This article describes the competence, the organization and the legal nature of the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal which were created by the Versailles Peace Treaty and other peace treaties after the First World War. It specifically analyses the case-law of these tribunals regarding issues of private...

Strategic litigation describes the phenomenon of lawsuits brought by civil society actors (activists and NGOs) in order to promote legal, political or social change. Prominent examples are business human rights and climate change litigation, where parallel lawsuits are filed in different fora at...