Rethinking the relevance of customary international law to issues of nationality in investment treaty arbitration / Javier García Olmedo -- Investment claims and annexation of territory : where general international law and investment law collide / Sebastian Wuschka -- General exception clauses in international investment agreements: a case for systemic integration? / Tobias Ackermann -- International norms, a defense in investment treaty arbitration? / Dafina Atanasova -- Towards a new regulatory paradigm under recent fta investment chapters? / Elsa Sardinha -- Let's get it right : a comparative law approach as a technique for solving conflicts between EU law and investment arbitration / Blerina Xheraj -- The energy charter treaty and European Union law : mutually supportive instruments for economic cooperation or schizophrenia in the "acquis" / Cees Verburg -- The structural need for intra-EU bit protection / Emily Sipiorski -- Is one permanent instance enough? : a comparison between the WTO appellate body and the proposed investment court system / Marcus Weiler -- The appropriate use of bifurcation as a means for increasing efficiency in investment arbitration / Jola Gjuzi -- Effective management of mass claims arbitration : what could be learnt from international tribunals? / Katarzyna Szczudlik -- The impact of the economic and political situation prevailing in the host state on compensation under international investment law / Sven Lange -- The impact of third party funding on an ICSID tribunal's decision on security for costs / Alexander Hoffmann -- Rationalising costs in international arbitration : a tall order? / speech by Neil Kaplan QC CBE SBS.