Sophie Nappert

On 12 June 2018, Sophie delivered the 2018 Proskauer Lecture in International Arbitration on the topic of Disruption is the new Black: Thoughts for Keeping International Arbitration On Trend.
On 23 February 2018, Sophie delivered the keynote address on Algocracy in International Arbitration at the Annual Conference of the Centro Español de Arbitraje, Belgian Chapter, Brussels.
On 8 November 2017, she delivered a special address on The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on International Arbitration at the Asia-Pacific ADR Conference, Seoul.
On 20 September 2017, she delivered a key note address on Change Through Innovation in International Dispute Resolution at the DIS Annual Autumn Conference, Berlin.
On 26 November 2015 she delivered the Inaugural EFILA Annual Lecture on International Investment Arbitration: Escaping from Freedom? The Dilemma of an Improved ISDS, available at https://efilablog.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/efila-annual-lecture-sophi... 27-11-2015.pdf
The Lecture won the 2016 Global Arbitration Review Award for Best Speech, and Sophie was the first female winner of the award.
Sophie has authored a Commentary on the 2010 UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules: A Practitioner’s Guide, Juris, 2012. She publishes regularly in peer-reviewed legal journals and trade publications.
Recent and forthcoming publications:
• “Arbitration as a tool for Global Governance: The Use (and Abuse) of Discretion” in The Oxford Handbook of International Economic Governance (forthcoming).
• “The Practitioner’s Perspective on Technology in International Arbitration”, in C Aschauer and M Piers, eds, The Role of Technology and the Internet in International Arbitration, Cambridge University Press (2017), with Paul Cohen.
• “Brexit: Implications for the EU Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement”, Practical Law, 2016, with Nikos Lavranos.
• “Russian BITs in the post-ECT landscape after the Yukos Awards”, J Gaitis, ed., The Leading Practitioner's Guide to International Oil & Gas Industry Arbitration, Juris (2015), with Dr Yulia Selivanova.
• “Square Pegs and Round Holes: The Taxation Provision in the Energy Charter Treaty and the Yukos Awards”, Paris Journal of International Arbitration, 2015.
• “The Yukos Awards: A Comment”, Journal of Damages in International Arbitration, 2015.