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Tribunal awards India first BIT case win, dismissing claims of French investor
Herbert Smith Freehills | 19-Sep-2018
An UNCITRAL arbitral tribunal has reportedly dismissed a US$36 million claim by a French investor, Louis Dreyfus Armateurs SAS (“LDA“), against India under the 1997 France-India bilateral investment treaty.
keywords: France, India, investor-state disputes | ISDS, militarism | terrorism | security
Rethinking international investment governance: Principles for the 21st century
CCSI | 19-Sep-2018
The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment is hosting a two-day conference on rethinking international investment governance, which seeks to elaborate principles for a progressive investment agenda.
keywords: environment, investment | BITs, investor-state disputes | ISDS
Tanzania cites bias as it changes laws governing arbitration
The East African | 18-Sep-2018
Tanzania has moved to ensure that investor disputes are resolved locally after Attorney General Adelardus Kilangi pushed through parliament the Public Private Partnership (Amendment) Bill, 2018.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS, Tanzania
Affaire Chevron-Équateur : l’arbitrage international confirme sa réputation d’instrument au service des puissants
Observatoire des Multinationales | 17-Sep-2018
Les arbitres de la Cour permanente d’arbitrage ont sommé l’Équateur de récuser son propre système judiciaire.
keywords: Ecuador, energy, environment, investor-state disputes | ISDS, US
Ecuador anuncia acciones contra laudo arbitral
El Tiempo | 14-Sep-2018
La Procuraduría General del Estado anunció las acciones legales que seguirá para intentar anular el laudo arbitral en contra del Ecuador y a favor de la petrolera estadounidense Chevron.
keywords: Ecuador, environment, investor-state disputes | ISDS
From the indigenous peoples’ environmental catastrophe in the Amazon to the investors’ dispute on denial of justice: the Chevron v. Ecuador August 2018 PCA arbitral award and the dearth of international environmental remedies for private victims
EJIL: Talk! | 14-Sep-2018
The task no longer lies with interpreting investment treaties alone and trying to reform investment arbitration in general – but designing an entirely cohesive system for international environmental justice that is open to the actual victims of environmental disasters and not just the States that often fail to genuinely represent them.
keywords: Ecuador, energy, environment, investor-state disputes | ISDS, US
Kyiv court rules to seize shares of Russia’s state-owned banks in Ukraine
BNE Intellinews | 14-Sep-2018
The move followed a ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration that the Russian government must compensate almost two dozen Ukrainian companies for their losses incurred from the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS, Russia, Ukraine
More than 300 Republican and Democratic state legislators from all 50 states urge end of investor-state dispute settlement system in NAFTA
Public Citizen | 13-Sep-2018
In letter to US Trade Representative, lawmakers say ISDS undermines state sovereignty and lawmaking.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS, NAFTA, US
Latvia is seeking annulment of an arbitral award rendered by the ICSID arbitral tribunal
State Chancellery of the Republic of Latvia | 13-Sep-2018
Latvia has made an application for annulment of an arbitral award in the case of UAB “E energija” (Lithuania) v. Republic of Latvia.
keywords: energy, investor-state disputes | ISDS, Latvia, Lithuania
Tanzania defends move to withdraw from int’l arbitrations
Xinhua | 13-Sep-2018
Authorities in Tanzania defended their move to amend public-private partnership laws and withdraw from international arbitrations.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS, Tanzania

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