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Case summary: Windstream Energy LLC v. Canada
ISDS Blog | 4-Jan-2017
Windstream is an American company, which invested in one of the world’s largest offshore wind power parks, to be located in Lake Ontario.
keywords: Canada , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , US
Venezuelan assesses ICSID’s decision over Tenaris-Talta case
El Universal | 2-Jan-2017
The Venezuelan Solicitor General’s Office (PGR) said that a request has been analyzed to overturn the arbitrary award issued by the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (Icsid)
keywords: ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS , natural resources , Venezuela
Venezuela evalúa decisión arbitral del Ciadi en caso de siderúrgicas Tenaris y Talta
Aporrea | 2-Jan-2017
La República Bolivariana de Venezuela evalúa todas las vías jurídicas disponibles con respecto al laudo dictaminado el pasado lunes por el tribunal del Ciadi sobre el caso de la siderúrgica Tenaris y Talta.
keywords: ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS , natural resources , Venezuela
Investigation: As Colombia pushes for cancer drug price-cut and considers compulsory licensing, Novartis responds with quiet filing of an investment treaty notice
IA Reporter | 2-Jan-2017
Novartis lodged a formal notice of dispute under the Switzerland-Colombia BIT.
keywords: Colombia , intellectual property , investor-state disputes | ISDS , medicines , Switzerland
Venezuela loses annulment of Tidewater expropriation ICSID award
Latin American Herald Tribune | 2-Jan-2017
The annulment committee formed by the World Bank’s ICSID has ruled that Venezuela must pay oil services company Tidewater $37 million for the expropriation of its ships and rigs in 2009.
keywords: Barbados , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , US , Venezuela
The German Constitutional Court judgment in the Vattenfall case: lessons for the ECT Vattenfall arbitral tribunal
Kluwer Arbitration Blog | 30-Dec-2016
This dispute and final judgment provide some valuable lessons for the arbitral tribunal in the ECT Vattenfall dispute.
keywords: ECT , energy , Germany , investor-state disputes | ISDS
The year 2016 for India – of new beginnings and not-so-happy endings?
Kluwer Arbitration Blog | 29-Dec-2016
While India has been reshaping its arbitration laws and investment climate, the jury is still out on whether these measures will actually help create a more secure legal environment for investors.
keywords: Brazil , BRICS , India , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform
Uruguay vs. Philip Morris: Triunfo de David sobre Goliat
Prensa Latina | 27-Dec-2016
El triunfo del Gobierno de Uruguay ante la demanda establecida por la tabacalera transnacional Philip Morris constituyó en el año que termina un fuerte espaldarazo a las autoridades del pequeño país sudamericano en su campaña contra el tabaquismo.
keywords: health , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Uruguay
Multilateral investment court would impede measures on climate change
FFII | 23-Dec-2016
Due to inherent systemic issues with specialised and supranational courts, a multilateral investment court would create a high risk on expansive interpretations of investors’ rights.
keywords: EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform
6 ways we could improve NAFTA for working people
AFL-CIO | 21-Dec-2016
It is important that everyday working people’s perspectives lead the debate, starting with how to rewrite NAFTA.
keywords: alternatives , human rights , investor-state disputes | ISDS , labour | workers’ rights , NAFTA | USMCA , US