Date: 13.04.203
Timing: 05:00 P.M to 06:00 P.M
Professor Steffen Hindelang
Steffen Hindelang is professor of international investment and trade law at Uppsala University in Sweden. He teaches and researches in the areas of international economic law, esp. international investment law, arbitration, and investment security, EU law and German public law. He is also co-founder and director of the CELIS Institute, the leading forum for studying and debating investment screening policy in Europe and beyond.
Steffen is adjunct faculty at Technical University Berlin and senior fellow at the Walter Hallstein Institute of European Constitutional Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and academic advisor to the International Investment Law Centre Cologne (IILCC). Previously, he was guest professor at, among others, the University of Uppsala as a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond â Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Swedish Prize Laureate, at Nagoya University, Bocconi University Milan, the University of Lausanne, the Charles University Prague, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), and the Turkish-German University Istanbul.
Steffenâs recent publications include Triangulating Freedom of Speech (Springer, 2022, ed., with A Moberg), A Common European Law on Investment Screening (Springer, 2020, ed., with A Moberg), Freiheit und Kommunikation: Zur verfassungsrechtlichen Sicherung kommunikativer Selbstbestimmung in einer vernetzten Gesellschaft (Freedom and Communication: On the Constitutional Safeguarding of Communicative Self-Determination in a Networked Society) (Springer, 2019), and Shifting Paradigms in International Investment Law: More Balanced, Less Isolated, Increasingly Diversified (OUP, 2016, ed., with M Krajewski). He is also co-editor-in-chief of the Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions (Springer).
Steffen has advised, inter alia, European governments and businesses on EU and German investment screening regulations as well as in international investment disputes and international organisations, such as UNCTAD, on matters of reform of the current international investment law regime. He was repeatedly invited by the European Parliamentâs INTA Committee to prepare studies on the evolvement of the EU Common Commercial Policy in the area of investment. Steffen has served as legal expert in support of the Kingdom of Spain in several ICSID, PCA, and SCC arbitrations, Green Power and Portigon among them, where the intra-EU objection was first accepted in full and in part respectively, as well as in numerous US Court proceedings in Novenergia, Eiser, Antin, Masdar, and others. In the Swedish Supreme Court, he acted as expert in support of the Republic of Poland in PL Holdings. He assisted the Republic of Croatia before German courts in obtaining an interim injunction against investment arbitration proceedings. He has acted as ICSID arbitrator and serves at the ICSID Panel of Conciliators designated by the Federal Republic of Germany for the term 2019-2025 and the List of European Union Candidates Suitable for Appointment as Arbitrators and TSD Experts.
Steffen studied law at the Universities of Bayreuth and Marburg. He holds a doctorate in law from the University of TĂźbingen, a habilitation in law from the Humboldt University of Berlin and is fully qualified to practise as a judge and attorney-at-law in Germany.
Steffen Hindelang is currently professor of international investment and trade law at Uppsala University in Sweden. He teaches and researches in the areas of international economic law, esp. international investment law, arbitration, and investment security, EU law and German public law. He is also adjunct faculty at Technical University Berlin. He is senior fellow at the Walter Hallstein Institute of European Constitutional Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and academic advisor to the International Investment Law Centre Cologne (IILCC).
Furthermore, he has advised, inter alia, European governments and businesses on EU and German investment screening regulations as well as in international investment disputes and international organisations, such as UNCTAD, on matters of reform of the current international investment law regime. He was repeatedly invited by the European Parliamentâs INTA Committee to prepare studies on the evolvement of the EU Common Commercial Policy in the area of investment. Steffen was also involved as expert advisor in the Achmea proceedings, in particular in the German courts, and has served as legal expert in support of the Kingdom of Spain in several ICSID, PCA, and SCC arbitrations, Green Power and Portigon among them, where the intra-EU objection was first accepted in full and in part respectively, as well as in numerous US Court proceedings in Novenergia, Eiser, Antin, Masdar, and others. In the Swedish Supreme Court, he acted as expert in suppot of the Republic of Poland in PL Holdings. He assisted the Republic of Croatia before German courts in obtaining an interim injunction against investment arbitration proceedings. He has acted as ICSID arbitrator and serves at the ICSID Panel of Conciliators designated by the Federal Republic of Germany for the term 2019-2025 and the List of European Union Candidates Suitable for Appointment as Arbitrators and TSD Experts.