The two Philip Morris cases involving restrictions on the presentation and sale of cigarettes through plain packaging measures has been used by anti-ISDS groups as the prime example for creating the…
by Catherine H. Gibson (Assistant Editor for North America)
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement (official text here) is one in a series of significant investment agreements that the United…
by Nahila Cortes, American University Washington College of Law
Much is being said about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (“TPP”), the landmark free trade agreement signed by twelve States…
by Esmé Shirlow (Assistant Editor for Australia & New Zealand)
Gabriele Ruscalla has recently observed that "transparency has become a fundamental principle in international adjudication…
Summer fun
Dear Readers,
you may have noticed the dearth of recent posts, for which we make no excuses.
It is late summer for the northern hemisphere contributors. At this point, most of us are…
On 24 June 2015, the Australian Productivity Commission released its eighteenth Trade and Assistance Review 2013-14.
The Commission is an independent research and advisory body, with statutory…
Keeping abreast of Australia’s stance on ISDS can be a confusing exercise. Australia’s approach to investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) continues to be hotly debated in the wake of recent…
The question of what constitutes an “arbitration” is unlikely to be one that arbitral practitioners have cause to ponder on a daily basis. In fact, such a question might appear at first to be purely…
This article is published as a result of the cooperation agreement between Kluwer Arbitration Blog and ArbitralWomen. The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and should…
Indonesia is not the only Asia-Pacific nation that is reassessing investment treaties containing provisions on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS, especially arbitration). India announced a…
