By Pia Eberhardt, Corporate Europe Observatory, and Cecilia Olivet, Transnational Institute
At the end of November, Corporate Europe Observatory and the Transnational Institute published Profiting…
In the final days of 2012, I spent some time flipping back through the stories we've covered at Investment Arbitration Reporter, looking to identify the year's most notable developments. I've settled…
As its Council Member I attended the ICC Institute of World Business Law’s 32nd annual meeting on ‘Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration’ held in Paris on 26 November 2012. It was a grand…
By Claudia Ludwig and Jennifer Hartzler
Whenever a hearing in an arbitration is on the horizon, the question of how far you can go in preparing your witnesses arises. Apart from particularly…
Arbitration is underpinned by natural justice. Article 18 of the Model Law, enshrining the right of the parties to be treated with equality, and given a full opportunity to present their case, was…
by Inna Uchkunova and Oleg Temnikov
Foreword
“The whole exercise was great fun and for me, I was then 26 years old, a great eye-opener - I learned a lot.”
- Sir Elihu Lauterpacht on his advice given…
By Tai-Heng Cheng* & Lucas Bento**
Introduction
On October 5th, 2012, a split ICSID tribunal determined that the Republic of Ecuador had breached the US-Ecuador bilateral investment treaty (“BIT…
Two major events have taken place recently regarding the situation of Bilateral Investment Treaties concluded between European Member States (“Intra-EU BITs”) and Bilateral Investment Treaties…
There are many clients who are often engaged in industrious works that result in disputes. Typically, the applicable arbitral agreements requirement submitting claims to international arbitration and…
In a recent post, here, I argued that the time has come to move on from the gumshoe clue-hunting approach currently employed to select international arbitrators. Existing practices are severely…
