Making the most of international investment agreements : a common agenda : symposium co-organised by ICSID, OECD and UNCTAD, 12 December 2005, Paris

sess. 1. Investor-State dispute settlement - balancing investor's rights and public / chair, Manfred Schekulin
A decade of increasing awareness in investment arbitration and intensive activity : an assessment / Christoph Schreuer
Defining investment and investor: who is entitled to claim?
Contractual claims and claims under investment treaties: the umbrella clause at test / Emmanuel Gaillard
Parallel and multiple proceedings: how to measure the risk of inconsistent decisions / Giorgio Sacerdoti
Fair and equitable treatment: an evolving standard? / Dan Price ; Indirect expropriation: is the right to regulate at risk? / Jan Paulsson
Most-favoured nation standard (MFN): what are its limits? / Horacio Grigera Naon
National treatment: new developments / Rudolf Dolzer
An NGO perspective / Dan Magraw
sess. 2. Investor-State dispute settlement - improving the system / Chair, Robero Dañino
The case of additional transparency and third party participation in investor-State disputes / Meg Kinnear
Is consolidation of claims a step to improvement? / Liuis Alberto Gonzalez García
Is enforcement of arbitral awards an issue for consideration and improvement? The case of Pakistan / Makhdoom Ali Khan
The case of China / Chen An
The New York Convention in action / Jernej Sekolec
sess. 3. Ways to move forward / Chair, James Zhan
Technical assistance and capacity building, lessons learned from experiences and the way forward / Rohan Perera
How do relevant international organisations contribute to capacity building?: the way forward / Anne-Marie Whitesell, Anna Joubin-Bret, Wesley Scholz.