…in light of well-known developments in Europe pertaining to investor-state arbitration,16) See, e.g., Laurens Ankersmit, “Achmea: the Beginning of the End for INVESTOR-STATE ARBITRATION in and with Europe?”, Investment Treaty…

Achmea case. Pioneer steps have already been taken in several BITs towards the creation of permanent investment bodies with notably, Chapter 8, Section F of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and…

Considering what the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) said in its Judgment of 6 March 2018, under Case C‑284/16, widely known as the “Achmea judgment” (“Achmea”), one…

On 6 March 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) in the case no. C‑284/16 Slovak Republic v. Achmea BV (“Achmea case”) (available here) stated that arbitration…