investor-state disputes | ISDS


Cairn Energy wants $ 5.6 billion compensation from India for 'unlawful' tax demand
Cairn Plc has claimed compensation of $5.6 billion from India in legal proceedings against the retrospective tax demand.
India wants new foreign investment pacts to limit lawsuits
The notifications, issued earlier this year, effectively let governments know they have 12 months to broker new treaties before the old ones expire.
Phillip Morris loses tough-on-tobacco lawsuit in Uruguay
The World Bank's ICSID ruled in favor of Uruguay in a suit filed by Philip Morris International seeking compensation for economic damages caused by the nation's anti-tobacco measures.
Spanish agriculture firms file arbitration claim against Venezuela
Spanish agriculture company Grupo Agroinsumos Ibero-americanos and associated firms have filed an arbitration case against Venezuela via a World Bank tribunal, seeking compensation for the 2010 nationalization of its operations.
Chevron shareholders still wary of risks from $11 billion Ecuador judgment
Chevron shareholders remain wary of the risks from an $11 billion judgment against the company in Ecuador. They also continue to be critical of Chevron management’s mishandling of the case.
CETA’s specter of corporate dictatorship still haunts Canada, EU
CETA, like its cousins TTP and TTIP, would cement into place the right of multi-national corporations to dictate to governments without any democratic input.
Mongolia’s experience with investment treaties and arbitration cases
Mongolia’s web of international investment agreements and the promise of development
Towards a European model for investor–state disputes?
Public debate over how best to manage the interests of foreign investors and host states has resurfaced in Australia.
The ISDS controversy: How we got here and where next
In recent years the debate over investor state dispute settlement (ISDS) has heated up and in Europe is reaching boiling point
The impact of ISDS on the environment
Brooke Guven (Colombia Center on Sustainable Investment) talks about investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) at AFL-CIO conference on trade.