Articles in English
The Cable | 19-Oct-2020
The Human and Environmental Development Agenda, Re:Common, Global Witness, and Corner House, have called on the Nigerian government to stand against Eni’s legal move over the oil processing license (OPL) 245.
Telecompaper | 15-Oct-2020
Orange Group has instituted legal proceedings against Iraq in an attempt to claw back more than USD 400 million in investments it alleges were expropriated by the country’s regulator.
IISD | 14-Oct-2020
The tribunal rejected the investor’s claims of expropriation, breach of standard of FET, breach of standard of full protection and security, and breach of standard of non-arbitrary or discriminatory measures.
IISD | 14-Oct-2020
The tribunal dismissed all claims on merits, apart from the claim under national treatment, which was considered outside the tribunal’s jurisdiction.
Reuters | 14-Oct-2020
Eni plans to argue that the country’s failure to allow it to exploit an oilfield it acquired with Royal Dutch Shell nearly a decade ago breaches their investment agreement.
EJIL: Talk! | 13-Oct-2020
Does moving online mean more governments and more officials participate? Or does it lessen the prestige and priority of the negotiations, leading to less engagement by key officials?
IISD | 13-Oct-2020
15 highly active respondent countries with net ISDS losses cumulatively account for USD 14.8 billion in net outcomes through 2017.
keywords:
investor-state disputes | ISDS
IISD | 13-Oct-2020
Tanzania has enacted significant changes to the legislation governing foreign investment in natural resources with the aim of ridding the sector of the vestiges of “colonial” relationships.
keywords:
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
ISDS reform ,
mining ,
natural resources ,
Tanzania ,
UNCITRAL
Journal of Economic Surveys | 9-Oct-2020
74 studies find robust evidence that effect of international investment agreements on foreign direct investment is so small as to be considered zero.
keywords:
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
EJIL: Talk! | 8-Oct-2020
Effective and holistic reform must go beyond procedural matters and cover substantive matters in order to rebalance the system and address recurring concerns that threaten the legitimacy of the ISDS system.
