…before claims can be submitted to a number of fora including arbitration under the ICSID Convention, ICSID Additional Facility Rules, UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules or such other rules that the disputing…

…the opportunity to clarify the relationship between customary international law rules of attribution and their treaty text. Alternative Approaches to Investor-State Dispute Settlement During the drafting of the IA-CEPA, Australia…

…ISDS procedural reforms and expedited proceedings under the UNCITRAL rules. The keynote speech from Professor Catherine Rogers of Penn State University and Queen Mary, University of London discussed the development…

…the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules in the Austria-Libya BIT to apply Article 7(2) (b) of the 1976 UNCITRAL Rules which provides that the Secretary-General of the PCA shall designate the appointing…

…conducting a consultation on amending its rules, and several States considering alternatives to the current system of investment treaty arbitration. A state of flux, however, also creates opportunity. With these…

…tribunals enjoy a rather wide discretion when deciding on the admissibility of evidence. Arbitration rules contain almost no guidance regarding the admissibility of illegal evidence specifically, and the Vis Moot…

…the confidentiality through a separate agreement or applicable rules. Although investment arbitrations in many cases have been conducted confidentially (while only awards and a few procedural decisions become public), recent…