Articles in English
SSRN | 4-Aug-2017
The Bilcon tribunal ruling raises a number of concerns about the ability of investor protection tribunals to properly assess whether a foreign investor has been treated fairly under a domestic environmental assessment process.
The Hindu | 4-Aug-2017
As talks with Canada began before model text was approved by Cabinet, deviations may be allowed.
Lauge Poulsen | 3-Aug-2017
This book synthesises and advances the growing stock of literature on the investment treaty regime by integrating legal, economic, and political perspectives.
keywords:
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
TNI | 3-Aug-2017
The Kyrgyz Republic currently faces investment claims in the proximity of 1 billion USD, arising out of investment dispute settlement cases.
Business Monkey | 3-Aug-2017
The Government of Spain has submitted to international arbitration tribunal ICSID appeal against the ruling which condemned him to pay 128 million euros plus interest to the British firm Eiser Infrastructure.
American Lawyer | 1-Aug-2017
Litigation funder Burford Capital stands to take home roughly $140 million from a $324 million recovery against the government of Argentina.
People’s Forum against FTAs and RCEP | 28-Jul-2017
“Tell us at least now who gains from RCEP,” People’s Forum challenges the Indian government as the 19th round of RCEP negotiations comes to an end
keywords:
actions | resistance ,
agriculture | farmers | food ,
India ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
Philippines ,
RCEP
Jakarta Post | 28-Jul-2017
Crucial to RCEP’s investment protection chapter is the highly controversial Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism, a system of privatised justice characterised by international arbitration tribunals outside of the reach of domestic legal systems, explains Cecilia Olivet of TNI
Intercontinental Cry | 27-Jul-2017
This past month, eighteen Aymara community leaders endured the final stages of a trial that had them facing up to 28 years in prison and massive fines for their alleged roles in the 2011 ‘Aymarazo’ protests against the Santa Ana silver mine on the Peru-Bolivia border.
keywords:
actions | resistance ,
Canada ,
indigenous peoples ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
mining ,
Peru
Volterra Fietta | 26-Jul-2017
The data lead to the inexorable conclusion that the European Commission’s declaration that “investment treaty arbitration is dead” is wrong by a ratio of over 1:3,000.
