Lukasz Gorywoda

VVGB Advocaten and European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration (EFILA)

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Lukasz Gorywoda (VVGB Advocaten and European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration (EFILA))

How States Manage Their Obligations Under Bilateral Investment Treaties: Opportunistically Changing The Rules of The Game or Legitimately Exercising Their Sovereign Rights? (Part II)

August 29, 2017

These two-parts blog posts look into the ways that states can control the exercise of tribunals’ discretion and their implications. Of course, states can prevent unintended results from happening by…

Lukasz Gorywoda (VVGB Advocaten and European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration (EFILA))

How States Manage Their Obligations Under Bilateral Investment Treaties: Opportunistically Changing The Rules of The Game or Legitimately Exercising Their Sovereign Rights? (Part I)

August 28, 2017

There are around 3,000 bilateral investment treaties (BIT) in force worldwide. Most of them are concise with broadly formulated investor rights and host state obligations. In practice, it is up to…