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Recent Articles

• Further details of Egypt-Canada BIT claim come to light, as tribunal’s (non)bifurcation decision is finally released

  Dec 18, 2018

• ICSID committee declines to annul Suez v. Argentina (Case 03/17) award, but frowns on ICSID’s arbitrator challenge process and copy-paste approach used by arbitrators across several awards

  Dec 17, 2018

• In a new ruling, ICSID tribunal considers that it has the power to limit the scope of an amicus curiae submission, thus excising legal arguments and testimony

  Dec 17, 2018

• Venezuela’s bid to annul $500 million award fails; committee finds that it can’t review alleged impartiality of arbitrator

  Dec 17, 2018

• Karim Hafez tapped to chair tribunal that will hear Bollore dispute in Togo

  Dec 17, 2018

• Arbitrator steps aside in face of threatened challenge, and tribunal is then finalized

  Dec 17, 2018

• When state fails to pay advance on costs, annulment committee lifts stay on award before proceedings are suspended – thus leading to $42 million award becoming public as part of enforcement effort

  Dec 17, 2018

• In an apparent first, an arbitrator is disqualified from tribunal after state objects to his serving as counsel to investor in parallel case where jurisdiction over intra-EU claims was at issue

  Dec 13, 2018

• In newly-uncovered award, Derains-chaired tribunal sees no expropriation arising from government’s financial crisis response

  Dec 13, 2018

• Investor challenges Turkey’s cancellation of licenses, after state asserts monopoly over uranium mining activities

  Dec 13, 2018