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Explores the potential regulatory control by the Chinese government over foreign energy investments.
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Xiaohan Gong is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law, Macau University of Science and Technology, China.Peter D Cameron is Chair of Energy and Climate Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, UK. He is a barrister (England & Wales), and regularly sits as an arbitrator and expert. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.Pieter Bekker holds the Chair in International Law at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee and a Partner and Head of Investment Arbitration at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP. He is Founding Director of the Dundee Ocean and Lake Frontiers Institute and Neutrals (DOLFIN) for research on law and science in determining maritime boundaries. Professor Bekker previously taught as a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School. He obtained basic and doctoral law degrees in Dutch and International Law from Leiden University and a Masters degree from Harvard Law School. A national of the Netherlands, he served as a staff lawyer in the Registry of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). He is an active member of the New York Bar and has served as counsel and advocate in cases before the ICJ, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and arbitral tribunals charged with adjudicating investor-State disputes. Pieter is the author/editor of four books and over 100 articles on international law.Volker Roeben is Professor of International Law and Dean at Durham Law School, UK.Leonie Reins is Professor of Public Law and Sustainability at the Erasmus Law School, Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Prior to that she was an Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society ('TILT') at Tilburg University. Leonie obtained her PhD from KU Leuven, Belgium, where she also worked as a Post-Doc. The monograph based on her dissertation is entitled Regulating Shale Gas - The Challenge of Coherent Environmental and Energy Regulation (2017). Leonie obtained private sector experience whilst working for a Brussels-based environmental law consultancy, providing legal and policy services for public-sector clients such as the European Commission and the European Parliament.
Leonie's research focuses on the intersections of energy and environmental law. She is particularly interested in the regulation of new technologies that are capable of mitigating, or providing means of adaptation to, global problems such as climate change and the associated risks and uncertainty that manifest themselves at the local level. Leonie regularly speaks at international conferences and her works have been published in journals such as
Energy Research & Social Science,
Environmental Liability and
Oil, Gas, Energy Law Intelligence (OGEL).
Crina Baltag is Senior Lecturer in International Arbitration at Stockholm University and a qualified attorney-at-law since 2004, with extensive practice in various aspects of international dispute resolution, private and public international law. Dr Baltag is member of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Institute (SCC) Board and has been appointed in numerous arbitrations, as sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, and CCIR-Romania.
Dr Baltag's publications include
The Energy Charter Treaty: The Notion of Investor [2012];
ICSID Convention after 50 Years: Unsettled Issues [2017];
The Future of Investment Treaty Arbitration in the EU [co-editor, 2020], etc. and numerous publications in leading legal journals and reviews, including on the
Denial of Benefits in Investment Law [co-author;
Max Planck Encyclopaedia of International Procedural Law, 2019].
Dr Baltag is the editor of Kluwer Arbitration Blog, co-managing editor of ITA Arbitration Report and member of editorial boards of prestigious journals in the field, including of the
Journal of International Arbitration. Dr Baltag holds a PhD degree in International Arbitration from Queen Mary University of London (UK), LL.M in International Commercial Arbitration Law from Stockholm University (Sweden), M.Sc. in International Business from Academy of Economic Studies (Romania), and LL.B. from University of Bucharest (Romania).
