On 14 June 2016, Iran lodged an application against the United States in the Case concerning Certain Iranian Assets before the ICJ. The case was filed shortly after the US Supreme Court's judgment in Bank Markazi v. Peterson, confirming that victims of terrorist attacks, in which Iran was...

The Glamis Gold award (2009) is one of the recent investment awards touching upon indigenous rights and has been termed a symbolic example of the clash between investors' rights and cultural heritage protection. Among the variety of conflicts which can arise in this regard, the award is...

The following case study - drafted for the 2016 ILA Committee meeting - is a unique example for the triangular relationship between investors, states and indigenous communities, and has been investigated both from an investment law and human rights perspective. It thus bears particular relevance...

The EU is a strange phenomenon, whether regarded from the perspective of international or domestic law. It evokes many questions on the relationship of its legal order with international law and domestic law, respectively. Despite the increasing trend by the CJEU to emphasize the EU's autonomy...