Access to Justice, Applicable Law, Investor-State arbitration, ISDS, ISDS Reform, Rule of Law, Working Group III

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As UNCITRAL Working Group III is proceeding to address concrete proposals to reform treaty-based investor-state arbitration, the future of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is at a historic juncture. Reform proposals include both incremental changes to investor-state arbitration and proposals for further institutionalization, such as the call of the European Union (EU) to establish a Multilateral…

Arbitration, Code of Ethics, Counsel, Counsel conduct

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Who Should Regulate the International Bar? The regulation of professional ethics of the international bar is among the most hotly debated issues in international arbitration (inter-state, investor-state, and commercial). It reflects the regulatory gap that has developed as proceedings before international courts and tribunals have proliferated and counsel diversified. Addressing this issue is crucial, as…

CETA, EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, European Union, ICSID Convention, Investment agreements, Investment Arbitration, Investment protection, ISDS, TPP, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

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International investment law and investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) are at a historic juncture as the United States and the European Union (EU) have started to address the content and contours of the investment chapter in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in the latest negotiation round that took place in Brussels the last week…

BIT, CETA, Germany, Investment, Investment agreements, Investment protection, Investor, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

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Germany’s position on international investment law and investor-State arbitration is attracting increasing attention since the signing of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in September 2014 has been deferred, inter alia, because of opposition from Sigmar Gabriel, Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy. Is Germany, the country that not only has…

ICSID Convention, Investment Arbitration, Transparency in investment arbitrations, UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency

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Transparency is one of the hot topics in international law. With governance functions increasingly shifting from the domestic to the international level, transparency is demanded, as Andrea Bianchi and Anne Peters show in their new seminal study, in order to compensate for the lack of a full-fledged international system of checks and balances. Transparency promises…