Tony Cole
Contact Details
Senior Lecturer
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Elliott Jaques Room 009h Brunel University Uxbridge UB8 3PH United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)1895 265498 Fax: +44 (0)1895 269875 Email: tony.cole@brunel.ac.uk |
Related News
Tony Cole invited to provide expert input into United Nations publication - 07 Mar 2013
Tony Cole was invited by the International Investment Agreements Section of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to provide feedback on the draft version of the 2013 Investor-State Dispute Settlement Monitor, discussing the main developments in investor-State arbitration in 2012.Tony Cole Appointed to FDI Moot Advisory Board - 10 Jan 2013
Tony Cole has been appointed to serve a three-year term on the Advisory Board of the Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot (http://www.fdimoot.org/board.php), alongside leading international arbitrators and practitioners.Tony Cole heads team that develops moot problem for 2012 Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot, Boston, USA - 12 Nov 2012
On November 1-4, the 2012 Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot was held in Boston, MA. The moot problem used in the competition was developed by a team headed by Tony Cole. For more information, see http://www.fdimoot.org.Tony Cole co-moderating on online symposium on mass claims in international international investment arbitration - 16 Jul 2012
From July 16-30 Tony Cole will be co-moderating an online symposium on mass claims in international investment arbitration. Participants will be Stacie Strong (Missouri), Veijo Heiskanen (Lalive), Karen Cross (John Marshall), Deborah Hensler (Stanford), and Cymie Payne (Rutgers).Tony Cole invited to comment on Argentine expropriation by New Statesman - 24 Apr 2012
Tony Cole was invited by the New Statesman to comment on the legal status of Argentina's expropriation of 51% of the shares of the formerly State-owned oil company YPF, and on the ability of its former majority shareholder, Repsol, to gain full compensation through international arbitration.Summary
Qualifications
Tony specialises in international arbitration and international investment law, but also works in issues in public international law, the history of legal theory, and comparative law. Prior to coming to coming to Brunel he taught from 2007-2011 at the University of Warwick, following working as an Associate in the litigation department and the international commercial arbitration group at White & Case in New York. He received his J.D. from the University of Michigan, where he served as an editor of the Michigan Journal of International Law. He also studied law as a visiting student at the European University Institute. While at Michigan he spent one summer as a Peggy Browning Fund fellow, practising union-side labour law at the Chicago Newspaper Guild. Prior to entering law school he studied philosophy as a Presidential Fellow at the University of Virginia, teaching at both the Virginia Military Institute and the University of Virginia. He received his undergraduate degree from St. John's College (MD).
Tony has published articles in a variety of leading international journals and been invited to present his work in several countries
He authors a blog on which he comments on recently published articles in arbitration and investment law: http://arbitrationandinvestmentlaw.wordpress.com/
Papers and abstracts are available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=581407
Tony would welcome inquiries from potential research students interested in writing on international arbitration or international investment law.Student Support
Tony serves as the Law School's Induction programme Leader & Associate Skills Tutor
Teaching and Research
Teaching
Contract Law
International Commercial Arbitration
International Labour Law
International Law
Public International Law
Research Interests
Structural foundations of international investment arbitration
Operaton of Most-Favoured Nation clauses in international law
Theory of transnational law
International diffusion of patent-covered intellectual property
History of Jurisprudence
Comparative Law
Research Areas
Arbitration and alternative dispute resolution
Comparative law
International economic law
Legal theory and jurisprudence
Public international law
Research Groups
CIPL Centre for International and Public Law
BCSACBI Brunel Centre for the Study of Arbitration and Cross-Border Investment
PhD Supervision
International investment law
International arbitration
External Activities
External Activities
Forthcoming Invited Presentations of Research:
2011 Association of American Law Schools (Dispute Resolution Division) Works-in-Progress Conference, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, November 4-5, 2011
FT MIGA Summit: Managing Global Political Risk: Old Risks, New Moment, London, UK, December 8, 2011
Arbitration in the Middle East, Amman, Jordan, Winter 2012
Associate Editorial Board, Transnational Dispute Management
Chair of the drafting committee, 2012 Foreign Direct Investment International Moot Competition
"The Parol Evidence Rule: A Comparative Analysis and Proposal", cited in Flint Hill Properties L.P. v. Valley Bronze of Oregon, Inc. (D. Kan. 2007)
Journal Peer Reviewing: Leiden Journal of International Law
Book Proposal Reviewing: Palgrave-Macmillan; Routledge-Cavendish
Symposia and Workshops Organised:
The Role of Social Norms in Building a Low Carbon Society (in cooperation with Kai Spiekermann and Dan Priel), July 2009
Diversity or Cacophony: New Sources of Norms in International Law, University of Michigan Law School, March 19-20, 2004
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(2012) Cole, A., The Boundaries of Most-Favored Nation Treatment in International Investment Law, Michigan Journal of International Law 33 (3)
(2011) Buchanan, A., Cole, T. and Keohane, RO., Justice in the Diffusion of Innovation, JOURNAL OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 19 (3) : 306- 332 Download publication
(2011) Cole, T. and Vaksha, AK., Power-Conferring Treaties: The Meaning of 'Investment' in the ICSID Convention, LEIDEN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 24 (2) : 305- 330 Download publication
(2010) Cole, A., Authority and Contemporary International Arbitration, Louisiana Law Review: promoting legal scholarship in the community 70 (3) : 801- 857
(2007) Cole, A., Commercial Arbitration in Japan: Contributions to the Debate on Japanese 'Non-Litigiousness', New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 40 29-
(2005) Cole, A., The Committee of the Regions and Subnational Representation to the European Union, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 49-
(2003) Cole, A., Labor Standards and the Generalized System of Preferences: The European Labor Incentives, Michigan Journal of International Law 25 179-
(2003) Cole, A., Scalia and the Institutional Approach to Law, University of Toledo Law Review 34 559-
(2003) Cole, A., The Parol Evidence Rule: A Comparative Analysis and Proposal, University of New South Wales Law Journal 26 (3) : 680-
Books
(2012) Cole, A., The Structure of Investment Arbitration.
