Tony Cole

Senior Lecturer

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.

Tony serves as the Law School's Work Placement (Law Clinics) Co-ordinator

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

PhD Supervision

International investment law
International arbitration

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

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

(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

(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.