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Approaches to international investment protection: divergent approaches between the TPPA and developing countries’ model investment treaties
A growing international community of policy makers and analysts that recognizes that major reforms in the investment treaty regime are needed.
India's narrow BIT norms holding up trade pact
The new model text on the basis of which India is negotiating its Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT) is making it difficult for America to hold bilateral talks on the proposed India-US BIT
Protecting the government in investor-state dispute
The Indonesian government is currently reviewing all its international investment treaties after previously having terminated 20 bilateral investment treaties (BIT).
Forum shopping in the execution of ICSID awards: is it time to revive the UN convention on state immunity?
By virtue of the ICSID Convention awards are automatically enforceable. But enforcement of an award is only half of the equation; award holders must also navigate the separate, but equally important, task of executing the award.
TransCanada Corp moves forward with Keystone XL NAFTA challenge
TransCanada Corp. made good on its threat to challenge the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, filing a request for arbitration under NAFTA to recoup US$15 billion in damages from the U.S. government.
Free trade agreements not the great deal we've been sold
Australian governments of late seem only to listen to the din of money as though that equates with national interest.
Tafta : la souveraineté kidnappée
Jusqu’où peut-on pousser la logique du libre-échange ?
Mesa Power Group LLC v. Canada
The claimant in this case was Mesa Power Group LLC, a U.S. corporation that oversees and develops renewable energy projects, notably in the wind sector.
Iskandar Safa submits claim against the Hellenic Republic with ICSID
Iskandar Safa, co-owner of the Privinvest Group, a global player in the shipbuilding industry, which took control of Hellenic Shipyards SA, submitted a request for arbitration against the Hellenic Republic at the World Bank's ICSID.
Les contentieux entre entreprises et Etats atteignent un niveau record
En 2015, 70 nouveaux cas d’arbitrage entre entreprises et Etats ont été initiés. L’Espagne est en première ligne des Etats attaqués.