In the world of International Arbitration (“IA”), one distinguishes between commercial arbitration and investment arbitration, the latter widely referred to as Investor-State Dispute Settlement or ISDS, as a dispute resolution…

…substantive provisions governing arbitration while the Ethiopian Civil Procedure Code, put in place five years after, governs the procedural aspects. According to these Codes, Ethiopian Courts are involved in different…

…very attractive investment destinations, including from new economic powers such as China, whereas intra-African foreign investment is also on the rise. These developments are reflected in the legal framework for…

…and the Netherlands’ decision to terminate intra-EU treaties, should have been unsurprising to arbitration practitioners. Over the last twenty years, investment treaty-based arbitration has grown exponentially (see Figure 1 below)….

the arbitration agreement requires the investment to be made in accordance with law, tribunals usually consider economic crimes at the jurisdictional stage of arbitration (See, e.g. Methanex v United States…

…Mauritius Convention on Transparency, which entered into force in October 2017, aims at applying the 2014 UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency in treaty-based investor-state arbitration. The Rules now apply by default…

…community to detail and expand ideas for regulation. Such self-regulatory rules, despite their undeniable influence, however, have rarely been more than ‘soft law’. Further, the enforcement of such rules does…