Please join us at the Herbert Smith Freehills-SMU
Asian Arbitration Lecture on Wednesday, 23 November 2022, 5:00
PM.
This year's lecture will be presented
by Prof. Dr. Diane Desierto on the
subject of “Human Rights, Environmental and Climate
Change Law in the Substance and Procedure of International
Arbitration“.
Inter-State, investor-state and commercial arbitration in recent
years has increasingly wrestled with the complexities of human
rights, environmental, and climate change law and their impact on
the substance and procedure of international arbitration. This
lecture will map all of these affected areas of substance and
procedure for inter-State, investor-State and commercial
arbitration, and conclude with specific normative recommendations
on where international arbitration has to adapt, and where it has
to stay the course, despite (or precisely because of) the
evolutive nature of human rights law, environmental law, and
climate change law and their
