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Ecuador Denounces ICSID: Much Ado About Nothing?
Much has been made of Ecuador’s recent withdrawal from the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (‘ICSID’). The notice has the effect of...
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The International Minimum Standard and Investment Law: The Proof is in the...
A Background Fair and equitable treatment provisions are found in almost all bilateral and multilateral investment treaties and many international investment agreements. Throughout the...
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Necessity in Investor-State Arbitration: The Sempra Annulment decision
Sahib Singh is a member of the international litigation and arbitration group at Skadden and a visiting lecturer at the University of Vienna. This note was prepared before the Enron v. Argentina...
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Kevin Heller’s Chevron Subpoena
Kevin tells the story here. Remarkably, the lawyers representing Chevron in its long-standing series of disputes with Ecuador issued a subpoena for information from Kevin’s Gmail account. Their only...
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Saar Papier v Poland: Comparative Public Law and the Second-Ever Investment...
Jarrod Hepburn is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter, UK. There has been much discussion in recent years – and in recent weeks on this blog – of the potential for investment...
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International Arbitration: Heating Up or Under Pressure?
Dapo recently posted on this blog about the rise of inter-State cases before the PCA and predicted that “the current rise of inter-state arbitration will endure for some time“. Many readers will...
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Philip Morris v Uruguay: an affirmation of ‘Police Powers’ and ‘Regulatory...
In recent years there has been criticism that international investment treaties and investor-State arbitration conducted under those treaties increasingly, and unacceptably, have encroached upon the...
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The Draft Code of Conduct for Adjudicators in Investor-State Dispute...
On May 1, 2020, the secretariats of ICSID and UNCITRAL released the first draft of the Code of Conduct for Adjudicators in Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). States, international organisations...
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