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Spain follows up on its annulment strategy by filing a request to disqualify arbitrator
In newly-surfaced UNCITRAL award, investor is awarded $87 million, as Hwang, Schwebel and Born conclude that contract is still binding despite non-compliance with constitutional requirement of parliamentary approval
Analysis: arbitrators see two ways in which international principle of estoppel can be imported into a contract governed solely by domestic law
At damages phase, lost-profits are treated as sure thing despite no profitability track-record or expert damages report; after hefty discount, investor is awarded $87 million on a “fairly limited” investment of $6 million
UPDATED WITH MORE INFO: New investor arbitration against Mexico is filed by US motorcycle manufacturer
Croatia faces another claim from an Austrian bank over its regulation of Swiss francs loans and mortgages
Ten are designated to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators by the ICSID’s leadership
Another pharmaceutical company puts Ukraine on notice of investment treaty dispute, although in relation to an unconventional type of dispute
Looking Back: Fortier-chaired tribunal in Santa Elena v. Costa Rica found environmental objectives irrelevant to compensation under international law
Arbitrators in Lone Pine v. Canada case allow one NGO to file a brief in NAFTA fracking arbitration

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