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 | Executive Director and Lena Hornkohl | Deputy Director
Screening
Protection
Facilitation
Security
Regulation
Strategy
Current Calls
CELIS Annual Call 2023: CELIS Country Reporter
By Julian Schramm |
Featured
Change in CELIS Leadership
By SH |
CELIS NOW is the CELIS Institute's most ambitious initiative to promote young talents with a focus on the law and practice of economic warfare.
In response to global power shifts, the European Union has recently added a set of geo-economic instruments, such as the FDI Screening Regulation, the Regulation on Distortive Foreign Subsidies, the new Dual-Use Regulation, and the Anti-Coercion Instrument, to its toolbox for “economic warfare”.
In light with the CELIS Institute’s mission to promote better regulation of foreign investments in the context of security, public order, and competitiveness; and along with its commitment to the promotion of researchers and practitioners at the early stages of their career, the Institute's Deputy Assistant Directors created an early-career scholars’ and practitioners’ network on the law and practice of economic warfare (CELIS NOW) .
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
Latest CELIS news relating to the field of foreign investment screening and regulation.
CELIS Update on Investment Screening – April 2023
By Julian Schramm |
CELIS Update on Investment Screening – March 2023
By Julian Schramm |
CELIS Update on Investment Screening – February 2023
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
The Age of Open Strategic Autonomy | 11-13 May 2023 | Berlin
2022 CELIS Forum on Investment Screening (CFIS)
The Emerging Law of Investment Control in Europe:
Screening, Sanctions and Subsidies
01-03 June 2022
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)