El artículo estudia las cláusulas del Acuerdo de Cooperación y Facilitación de las Inversiones (ACFI) entre Brasil y México en 2015. Se compara con las cláusulas estándar de los Tratados Bilaterales de Inversión (TBI) firmados en los años noventa.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague has said it has jurisdiction to hear the case of a Ukrainian company seeking to recover damages for property lost when Russia annexed Crimea.
Acacia Mining said it was seeking an adjudicator to resolve its dispute with the Tanzanian government, a day after the east-African country passed two laws to force companies to re-negotiate their contracts.
Regardless of the short-term outcome, the movement for a progressive new NAFTA will hand progressives a dynamic issue—and a mobilized base—in the 2018 and 2020 elections. The current renegotiation could set the stage for future battles, perhaps for deeper change.
Governments at the Centre and in the States must urgently invest in building their own capacity to handle the new generation of international investment arbitration.
With Gabriel Resources seeking US$4.4 billion in damages, Alburnus Maior, a prospective amicus curiae in the arbitration case, announces that it aims to file its brief to the ICSID Tribunal until September 2018 at the latest.
L’ancien vice-président de la Cour d’arbitrage international de Londres, Laurent Lévy, a été désigné arbitre en chef dans l’affaire opposant le ministère de l’Habitat à l’entreprise espagnole Ortiz Construcciones au niveau du CIRDI.