CELIS Institute

Foreign Investment Screening | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Control

The CELIS Institute is an independent non-profit, non-partisan research enterprise dedicated to promoting better regulation of foreign investments in the context of security, public order, and competitiveness. It produces expert analysis and fosters a continuous trusting dialogue between policymakers, the investment community, and academics. The CELIS Institute is the leading forum for studying and debating investment screening policy.

The CELIS Institute was set up in 2020 by Professor Steffen Hindelang and Mr. J. Hillebrand Pohl as a permanent successor to the International Conference on a Common European Law on Investment Screening (CELIS), convened by Professor Hindelang and Dr. Andreas Moberg in 2019. A multi-stakeholder initiative, principally funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, CELIS resulted in the very first, interdisciplinary grounded, comprehensive appraisal of EU foreign investment control, published in the inaugural volume of the Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions in 2021 (Springer). The CELIS Institute is headquartered in Berlin.

The Institute also addresses the political and economic aspects of the legal field. Beyond screening, it covers questions relating to investment protection, security, strategy, regulation and facilitation, including dispute settlement.

Steffen Hindelang and J. Hillebrand Pohl | Directors

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Current Calls

Opening: Deputy Director of the CELIS Institute (Research programme and events)

Opening The CELIS Institute seeks a Deputy Director(Research programme and events) This is a unique opportunity for an entrepreneurial-minded, highly motivated, early-to mid-career academic, public servant, or practitioner who is a thought leader in relevant disciplines of law, or law and economics, or law and political science and can see the benefits in combining traditional…
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CELIS Annual Call 2023: CELIS Country Reporter

Annual Call for Expression of Interest 2023  CELIS Country Reporters on Foreign Investment Regulation, especially Investment Screening The CELIS Institute announces the opening of a number of positions as CELIS Country Reporter and CELIS Assistant Country Reporter (m/f/d) which will contribute to the Institute’s Knowledge and Research Hub at www.celis.institute. We are particularly interested in applications from the…
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2022 CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS)

The Emerging Law of Investment Control in Europe:
Screening, Sanctions and Subsidies

#CFIS22 Conference Report and video recordings just published

The CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS) is Europe's first and foremost forum to discuss questions on investment screening and security, which was held in its 4th edition in 2022.

CFIS 22 brought together EU officials, national experts, diplomats, academics, business leaders, think tankers, and representatives of civil society and the media from across Europe and beyond.

The CFIS22 website is available here.

CELIS produces, hosts, and points to various original and third-party content relating to the fields of foreign investment and public order and secruity as well as investment protection and facilitation.

PRISM – Politics and Regulation of Investment Screening Mechanisms newsfeed

Newsfeed of the research project PRISM - Politics and Regulation of Investment Screening Mechanisms, Princeton University and Indiana University Hamilton ...

Johannes Ketola, Foreign direct investment screening – security, public order and ke...

Master thesis, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law, 14 December 2022 ...

Charles Buker, Sam Karson and Madeline Sanderford, White House Issues Guidance on Foreign ...

National Defence, Volume 107, Issue 829, December 2022, page 42 ...

Latest CELIS news relating to the field of foreign investment screening and regulation.

CELIS Update on Investment Screening – November 2022

EU – Commission prepares revision of the EU’s FDI Screening Regulation In a communication on its work programme for 2023 dated 18.10.2022, the European Commission announced that it is ready to review the EU FDI Screening Regulation two years after its entry into force. The aim is to identify the necessary modifications that would improve…
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CELIS Update on Investment Screening – October 2022

USA – Treasury publishes CFIUS Enforcement and Penalty Guidelines On 20 October 2022 the Department of the Treasury, as Chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS” or the “Committee”), has released the first-ever CFIUS Enforcement and Penalty Guidelines. The Guidelines provide the public with information about how the Committee assesses…
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CELIS Briefing Note: Cyprus – Republic of Cyprus’ FDIS Bill: State of Play – Interim Update

Dr. Thomas Papadopoulos and Mr. Pantelis Christofides, CELIS Country Reporter for Cyprus,  provide an update on the current state of play of the process on legislation to screen foreign direct investment in Cyprus.            
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Latest other news relating to the field of foreign investment screening and regulation.

CELIS hosts and organises alone and with partners various events on the fields of foreign investment and public order and secruity. Our flagship event is the CELIS annual conference.

CELIS International Conferences

2022 CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS)

The Emerging Law of Investment Control in Europe:
Screening, Sanctions and Subsidies

01-03 June 2022

2021 CELIS Virtual Symposium

By invitation and CELIS Fellows event | 02-03 and 06-07 Dec 2021

CELIS Partner Events

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Understanding National Security Concerns in Light of FDI Screening

Conference: Understanding National Security Concerns in Light of FDI Screening Steffen Hindelang for two days devoted to national security considerations and Foreign Direct Investments at the Conference on ‘Understanding National Security Concerns in Light of FDI Screening’, 27 to 28 October 2022 in Rome. Steffen is currently professor of international investment and trade law at…
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Investment Screening in the European Union

ERA Conference: Investment Screening in the European Union Steffen Hindelang and Jens Hillebrand Pohl for two days devoted to the new EU investment screening framework at the Academy of European Law ERA Conference on Investment Screening in the European Union, 12-13 November 2020. Steffen is professor (wsr) at the Department of Law of the Syddansk…
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Video of the Book Launch: A Common European Law on Investment Screening (Springer 2021)

CELIS Book Launch 2021 – Video – With Cecilia Malmström and Sven Simon On 1 July 2021, the CELIS Institute and the YSEC Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions celebrated the official launch of “A Common European Law on Investment Screening (CELIS)” (published by Springer Nature Group) featuring a high-level panel debate with former European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström and Sven Simon,…
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