UNCITRAL
IISD | 13-Oct-2020
Tanzania has enacted significant changes to the legislation governing foreign investment in natural resources with the aim of ridding the sector of the vestiges of “colonial” relationships.
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investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
ISDS reform ,
mining ,
natural resources ,
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UNCITRAL
EJIL: Talk! | 8-Oct-2020
Effective and holistic reform must go beyond procedural matters and cover substantive matters in order to rebalance the system and address recurring concerns that threaten the legitimacy of the ISDS system.
Afronomics Law | 9-Sep-2020
The hegemon aspirants in international investment law have already, and perhaps unwittingly, revealed their three step manual: Disguise, dismiss, divert.
South Centre | 28-Feb-2020
The basis of a claim in ISDS is always the applicable international investment agreement. There would always be differences and inconsistencies with an appellate mechanism.
EJIL: Talk! | 18-Feb-2020
As observers of the UNCITRAL process, we watch the debates with great interest, writing about the emergence of different camps, giving perspectives on how the process fits within broader geopolitical developments, and offering potential models for moving forward.
| 31-Jan-2020
We civil society organizations and trade unions from the African continent express our concerns about the proposal presented by the European Union to establish a multilateral investment court and support further reaching reforms of ISDS.
IELP | 27-Jan-2020
The UNCITRAL Working Group III turned squarely to designing permanent institutions: a standing appellate mechanism and a multilateral investment court (MIC).
The Globalist | 27-Jan-2020
The US government used to be the chief proponent of strong investor protection clauses in international trade deals. No longer. What happened?
EJIL: Talk! | 24-Oct-2019
In the end, states have the power to decide collectively what reforms to pursue, in what order and in what form. Individually, they will also have choice about which particular reform options to adopt.
EJIL: Talk! | 24-Oct-2019
This process is likely to end with a plural solution in which both models (ISDS and a permanent court), and possibly others, exist.
