The case study of investment treaty arbitration provides an opportunity to examine whether and how the invocation of … protection rules. The overall thesis is that conceptual challenges faced by investment arbitration may be illuminated by the …

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 …

increased, tribunal costs also increased. Such a combination of variability and convergence can disrupt the value of arbitration …

received various and conflicting answers: is investment arbitration a public or a private method of dispute settlement? A key … criticism levelled at investment treaty arbitration is that public interest disputes are decided by a system of private justice …. This article critically reviews the dominant interpretations of investment treaty arbitration as public, private, or hybrid …

The five contributions in this legal working paper discuss various aspects of investment arbitration. They were … originally presented at the ECB legal colloquium on ‘The new challenges raised by investment arbitration for the EU legal order …