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
Screening
Protection
Facilitation
Security
Regulation
Strategy
Current Calls
Opening: Deputy Director of the CELIS Institute (Research programme and events)
By SH |
CELIS Annual Call 2023: CELIS Country Reporter
By Julian Schramm |
Featured
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
Johannes Ketola, Foreign direct investment screening – security, public order and ke...
Charles Buker, Sam Karson and Madeline Sanderford, White House Issues Guidance on Foreign ...
Latest CELIS news relating to the field of foreign investment screening and regulation.
CELIS Update on Investment Screening – November 2022
By Julian Schramm |
CELIS Update on Investment Screening – October 2022
By Julian Schramm |
CELIS Briefing Note: Cyprus – Republic of Cyprus’ FDIS Bill: State of Play – Interim Update
By Julian Schramm |
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
By invitation and CELIS Fellows event | 02-03 and 06-07 Dec 2021
CELIS Partner Events
Understanding National Security Concerns in Light of FDI Screening
Investment Screening in the European Union
Video of the Book Launch: A Common European Law on Investment Screening (Springer 2021)