International investment arbitration can be said to be built on a great asymmetry: on the one hand, foreign investors … are endowed with a set of significant rights, most notably the right to initiate disputes before arbitration tribunals; on … article assesses whether the in-built asymmetry of investor-state arbitration runs counter to the rule of law. Clarifying the …

The choice for investment arbitration cannot be made without consideration of some relevant factors. The options are …-hoc arbitration under the Rules of the United Nations Commission on Trade and International Law (“UNCITRAL Rules”). The other … institutions and ad-hoc arbitration are conveniently referred to as ‘Non-ICSID'. This essay interrogates the question of whether to …

investment arbitration in the determination of whether a host state has complied with its investment protection obligations for …

investment treaty arbitration ought to be characterised as review …

. Investment arbitration should thus tend to target countries in which certain types of political risk has materialized. In order … test various links between those two drivers of risk and arbitration claims. We use an original dataset that includes … investment claims filed under the rules of all arbitration institutions as well as ad hoc arbitrations. We find that bad …

This paper offers the first detailed English-language analysis of international investment arbitration law and practice ….Part 3 outlines the first two treaty-based claims filed against Thailand, especially the 2009 arbitration award in favour …. However, Part 3 also examines cases where the Thai government has been subject to arbitration claims under concessions or …

concerning Investor-State Arbitration (ISA) under intra-EU Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) from a treaty law perspective. It …