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2017
Abstract This chapter provides an overview of investment treaty arbitration, where a host state’s consent to investor–state arbitration is contained in an investment treaty. The first section explains the basic features of investment treaty arbitration, and compares it to other dispute resolution processes—such as domestic and ...
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Abstract This chapter provides an overview of investment treaty arbitration, where a host state’s consent to investor–state arbitration is contained in an investment treaty. The first section explains the basic features of investment treaty arbitration, and compares it to other dispute resolution processes—such as domestic and ...
Jonathan Bonnitcha +2 more
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Emergency Arbitration in Investment Treaty Arbitration
2021Abstract This chapter discusses emergency arbitration in the context of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS), and specifically, investment treaty arbitration. The key distinction between emergency arbitration in commercial arbitration and in investment treaty arbitration concerns the application of the second principle of emergency ...
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The Meaning of ‘Investment’ in Investment Treaty Arbitration
2018Abstract Despite the growing number of investor-state arbitrations and resulting jurisprudence, there is still no consensus on the criteria of investment. This chapter first examines the way ‘investment’ is ‘defined’ in bilateral investment treaties and other international investment agreements, as well as the meaning of investment in ...
Katia Yannaca-Small, Dimitrios Katsikis
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The Plea of Illegality in Investment Treaty Arbitration
ICSID Review, 2014There is support in the investment treaty cases for the proposition that the lawfulness of the acquisition of the investment is a condition precedent for the conferral of adjudicative power upon the tribunal. This jurisdictional approach to the plea of illegality is justified by reference to three arguments: (i) an express provision of the treaty ...
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2012
Investment claims have exposed the vague nature of the standards by which arbitral tribunals are expected to adjudicate them and the policy reasons which explicitly or implicitly have an influence. The ad hoc nature of the tribunals and the decisions reached on various controversial issues have brought to the fore the issue of consistency.
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Investment claims have exposed the vague nature of the standards by which arbitral tribunals are expected to adjudicate them and the policy reasons which explicitly or implicitly have an influence. The ad hoc nature of the tribunals and the decisions reached on various controversial issues have brought to the fore the issue of consistency.
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Discrimination in Investment Treaty Arbitration
2023Abstract This book provides an original and comprehensive treatment of the non-discrimination standards at the heart of many investment treaty cases. Drawing insights from US law, EU law, and international human rights courts, the book supplies key insights into arbitration tribunals' decisions on the interpretation and application of
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Illegal Investments in Investment Treaty Arbitration
The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, 2012Abstract Investment treaty tribunals on numerous occasions have had to deal with the impact of breaches of domestic law by a foreign investor on the investment’s protection under an international investment treaty. In this context, tribunals had to interpret different “in accordance with host State law”-clauses contained in investment treaties, but ...
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Investment Treaty Arbitration in Asia
2019Abstract This chapter seeks to explore China’s approach to bilateral investment treaties and uses this to help consider its possible future strategy. In particular, the chapter considers the interaction of the growth and nature of China’s inward- and outward-bound foreign direct investment, with the protections provided in the BITs and ...
Matthew Hodgson, Adam Bryan
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Treaty and Contract in Investment Arbitration
Arbitration International, 2008This article addresses one of the most controversial issues in international investment law: the relationship between BIT claims and contractual claims. The author proposes an integrationist approach, which seeks to reconcile the opposing views and jurisprudence on the subject.
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