Public International Law Notes

Beyond Boundaries: the SCC's new policy for Intra-EU Investment Arbitration

The Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has introduced a new policy where intra-EU investment treaty arbitrations will no longer be designated seats in the EU

EU signs the Mauritius Convention on Transparency in Investor-State Arbitration

The European Union signed the United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration on 2 July 2024 after the Council of …

ICSID publishes study on compliance with and enforcement of ICSID arbitration awards, revealing high satisfaction rates for award creditors

The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has recently published a comprehensive study based on an analysis of 565 …

Surge in cases as ICSID releases its 2023 caseload statistics

On 1 February 2024, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) released its caseload statistics for the 2023 calendar year, …

UNCITRAL publishes final Codes of Conduct for Arbitrators and Judges in International Investment Disputes

UNCITRAL has published the final texts of its Code of Conduct for Arbitrators in International Investment Disputes (Arbitrators’ Code) and Code of …

9th annual EFILA Conference on 25 April 2024 in Frankfurt: New frontiers in international investment arbitration

We are pleased to share with you the details of the upcoming Conference of the European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration (EFILA), taking …

The European Commission's Non-Paper on Model Clauses for Member States' BITs with Third Countries

In October last year, the European Commission released a Non-Paper on Model Clauses with Annotations for EU Member States' negotiation of bilateral …

ANGOLA BECOMES 165TH SIGNATORY OF THE ICSID CONVENTION

Angola has become the latest state to sign the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of other States (the …

ICSID MEMBER STATES APPROVE AMENDED 2022 ARBITRATION RULES

UNCTAD PUBLISHES REPORT ON INVESTOR-STATE DISPUTE SETTLEMENT CASES IN 2020

ICSID RELEASES FIFTH WORKING PAPER ON ICSID RULES REVISION: THE LAST CHANGES BEFORE THE FINAL VOTE?

CANADA'S NEW 2021 MODEL BIT