We now have a total of more than 650 investment arbitration claims. The number of countries targeted by arbitration is … are strangled politically and economically. In theory, the link between investment arbitration and severe economic crisis … seems fairly straightforward. The recent upsurge of arbitration claims in 2011 and 2012 would thus hardly be puzzling. But …

increasingly important form of overlap that has begun to emerge: parallel or successive disputes before the World Trade …

Can states avoid lengthy and costly investor-state arbitration proceedings by entering into amicable settlements? While …

Despite the non-binding nature of investment arbitration decisions beyond the circle of disputing-parties, arbitration … tribunals rely on earlier decisions ‘whenever they can'. However, arbitration practice shows that opinions diverge when it comes … to deciding how much influence those earlier arbitration decisions should exert. These diverging opinions result from …

Arbitrators in investment treaty arbitration have not been reluctant to express their views on the access to … international arbitration, provided for in dispute settlement clauses in investment treaties, as forming a part of substantive … arbitration as a substantive right of investors amounts to law-making, effected by requalifying procedural rules as substantive …