This paper is written in the context of the unravelling policy debate on Investor-State Dispute Settlement in Australia, which has become central in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations. Deviating from the widely accepted international practice of resolving investment disputes through...

This paper provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the slightly different trends that the different sources of norms regulating arbitration manifest, and the effect of these trends over the field, identifying the advantages and disadvantages of an ever-growing tendency towards...