Please RSVP here to join us and the European Legal Studies Center for a talk about international dispute settlement with Mislav Mataija, a member of the Legal Service of the European Commission, WTO & Trade Policy Team, and a visiting professor at Sciences Po School of Public Affairs, Paris.
The European Court of justice has a long history of engaging with other dispute settlement bodies - international courts, arbitrations, and others - whose competences overlap or otherwise come into contact with its own. In particular, the Court has been quite cautious when examining the legality, under EU law, of dispute settlement mechanisms in treaties negotiated by the EU, in the name of the "autonomy" of the EU legal order. Among the recent targets of this scrutiny are the EU's accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (Opinion 2/13) and investor-State arbitration in intra-EU bilateral investment treaties (Achmea). A forthcoming decision will examine whether a modernized version of investor-State dispute settlement in CETA, an EU-wide trade and investment agreement, will suffer the same fate. This talk will examine the major legal issues underlying the Court's engagement with other international dispute settlement fora.
Lunch will be served.
