Tomoko Ishikawa is a Professor at Nagoya University in Japan. She has served as an ICSID Conciliator, appointed by the Chairman of the Administrative Council (2017-2023), a member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Energy Charter Treaty, an arbitrator at Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration, and a mediator at the Kyoto International Mediation Centre. Her professional experiences include serving as an Associate Judge at Tokyo District Court and holding the position of Deputy Director at the International Legal Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, where she worked on bilateral/trilateral investment treaties, Free Trade Agreements, and WTO dispute settlement.

Lénárd Sándor is the Head of the School of Law and of the Center for International Law at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, he is an Associate Professor of Law and the Head of the Barna Horváth Hungary Law and Liberty Circle. He previously served at the Office of the Attorney General and later on as a chief counsel at the Constitutional Court of Hungary in Budapest and as an advisor at the European Parliament in Brussels where his focus was on constitutional affairs of the European cooperation. He was a visiting researcher at the Federal Judicial Center (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.), the research and education agency of the judicial branch of the U.S. government.

 

Speaker: Tomoko Ishikawa Professor of Law, Nagoya University, Japan