Corruption in Investor-State Arbitration
This paper explores legal and policy issues relating to the Process & Industrial Developments Limited v Federal Republic of Nigeria arbitration, focusing on suspicions and allegations of corruption in that case. It concerns a 2010 contract relating to the construction and operation of a gas processing facility between Process and Industrial ...
Bonnitcha, Jonathan, Mathew, Alisha
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Arbitration law and practice in Albania: Features, challenges and perspectives [PDF]
Arbitration, as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism, has gained significant traction worldwide. This is primarily due to its consensual nature, the involvement of non-governmental adjudicators, as well as its efficiency, flexibility and ...
Gjuzi Jola
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Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanism: The Quest for a Workable Roadmap
The last decade has witnessed an unprecedented increase in the use of investor-State arbitration, highlighting numerous shortcomings of the existing investor-State dispute settlement system.
Sachet Singh, Sooraj Sharma
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Relevance of the Investor's Practice and Behavior to the Adjustment of Compensation Arising out of the Breach of Investment Treaties' Standards of Protection [PDF]
Quantum of damages is one of the most important aspects of proceedings in investment arbitration. Assessment of damages in investment treaty claims occasionally requires adjustment and reduction of damages under certain circumstances and situations. This
Mohammad Jafar Ghanbari Jahromi +1 more
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Transparency in International Arbitration: Any (Concrete) Need to Codify the Standard?
In the last decades, transparency has become a fundamental principle in international adjudication. It is usually defined as including concepts such as public access and disclosure of documents or information.
Gabriele Ruscalla
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Provisions on waiting periods in international investment protection treaties and their impact on the jurisdiction of arbitral tribunals [PDF]
Provisions on so-called waiting periods in international investment protection treaties give an investor from one contracting state an opportunity to initiate arbitration against the host state provided that the time designated by the treaty from the ...
Đundić Petar
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This article provides an analysis of existing international mechanisms for protecting intellectual property rights and concludes whether investment arbitration can be an effective forum for resolving intellectual property disputes.
Kateryna Lazarchuk, Oksana Zadniprovska
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Confidentiality and transparency in international arbitration [PDF]
It is very often heard that confidentiality is one of the principal advantages of arbitration. Nevertheless, confidentiality is not recognized as a general principle of arbitration and there are no provisions on confidentiality to be found in legal ...
Stanivuković Maja
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Investor-State Arbitration: Economic and Empirical Perspectives
The investor-state arbitration system (“ISA”) was originally modelled on traditional commercial arbitration and was expected to deliver fast, good, and cheap decisions, especially in comparison to domestic court systems. Yet the ISA system has increasingly been criticized, especially by developing countries.
Faure, Michael, Ma, Wanli
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It Is not Just About Investor-State Arbitration: A Look at Case C-284/16, Achmea BV
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(1), 357-373 | European Forum Insight of 30 May 2018 | (Table of Contents) I. The "context". - II. The background of the case. - III.
Szilárd Gáspár-Szilágyi
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