unconditional positive. And in the context of investment arbitration, there are reasons why we may believe that the conditions for … consistency to be a good thing are actually not met: in investment arbitration the pursuit of consistency may well do more harm …

status of contractual joint ventures and their participants in international investment arbitration and compares it with the … arbitration, it does not by itself preclude individual claims of their participants in both types of arbitration. Furthermore, the …

investment arbitration -- 4. The minimum standard of treatment and the protection of foreign investors during an armed conflict …

sovereign prerogative of revenue raising, the practice proves very much to the contrary. Arbitration of tax-related disputes … proves very much a reality despite doctrinal objections. The amenability of such disputes to arbitration remains highly fact …-intensive, with no hard-and-fast rule prohibiting all tax arbitration per se, while some controversies stay out-of-bounds for …

The call for more efficient proceedings has been on the agenda in international commercial arbitration for quite a … while. However, in investment arbitration the topic has so far received little attention. This article attempts to delineate … arbitration. It then goes on to analyze the effectiveness of recent efficiency improvements to arbitration rules frequently used …