Recent Articles

• As Ukrainian parties file billion-dollar ECHR claims against Russia for recent war destructions and human rights violations, UNCLOS tribunal issues inter-state award regarding 2018 military stand-off in the Black Sea

  Jun 27, 2022

• Korean power company files LCIA arbitration against Pakistan

  Jun 27, 2022

• Swiss oil company claims victory in LCIA arbitration against Russia’s state-owned Sberbank

  Jun 27, 2022

• Breaking: Parties reach agreement in principle on modernizing Energy Charter Treaty, including carve-outs for fossil fuels and intra-EU disputes, stricter definitions and standards of protection, and application of 2014 UNCITRAL Rules on transparency

  Jun 24, 2022

• ECT arbitration against Spain is discontinued

  Jun 24, 2022

• Analysis: RREEF v. Spain committee is unconvinced that intra-EU arguments warrant annulment of the award

  Jun 24, 2022

• Revealed: Clorox v. Venezuela tribunal majority dismisses abuse of process argument after finding that the dispute was not foreseeable when the investor restructured the investment; dissenter sees bad faith in the claimant’s narrative

  Jun 23, 2022

• Georgia Round-Up: A claimed victory, several under-the-radar arbitrations, and billions of USD in financial exposure hanging over the state due to ongoing investor-state arbitrations

  Jun 23, 2022

• Analysis: First investor-state tribunal to dismiss case based on intra-EU objection finds that EU law applies to its jurisdiction (in a non-ICSID case seated in the EU) and prevails over the ECT

  Jun 22, 2022

• ICSID publishes final version of its 2022 Rules and Regulations, which will come into force on July 1, 2022

  Jun 22, 2022