…and substantive reform of international investment law. It remains to be seen whether ongoing efforts at UNCITRAL Working Group III and other fora will achieve significant improvements on this front….

…postponed indefinitely due to ongoing debates about the Treaty’s future, including various withdrawals from it. The modernization process encapsulates broader reform efforts and attempts to balance protecting foreign investment while…

…standards of investment protection (FET, expropriation), excludes intra-EU ISDS from the scope dispute settlement, and the UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration are made applicable to all ISDS…

As scholars and practitioners have reported in recent years, the investor-state reform process continues to make progress at the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). The most recent session…

On March 7, 2023, the virtual conference organized by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), as well as the Latin American Arbitration Association (ALARB) titled “Dispute Resolution…

Under the UNCITRAL Model Law and the laws of many ‘arbitration friendly’ jurisdictions, courts must refer a matter subject to a valid and operative arbitration agreement to arbitration if requested…

…in arbitration, and second, a reform adopted in December 2022 allowing lawyers to charge outcome-related fees. Separate from Mainland China’s civil law system, HK is a common law jurisdiction. Its…

…from being limited to the protection of the substantive rights in dispute, to the protection of the arbitration itself, which is expressed in Article 26.2 of the 2010 UNCITRAL Rules….