Feb. 25th, 2016. Prof. Vaccaro-Incisa has been invited to participate to the next meeting of Experts on International Investment Agreements organized by the United Nations Commission for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), held at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, on Mar. 16th-17th.

The Firm is pleased to note that Prof. Vaccaro-Incisa’s participation has been greeted by UNCTAD with the following words:

“Your participation will greatly contribute to the debate exploring how IIA reform is being undertaken at all levels of policymaking and what can be done to effectively reform international investment governance in line with today’s sustainable development imperative.”

Prof. Vaccaro-Incisa will participate as faculty member of IESEG School of Management.

Mar. 2016. The book Legal Risks in EU Law, published by Springer (ISBN 3319285955), has been released. The contributors are all members of the Global Legal Networks of jurists. Flowing from the research initially presented at the C3RD conference of Oct. 2014, Prof. Vaccaro-Incisa authored the chapter on “Protection of Foreign Investment and the EU: Framework, Legal Risks, and First Fruits”.

Jan. 4th, 2016. The Firm is proud to announce that Dr. Vaccaro-Incisa has been appointed Assistant Professor of International Law, and permanent faculty member, at IESEG School of Management, in Paris, world-top 20 institution in its category and among France’s best and most appreciated schools. He will join IESEG on Feb. 1st, 2016.

While retaining his practice of law on selected international legal issues, and carrying out the academic research in the domains of public international law and international investment law, Dr. Vaccaro-Incisa will contribute to the establishment of the Double Degree in International Business Law, that will be inaugurated in Sept. 2016.

Between July and September, 2015, Dr. Vaccaro-Incisa will be Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).

He will work with Prof. Raúl Vinuesa and Prof. Silvina Gonzalez Napolitano. Professor Vinuesa, the most respected Argentine arbitrator in the field of international investment law, is Professor of Public International Law and Director of the Degree in International Law at UBA. Professor Gonzalez Napolitano is Professor of Public International Law at UBA, and Member of the Argentine State Prosecutor Office on international investment law matters and cases.

During his permanence, Dr. Vaccaro-Incisa will deliver two seminars: first, the evolution of the regime for the protection of foreign investment in the three principal investment areas (EU, US, PRC); second, an alternative legal rationale for the Crimean transfer, from Ukraine to Russia.