Professor Wenhua SHAN, Dean of XJTU School of Law, was invited to attend the Ministerial Session of the 24th Meeting of the Energy Charter Conference recently.

The Ministerial Session of the 24th Meeting of the Energy Charter Conference was held in Nicosia, Cyprus on 5-6 December, 2013. This important event was attended by the Ministers from the member states of the ECT, the principals of relative international organizations and some personages from academia and industry. The Ministerial Session concentrated on the first fifteen years of practice and theory of energy investment promotion and protection under the ECT, with a special focus on investment arbitration. Professor SHAN made a presentation entitled "A Matrix Analytical Framework for ISDS Reform" at the Meeting.

Before the attendance of the Ministerial Session of the 24th Meeting of the Energy Charter Conference, Professor SHAN was also present at the meeting on "Anatomy of the Invisible EU Model BIT" in Vienna and delivered a keynote speech entitled "Market Access Provisions in the Potential EU Model BIT". He pointed out that the BITs signed lately by economic powers, such as US, EU, China, Japan and India, have been increasingly becoming consistent with each others, which indicates the gradual formation of the global “BIT2.0”and lays a solid foundation for the negotiation on Global MIT.