News Headlines

Southeast Asia Round-Up: Award in dispute with Thailand is delayed by joint consent, Myanmar faces multiple arbitration threats, and a rail company brings claim against the Philippines
Looking Back: The ICJ’s Diallo judgments found that states could exercise diplomatic protection with respect to shareholders’ rights, but not on behalf of local companies controlled by their nationals – while observing that the role of diplomatic protection had “somewhat faded” in light of the growth of investor-state arbitration
Jean Kalicki is tapped to chair contract arbitration against Bangladesh
Long-running Pey Casado v. Chile saga sees new twist, as Spanish judge orders Chile to pay 552 million USD to the claimants
Two Russian banks threaten treaty arbitration against Ukraine following seizure of their assets in the context of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war
Analysis: ICSID ad hoc committee lifts stay of enforcement in dispute with Israeli renewable energy investors
Analysis: POSH v. Mexico tribunal finds that most of the impugned measures do not bear a sufficient relation to investor and that higher standard for judicial expropriation is not met, awarding only a fraction of the damages sought; Reisman dissents
Mexico Round-Up: Marine services award surfaces, a failed constitutional reform, and potential claims over nationalization of lithium exploitation
Analysis: ICSID tribunal finds that failure to grant long-term mining concession in Rwanda did not amount to a treaty breach
Ukraine is facing a new ECT arbitration, but proceedings are suspended due to armed conflict

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