreya Aren
  Speaking Engagements
• Human Rights Cases: Procedure and Fact Finding Strategy
  22 April 2020
  Qatar University
  Guest Lecture
  Virtual
  Speaking Engagements
• Sanctions – Politics, Procedures and Private International Law
  24-25 October 2019
  International Bar Association
  3rd IBA Litigation Committee Conference on Private International Law
  Milan, Italy
  Speaker: Christopher K. Tahbaz
  Speaking Engagements
• Contributory Fault, Responsibility for Continuous and Composite Acts, Cumulative Effect of a Series of Acts
  10 May 2019
  British Institute of International and Comparative Law
  Thirty Second ITF Public Conference: State Responsibility in Investment Law
  London, UK
  Speaker: Lord Goldsmith KC
  Speaking Engagements
• International Lawyers
  11 February 2019
  Elsa King’s College
  International Lawyer’s Panel
  London, UK
  Speaking Engagements
• Business and the Rule of Law
  12 October 2018
  International Bar Association
  IBA Rule of Law Forum
  Rome, Italy
  Speaker: David W. Rivkin
  Speaking Engagements
• A Career in Public International Law
  29 August 2018
  Young Public International Law Group
  YPILG Seminar
  Debevoise & Plimpton, London
  Speaker: Lord Goldsmith KC
  Speaking Engagements
• Reparations and Remedies
  12 July 2018
  Leiden University
  Human Rights, Transitional Justice and Environmental Protection
  The Hague, Netherlands
  Speaking Engagements
• Reparations
  29 June 2018
  Leiden University
  Expert Seminar on International Law and Environmental Peacebuilding
  Leiden, The Netherlands
  Speaking Engagements
• Women Practitioners in International Law
  1 February 2018
  University of Exeter
  Women Practitioners in International Law
  Exeter, UK
  Speaking Engagements
• ‘Careers in International Law’ and ‘International Courts and Tribunals’
  8 December 2017
  Leiden University
  Leiden University lecture series
  Leiden, The Netherlands
  Speaking Engagements
• Exploring Grievance Mechanisms: Lessons from Transitional Justice
  27-29 November 2017
  Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
  2017 United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights
  Geneva, Switzerland
  Speaking Engagements
• Corruption as a New PIL Norm
  16 November 2017
  Oxford University
  Oxford PIL Discussion Group
  Oxford, England
  Speaker: Samantha J. Rowe
  Speaking Engagements
• International Investment Law & the Law of Armed Conflict
  5-6 October 2017
  Athens PIL of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Faculty of Law (Greece); the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS); the Research Centre on Procurement Law and International Investment (CREDIMI) of the University of Burgund
  Colloquium on International Investment Law & the Law of Armed Conflict
  Athens, Greece
  Speaking Engagements
• The UN Dynamic and Political Constraints
  17 July 2017
  British Institute for International and Comparative Law and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
  International Criminal Justice Achievements and Challenges in Syria and Beyond
  London, UK
  Speaker: Catherine Amirfar
  Speaking Engagements
• Welcome Speech
  16 March 2017
  Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
  Debevoise & Plimpton Young Public International Law Group Event
  London, UK
  Speaker: Lord Goldsmith KC
  Speaking Engagements
• An Insight into Careers in Public International Law
  18 January 2017
  British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)
  BIICL Evening Seminar
  London, UK
  Speaking Engagements
• Mining and Human Rights
  20 July 2016
  Mongolian Bar Association
  27th Presidents of Law Associations of Asia Summit 2016
  Paris, France
  Speaker: David W. Rivkin
  Speaking Engagements
• Complications of Pluralism - the Role of Public Law Notions of Proportionality in Investment Arbitration and in Contemporary Treaty Practice
  30 June 2016
  British Institute of International and Comparative Law
  Dialogues between International and Public Law
  London, UK
  Speaker: Aimee-Jane Lee
  Speaking Engagements
• The Role of Public Law Notions of Proportionality in Investment Arbitration and in Contemporary Treaty Practice
  30 June 2016
  British Institute of International and Comparative Law
  Dialogues between International and Public Law
  London, UK
  Speaker: Aimee-Jane Lee
  Speaking Engagements
• W(h)ither ICSID jurisdiction
  18 April 2016
  Quadrant Chambers
  Quadrant Chambers Seminar
  London, UK
  Speaker: Aimee-Jane Lee
  Speaking Engagements
• Has the time come for the establishment of a permanent investment court?
  14 January 2016
  Allen & Overy
  The Allen & Overy Public International Law Debate
  London, UK
  Speaking Engagements
• Opening Address
  9 December 2015
  International Bar Association and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
  The Judicial Integrity Initiative: The Judicial System and Corruption
  London, UK
  Speaker: David W. Rivkin
  Speaking Engagements
• Introduction to IBA Task Force on Climate Change Justice and Human Rights and the Importance of Accessible and Enforceable Dispute Resolution Mechanism Frameworks
  7 December 2015
  ICC, IBA, PCA & SCC
  COP21 Climate Change Related Disputes: A Role for International Arbitration and ADR
  Paris, France
  Speaker: David W. Rivkin
  Speaking Engagements
• The Latest Judicial, Legal and Policy Developments in Achieving Justice and Human Rights in an Era of Climate Disruption
  7 October 2015
  International Bar Association
  IBA Annual Conference
  Vienna, Austria
  Speaking Engagements
• IBA's Climate Change and Human Rights Report
  3 September 2015
  Legal Sustainability Alliance
  Annual Meeting of Executive Firms
  London
  Speaking Engagements
• Disputes with States: Policies, Politics and the Rule of Law
  30 April 2015
  Oxford University / Oxford University Press / International Law Association
  Public International Law Discussion Group in conjunction with Oxford University Press and ILA
  The Oxford Martin School Lecture Theatre
  Speaking Engagements