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Publications, speaking engagements and teaching

on arbitration, energy and international law.

Publications

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Revue de l’Arbitrage, n°3, contribution with C.Debourg, L.Fadlallah and B.Zajdela to the working group of the CFA. · 1 nov. 2025

La sentence arbitrale

02

Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, 2021

Climate change in international arbitration, the next big thing?

03

Chapter 9, Swiss Arbitration Association, ASA Special Series 48, Wolters Kluwer, 2021

The View From the French Courts: Disclosures – Objections – Challenges: Clear Path or Jungle in Commercial Arbitrators’ Conflicts of Interest?

04

Arbitration International, 2020 (with M. Menjucq)

The Grapes of dispute resolution: arbitration and wine

05

Revue de l'Arbitrage, No. 3 2017

l'Annulation en France des Sentences Arbitrales Rendues sur le Fondement de Traités d'Investissement

06

Pratt's Energy Law Report, Lexus Notes, November 2017

Supply Chain Disruption and Litigation Trends in North Africa's Oil and Gas Industry

07

Arbitration International, 2015

Jurisdiction and admissibility: are we any closer to a line in the sand?

08

La Revue des Juristes de Sciences Po, 2012

Quelle flexibilité pour le contrôle des sentences CIRDI ?

09

in Energy Dispute Resolution: Investment Protection, Transit and the Energy Charter Treaty", Juris Publishing 2011 (with M. Polkinghorne)

Provisional Application of the Energy Charter Treaty: The Conundrum

10

Anuario Latinoamericano de Arbitraje, n°1, 2011

Anulación de los laudos CIADI - Variables de ajuste y margen de maniobra de los Comités ad hoc

11

Journal Africain de Droit et Affaires, 2011

L'arbitrage d'investissement en Afrique sub-saharienne

12

Rivista dell Arbitrato (No. 2, 2010)

I meccanismi di soluzione delle controversie nel quadro del trattato sulla carta dell "energia

13

Article on waiver rules in international arbitration with reference to three decisions of the Paris Court of Appeal, Revue de l'arbitrage 2009, Vol. 4 p774.

14

in "Investment Arbitration and the Energy Charter Treaty", Juris Publishing 2006

The dispute settlement mechanisms of the Energy Charter Treaty

15

in International Arbitration Law Review, September and December 2005

The first investment treaty arbitration award before the English court - the Republic of Ecuador v Occidental Exploration and Production Company

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in International Chamber of Commerce Members' Handbook 48 (UK ed., 2003) (with G. Coop)

Arbitration and pricing mechanisms in international gas sales contracts

17

International Energy Law and Taxation Review n° 287 (No. 10, Oct. 2003) (with G. Coop and H. Trischmann)

Legal issues for international oil & gas companies in Iraq: past, present and future

18

Investment Treaty Law IV, BIILC

Article 27 of the Energy Charter Treaty: what role for state-to-state arbitration under the ECT?

Conferences and speaking engagements

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Co-moderator for a working session at the 28th Annual ITA Workshop held in Dallas on 17 June 2016

03

Speaker at the International Conference on Commercial Arbitration in Ulaanbaatar on "Best Practices in International Arbitration" on 27 March 2014. The conference was co-organized by the Ministry of Justice of Mongolia, USAID and the American Chamber of Commerce of Mongolia.

04

Chair of the conference "Taking of oral evidence in international arbitration", organised by the Milan Chamber of Arbitration on 21 February 2013

05

Speaker at the "Energy Dispute Resolution: Investment Protection, Transit and the Energy Charter Treaty conference" in Stockholm on 10 June 2011 on "Energy Security in Europe and Russia"

06

Chairman of the panel "ICISD's Problem with Annulment Proceedings" at the conference of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law "Why Still ICSID?" in London on 3 November 2011

07

Speaker at the "Energy sector and Projects" seminar in Paris on "International investment arbitration as a tool to protect international energy investments" on 19 October 2010

08

Speaker at the "Energy Dispute Resolution: Investment Protection, Transit and the Energy Charter Treaty conference" in Brussels on 23 October 2009 on "The provisional application of the Energy Charter Treaty".

09

Speaker at the BIICL conference held in London on 18 September 2008 on article 27 of the Energy Charter Treaty

Teaching

Lectures on arbitration at Panthéon-Sorbonne and Sciences Po Paris, including energy arbitration. Speaking and publishing on arbitration, energy and public and private international law.

In the press

Fertiliser investor fails to annul Venezuela award

An ICSID committee declines to annul the dismissal of a US$150 million fertiliser-sector claim against Venezuela.

Global Arbitration Review ·

Fertiliser (Credit: istock.com/weerapatkiatdumrong)

Azpetrol launches ECT claim

Azpetrol’s parent company commences an Energy Charter Treaty arbitration against Azerbaijan.

Global Arbitration Review ·

Photo : Sahrazad · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain