Investment agreements

Julian Davis Mortenson (University of Michigan Law School) for Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)

The Domain of Investment Law: What is an Investment?

October 13, 2011

Article 25 of the ICSID Convention famously limits ICSID jurisdiction to “legal dispute[s] arising directly out of or in relation to an investment.” Uncertainty about the outer limits of this…

Andrew Newcombe (University of Victoria Faculty of Law)

Harnessing Freedom of Investment for Green Growth

March 18, 2011

The OECD-hosted Freedom of Investment (FOI) Roundtable is in the process of finalizing a statement regarding the role of international investment in supporting the realization of countries’ green…

Luke Eric Peterson (Investment Arbitration Reporter)

10 Investor-State Awards I Had Hoped to Read in 2010

December 30, 2010

Last year, around this time, I offered a list of 10 investor-state arbitral awards I hoped to see in 2010. If time permits, I may do another list for 2011. But, first I thought I’d take a look back…

Christian W. Konrad (Konrad & Justich)

Kosovo and Arbitration – The Birth of a New State

November 17, 2010

Within the last two decades, over 30 new states emerged within the international community. From a political, economic, as well as a legal point of view, the formation of a state is always an…

J. Martin Hunter (Essex Court Chambers) for Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)

Status of the Work of UNCITRAL's Working Group II

September 20, 2010

The sense of relief enjoyed by NGO observers and other followers that UNCITRAL Working Group II's Arbitration Rules revision project was finally completed in the Summer of 2010, after seemingly…