​On February 12, 2015, Meg Kinnear, ICSID Secretary-General, gave the inaugural University of Notre Dame-Hogan Lovells lecture. Her topic was “The Next Generation of Investment Treaties and their Impact on Dispute Settlement”. The speech addressed some of the new approaches taken in recent investment agreements and what they might mean for investor-State arbitration and conciliation in the future. This was followed by comments from a panel consisting of Jonathan Stoel, Partner, Hogan Lovells, Prof. Roger Alford, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame, Prof. Susan Franck, Professor of Law, Washington and Lee Law School, Prof. Horacio Grigera-Naón, Director of the Centre on International Commercial Arbitration, Washington College of Law, and Michael Tracton, Director, Office of Investment Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Each of the panelists addressed a different aspect of investment treaties and dispute settlement. The full presentation can be found here.