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Oliver Hailes

@ohailes.bsky.social
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International law and arbitration // energy, investment, and environmental law Assistant Professor @lselaw.bsky.social

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🔥⚖️🌐final countdown to a historic moment for #ClimateJustice: in a few minutes, InterAmerican Court of Human Rights will deliver landmark authoritative judicial opinion on States' climate obligations #AOLetsGo #OpiniónConsultiva 🧵key elements of context & analysis in thread👇
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Trade Justice Movement @tradejusticemov.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The UK officially withdrew from the #ECT yesterday, but fossil fuel companies could still sue the gov for 20 years under its "sunset clause." New legal advice shows a way out with an inter se agreement to block future #ISDS claims. tjm.org.uk/uk-can-act-t... @globaljusticenow.bsky.social
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UK can act to block fossil fuel investors from suing over Energy Charter Treaty, new legal opinion finds « Trade Justice Movement
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British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) @biicl.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Investment Treaty Forum “Geopolitics and International Investment Law” 25 April Panel 2. Coercion, Sanctions and ISDS Dr Claudia Annacker, Annacker International Disputes Dr Oliver Hailes LSE @ohailes.bsky.social Joaquin Terceño, Eversheds Sutherland Shreyas Jayasimha, Aarna Law buff.ly/NjgLnGH
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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Trump’s Coercion of America’s Allies: Part II | by Marko Milanovic
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Trump’s Coercion of America’s Allies: Part II
In a previous post, written before Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States, I wrote about the various measures – particularly those targeting America’s allies – that he threatene...
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Julia Dehm @juliadehm.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Warm welcome to join a new reading group on "Making and Unmaking Natural Resources" convened by Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social and myself. 10am AEDT Tuesdays fortnightly from 11 March 2025, via Zoom (with winter break), email for link and readings! lawecologypolitics.com/making-and-u...
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Oliver Hailes @ohailes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Pleased to join senior scholars and practitioners @biicl.bsky.social. My intervention revisits the treaty rules on coercion and jus cogens, in light of developments re peoples' rights over natural resources (ICJ, CJEU), with an eye to a Ukraine-US minerals deal and related issues for arbitration.
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Join us on Wednesday 5-6:30pm @lselaw.bsky.social for a panel w/ King Okpabi—leader of the Ogale community from the Niger Delta—about the ongoing #Shell trial w/ Zoe Johannes (Leigh Day), @markdummett.bsky.social (Amnesty International) & Zainab Rahim (RAID) Register: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
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Mona Paulsen @monapaulsen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
OK, let me start over. Check the America First Investment Policy released this week. What stood out? I found the prose muddled and riddled with rhetoric, making it difficult to parse policy implementation. But let me do a better service and go through it. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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America First Investment Policy
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY         THE SECRETARY OF STATE         THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE         THE ATTORNEY GENERAL         THE
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
"Consumption of coal is now on track to rise to a new peak of 8.77bn tonnes by the end of the year – and could remain at near-record levels until 2027." www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Coal use to reach new peak – and remain at near-record levels for years
Spike in fossil fuel use a result of global gas crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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Joshua Paine @jpaine.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I have a new long article out in International & Comparative Law Quarterly on ‘Control Mechanisms in Multilateral Investment Tribunals: Navigating Procedural Multilateralism and Substantive Bilateralism’ (open access) doi.org/10.1017/S002... Short 🧵based on the asbtract /1
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CONTROL MECHANISMS IN MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT TRIBUNALS: NAVIGATING PROCEDURAL MULTILATERALISM AND SUBSTANTIVE BILATERALISM | International & Comparative Law Quarterly | Cambridge Core
CONTROL MECHANISMS IN MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT TRIBUNALS: NAVIGATING PROCEDURAL MULTILATERALISM AND SUBSTANTIVE BILATERALISM - Volume 73 Issue 4
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Dr Yusra Suedi @yusrasuedi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The African Court of Human & Peoples’ Rights Ligue Ivorienne des Droits de L’Homme and Others v. Cote D’Ivoire judgment is huge for its developments on corporate accountability for human rights violations. Read our thoughts in the American Journal of Intl Law: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Ligue Ivorienne des Droits de L’Homme and Others v. Cote D’Ivoire. App. No. 041/2016 | American Journal of International Law | Cambridge Core
Ligue Ivorienne des Droits de L’Homme and Others v. Cote D’Ivoire. App. No. 041/2016 - Volume 118 Issue 4
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
3/ 🛢️ ⛽️ Judge Cleveland (🇺🇸) questioned the participants regarding States’ legal obligations under international law with regard to fossil fuels production under their jurisdiction.
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Interested in global political economy of the energy transition? Brilliant conversation between @brettchristophers.bsky.social and Adam Tooze, moderated by @katearonoff.bsky.social in NY Our @thepolycrisis.bsky.social Dispatch buttondown.com/polycrisisdi... Youtube: youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
18/🔥🇸🇱SierraLeone joins 🇦🇱Albania & 🇨🇲Cameroon in urging 🇺🇳Court to affirm that States enjoy margin of appreciation in regulating, in the public interest, private actors within its jurisdiction & shld not be subject to spurious claims by foreign investors. #ISDS
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
📌 #AOLetsGo: Ongoing today: #ClimateJustice hearings at⚖️🇺🇳 International Court of Justice - a historical moment 🧵live thread below with summaries of key arguments, context & relevant links ⬇️ 🎙️Hear from Pacific Islands Student Fighting Climate Change's Vishal Prasad setting the stage. A 🧵👇
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Devika Hovell @dchovell.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I am delighted to announce that LSE Law School is again offering the opportunity to our graduates and current LLM and PhD students to undertake a judicial fellowship at the International Court of Justice in 2025/2026. Application deadline is 15 January 2025 www.lse.ac.uk/law/news/202...
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LSE invites applications for ICJ Judicial Fellowship Programme 2025-2026
LSE invites applications for ICJ Judicial Fellowship Programme 2025-2026
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Justina Uriburu @justinauriburu.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I am very much looking forward to discussing my research at the LSE’s PIL Hub Seminar this Thursday. If you are around and keen to attend, drop by or message me!
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PIL Hub Seminar: Missing Pieces of Peace: A History of International Dispute Settlement (The Pill Hub seminar's start time has been updated. It will now take place from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM) - LSE Law S...
The PIL hub lunch-time seminar series aims to provide an opportunity to discuss and debate leading research on contemporary, theoretical and historical issues of international law.   Speaker: Justina ...
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
2/12 Next up is another review article by @ohailes.bsky.social (LSE), "Putting to Work the Uncanny: Historical Argument in International Economic Law", which also includes a discussion on Orford & "Globalists" by @zeithistoriker.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The cover of Orford's book againThe cover of "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism" by Quinn Slobodian
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