The World Is Not Enough
…about disclosure of funders. Today we have several new sources—including the IBA Guidelines, the ICC Practice Note, proposed Hong Kong and Singapore legislation, and some new BITs—which establish standards for…
…about disclosure of funders. Today we have several new sources—including the IBA Guidelines, the ICC Practice Note, proposed Hong Kong and Singapore legislation, and some new BITs—which establish standards for…
…arbitral tribunals in intra-EU BIT arbitrations. They argue that intra-EU BITs are incompatible with EU law. To date arbitral tribunals seized under intra-EU BITs do not appear to have followed…
…Intra– and Extra-EU BITs”. While the Government may in fact already be holding at least informal talks on such future treaties, Burgstaller and Zarowna show that as a matter of…
…inter and intra-generational equity and public trust doctrine, to direct the government to take further action on climate change. At the international level, courts of general jurisdiction (e.g. ICJ) have…
Volume 33 Issue 4 ARTICLES SECTION Stephan Wilske & Chloë Edworthy, The Future of Intra-EU BITs: A Recent Development in International Investment Treaty Arbitration Against Romania And Its Potential Collateral…
…use. Some BITs and FTAs, such as the 2012 U.S. Model BIT, the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) already use the term…
…enforcement of arbitral awards, the future of TTIP, the negotiation of new international investment treaties (including intra-EU BITs), Brexit’s impact on the international arbitration bar, whether the Brexit vote (or…
…intra-EU anti-suit injunctions, so too could other EU courts as against the UK. However, if the UK does leave the EU, it is likely that it will accede to another…
…have an impact on the rules governing global investment, influencing future and current negotiations of Bilateral Investment Treaties (“BITs”) and Free Trade Agreements (“FTAs”). It might even guide the negotiations…
…direct investments flowed into developing countries, of which Asia received US$ 465 billion. A sizable portion of international investments in Asia is intra-Asia in nature, particularly in respect of investments…
…that states intended to be sued by their own nationals when they signed BITs? Should tribunals look beyond the text of the treaty to discern the intention of the parties…
…are found in the diplomatic protection mechanisms (supported by the ICJ in Interhandel, further clarified in Diallo). Nowadays, most BITs do not require the exhaustion of local remedies. However, some…
…of Treaties (“VCLT“) thus serving as an aid to interpretation? Fourth, is the arbitration route under Article 8 (reflected in many “first generation” Chinese BITs) reserved only for disputes relating…
…which submitted that there existed in the ECT an “implied disconnecting clause” for intra-EU relations which disconnected EU State members from the ECT, in their relations among them. This was…
…and in other cases try to rethink the dispute resolution procedure governing ISDS (see the ISDS mechanism in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the EU). However,…
…context of TTIP in November 2015 as well as the system adopted in the EU-Vietnam FTA (January 2016 text) and Canada EU-CETA (February 2016 text). For TTIP, the proposed ICS…
…the European Union, the United States and Canada. India is presently a member to over eighty BITs and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and as such has a strong interest in…
…intra-EU BITs, extra-EU BITs, and future investment agreements concluded by the EU itself. Illustration of the conflict A fictitious case study was proposed based on the Vattenfall case (settled in…
…Law in the signatory states of the BITs. The greatest visible success of this campaign has certainly been the fact that any ISDS claims regarding tobacco measures have been fully…
…Bulgaria and Egypt. In the meantime, no new BITs, or negotiations for new BITs, have been announced. At the same time that it has been taking steps to terminate its…
…the TTIP and a few Model BITs, such as the French BIT Model, which purport to deal with TPF in investment arbitration. There is currently no provision in any national…
…Syria and Libya have entered into bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and private contracts with arbitration clauses that remain in force. While challenges exist in invoking such legal rights (for example,…
…This conference moves away from the BITs discussion and aims to bring legal experts, practitioners and policy makers to discuss the interaction of EU law with investment arbitration under the…
…renegotiate its existing BITs with around 73 countries and for entering into new BITs. Owing to the language and stance of the Draft BIT, it was also perceived to inhibit…