On 21 June 2019, the first Expert Meeting of the State Consent to International Jurisdiction will take place in Geneva, in cooperation with the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement (CIDS). At this expert meeting, the team will present a progress report on the project as well as three draft papers, and invite comments from the participating experts. These experts will come from several research centres and institutions in Geneva (such as the Graduate Institute, CIDS, the University of Geneva, the World Trade Organization and the law firm Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler) and beyond (the African Court of Human and People's Rights, the International Criminal Court, Brandeis University, Minnesota University , Edinburgh University, Hebrew University and Oslo University).
| 10.00 – 11.00 | State consent to international jurisdiction – Evaluating the project structure, objectives and next steps |
| 11.00 – 11.20 | Coffee break |
| 11.20 – 12.20 | Paper 1: State consent to the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice: modify or perish (Freya Baetens) |
| 12.20 – 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 – 14.30 | Paper 2: Interim obligations under Article 18 of the VCLT and the ICC Statute (Emma Brandon) |
| 14.30 – 14.50 | Coffee Break |
| 14.50 – 15.50 | Paper 3: The murky waters of jurisdiction and applicable law in international economic disputes (Nicola Strain) |
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This event is closed to the public.