Filip Batselé (Brussels)

Historicum Room K201, Schellingstr. 12, Munich

Colloquium "Europe's History of the Present: Universalism and Particularism"

The KFG colloquium continues with its next session on Wednesday, June 12th, with a lecture by Junior Fellow Filip Batselé on ‘Universalising the Rules of Investment Protection: Making the Eastern Bloc ‘Safe’ for Western European Investment 1976-1999’

Filip Batselé is a legal historian focusing on the history of international economic law and policy, with a focus on Western Europe during the second half of the 20th century. He has a PhD in Laws (2023) from Ghent University and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Double degree). Filip has previously published a monograph (on the law of slavery) with Springer. Over the past few years, he has focused his writing on the historical role of large corporations in international law, as well as international investment protection policy during the Cold War era.

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