As the Working Group proceeds to consider provisions on an appellate mechanism, this side event, organised by the Academic Forum on ISDS, will focus on the costs and benefits of the different design options of an appellate mechanism for investment disputes. The event will assess both fundamental design options, such as ad hoc appeal, a standing appellate mechanism, appeal as the second instance of a two-tiered multilateral court, as well as different options of regulating the relationship between the initial proceeding and the appeal, such as the question of whether to remand or not.
Panellists: Ana María Daza Vargas (University of Edinburgh) (moderator), Chiara Giorgetti (Richmond University), Danni Liang (Sun Yat-Sen University), Michele Potestà (Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler & IHEID), and Catharine Titi (French National Centre for Scientific Research & CERSA, University Paris-Panthéon-Assas).