This lecture was organised as part of the King's Forum on International Dispute Resolution Lecture Series at The Dickson Poon School of Law

International trade law and international investment law have traditionally been regarded as separate legal fields. This is no longer the case: it is becoming increasingly apparent that the two fields share a number of characteristics. The dispute over plain packaging of cigarettes made clear that tribunals concerned with international trade law and international investment law have to address the question of how much regulatory autonomy governments have under the respective treaty regimes. Finding the proper balance between liberalizing trade and promoting investment on one hand and providing governments the required regulatory autonomy while limiting abuse on the other, is an important task for international economic law in the future. This project uses the experience of international trade law as a matrix for a potential future development of international investment law and shows how the parallel though temporally shifted development is important for states in that they are more easily able to predict the viability of future regulatory decisions.

Professor Markus Wagner joined Warwick Law School in 2016 from the University of Miami. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Giessen in 2002 and a master's degree in international law in 2005. From 2002 to 2005, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, during which time he also served as legal counsel for the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York. In 2006, he graduated from Stanford Law School with an LL.M. degree. Professor Wagner subsequently clerked for then-President of the Supreme Court of Israel Aharon Barak and starting in 2007 worked for the Brussels office of WilmerHale.

Professor Wagner currently serves as the Associate Editor for the Journal of World Investment and Trade (JWIT) and sits on the advisory boards of the International Journal of Law in Context and Göttingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL). In addition, he is Secretary of the Executive Council of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) and a past co-chair of the Junior International Law Scholars Association (JILSA). Professor Wagner has advised international organizations and has presented at academic conferences in the areas of autonomous weapons under international law and international economic law. He was recently appointed as Visiting Research Fellow at the Mandela Institute at the Oliver Schreiner School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He has held visiting professor positions at the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogota, the Universidad Los Andes in Bogota, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and Public International Law in Heidelberg, the Center for Teaching and Research of WTO Disputes at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing and the law faculties at the University of New South Wales in Sidney, the University of Leipzig, the University of Hamburg and the Fundacao Getulio Vargas in Sao Paulo.

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