Handicapping investor-state arbitration cases is a tough business. Indeed, it’s difficult to predict when decisions will come down – much less what they will say.
The following somewhat-hastily-…
As a political slogan, re-Belizeanization was supposed to have a brief shelf life.
When the Government of Belize announced last August the “re-Belizeanization” of the tiny Central American country’s…
The emerging rule in the U.S. that, to recognize and enforce an arbitral award under the New York Convention, a U.S. court must have personal jurisdiction over the award debtor or his or her property…
Agency as a mechanism for compelling a non-signatory to join arbitral proceedings
By Hanna Roos for YIAG
International investors, and those who advise them, continue to be vexed by the question of…
In the spirit of spreading some festive cheer, I wanted to share with you what has been going on behind the scenes with Kluwer Arbitration this year. What an exciting year it has been. Following…
When mapping the present trajectory of investment treaties, common themes include the “rebalancing” or “recalibration” of substantive disciplines, concepts that signal a retreat from the high-water…
Until recently, no arbitral tribunal had found an investor’s claim under a BIT to be barred by a fork-in-the-road clause. Previous tribunals have found that for a fork-in-the-road clause to apply,…
In a recent decision dated 26 October 2009 (4A_428/2009), the Swiss Federal Tribunal held that a party that enters into a procedural agreement in parallel state court proceedings following…
When I last visited South Africa in 2006, there was much talk of a potential bilateral investment treaty between SA and Zimbabwe.
Three years later, as I make another visit to the region, the long-…
The concept of “moral damage” as long been recognised at international law. Article 31 of the International Law Commission (“I.L.C.”)’s Articles on State Responsibility provides that a State must…
