On 17 February 2026, ICSID published its report on cases registered in 2025. This report revealed that a record number of cases were filed against states in Sub-Saharan Africa. Indeed, ICSID’s…
A recurring theme throughout Paris Arbitration Week 2026 (“PAW”) was the evolving relationship between public international law and investment arbitration. Three panels approached this intersection…
Investor-State arbitration (“ISA”) has been criticised for giving investors room to pressure host states. While most ISA cases proceeded all the way to the issuance of arbitral awards, around one…
Investment treaties are necessarily incomplete. Not every contingency can be anticipated, and silence is an inherent feature rather than a defect. Some omissions are more relevant than others. There…
2025 witnessed mixed developments for the future of intra-European Union (“EU”) investment arbitration, that is, proceedings brought by an investor from one EU Member State against another EU Member…
On 30 June 2025, the tribunal in ICSID Case No. ARB/20/46 (“Tribunal”) issued its final award (“Award”), ordering the Republic of Peru (“Peru”) to pay USD 40 million to a Canadian investor, Lupaka…
On 27 November 2025, Queen Mary University of London hosted the 11th Annual EFILA lecture, sponsored by Control Risks. The lecture was delivered by Professor Maxi Scherer, who is “an Artificial…
While the European Union and its Member States are still assessing whether to introduce a mechanism to review outbound investment for economic security reasons, the Netherlands appears to be ahead of…
When I first began teaching international economic law subjects to law students, the use of the Internet was just beginning to gain global traction. Today, some decades later, both the legal and…
