On 23 December 2025, the ICSID Tribunal rendered its award in Kappes v. Guatemala, a dispute brought under the CAFTA-DR and the ICSID Convention by US national Daniel W. Kappes and his Nevada-based…
Monday’s New York conference on “Arbitration with States and State Entities under the ICC Rules” got me thinking about the possibility of amicus submissions in investment cases before the ICC or…
In a recent post, Lisa Bench Nieuwveld raised an issue which has been discussed from time to time on this blog: the potential for not-for-profit activities to be protected under international…
It is rather interesting to read in the news about how some governments have chosen to “fund” their own government. One government went so far as to simply clear out the checking accounts of small…
