Investment Treaties

Damages, ICSID, ICSID Arbitration, ICSID Convention, Investment, Investment agreements, Investment Arbitration, Investment Treaties, Investor, Investor-State arbitration, ISDS

(University of Vienna)/ /Leave a comment

On 26 May 2018, the Ninth Investment Arbitration Forum took place at the Juridicum of the University of Vienna jointly organized by Prof. Irmgard Marboe of the University of Vienna, Adriana San Román and Herfried Wöss of Wöss & Partners and ICC Austria. The topic of this year’s forum was “Valuation of Damages in Changing…

Investment Arbitration, Investment Treaties, IT, Social networks

(Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH)/ /Leave a comment

The explosive development of IT companies offering social platforms (social networking and instant messaging applications) over the past years has gifted us with many tools that we now use on a daily basis. Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, What’s App, Skype, Telegram and many others services help us to stay in touch with people all around the…

Africa, Arbitration, ICSID Convention, Investment Arbitration, Investment Treaties, Investor-State arbitration

(Afe Babalola & Co.)/ /1 Comment

International arbitration claims are oftentimes bedevilled with the contention that the claimant invoked the option to arbitrate much too early. Sometimes, this contention is no more than a lawyers’ artifice utilised to delay advancing arbitral proceedings. Yet, quite commonly, this contention is true in some cases. In my experience, I have identified a number of…