Amicus Curiae Interventions
Recent articles
Parties in NAFTA pharmaceuticals arbitration trade arguments on jurisdiction, as tribunal rejects amicus participation
Dec 1, 2011
Tribunal rules that mining company failed to waive local court proceedings, thus precluding CAFTA arbitration against El Salvador; hearings in a parallel case loom
Mar 15, 2011
Hungary prevails in first of three Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) arbitrations over power pricing disputes; arbitrators affirm that “politics” is not a dirty word
Sep 28, 2010
ANALYSIS: ECT’s stability clause does not immunize foreign investors from legal changes in Hungary; arbitrators see no clash between ECT and Hungary’s EU law obligations
Sep 28, 2010
South Africa not prepared to let claimant walk away from ICSID claim without further conditions
Nov 30, 2009
NGOs permitted to intervene in South Africa mining case and for second time at ICSID petitioners to see documents
Oct 14, 2009
South Africa mining arbitration sees another amicus curiae intervention
Sep 2, 2009
FREE: NGOs seek leave to intervene in ICSID arbitration arising out of South Africa’s treatment of foreign mining companies
Jul 21, 2009
Canadian indigenous association writes to tribunal in support of claimants in NAFTA tobacco arbitration
Feb 28, 2009
ANALYSIS: human rights law arguments figure prominently in NAFTA dispute over indigenous tobacco enterprise
Feb 10, 2009
ICSID tribunal will permit European Commission to file legal brief in Energy Charter Treaty arbitration
Dec 11, 2008
Claimant in garbage disposal dispute with Canada seeks closed-door hearings and wants amicus curiae to pay $25,000 fee
Nov 12, 2008
Claimant and Canada exchange arguments in claim brought by US citizen for alleged expropriation of waste disposal business
Nov 12, 2008
European Commission seeks to intervene as amicus curiae in ICSID arbitrations over Hungary's long-term power pacts
Sep 17, 2008
IN-DEPTH: Other treaty breaches, including of Fair and Equitable Treatment standard, upheld in Biwater v. Tanzania
Jul 28, 2008
