investment | BITs
IIED | 18-Oct-2016
There is considerable room to rethink substantive norms and dispute settlement arrangements.
IOL | 18-Oct-2016
Cabinet’s endorsement of the draft International Arbitration Bill in April this year gave a welcome indication that South Africa would soon provide investors with one of the essential tools for operating in the modern global economy.
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investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
ISDS reform ,
South Africa ,
UNCITRAL
KWM | 17-Oct-2016
The viability of the Filipino nickel industry is in a state of flux following President Rodrigo Duterte’s national audit of the country’s forty mines. Lawyers explore ISDS options.
The Hill Times | 12-Oct-2016
The Liberals’ relative flexibility on investor-state dispute systems and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, and an expected visit to India by the PM, may help to move talks along.
ALAI | 7-Oct-2016
Ante la indiscutible proliferación de acuerdos de carácter multilateral y bilateral destinados a proteger las operaciones de la inversión extranjera, muchas veces a contracorriente de los intereses de los gobiernos receptores de capital y de las comunidades, resulta imprescindible analizar el contenido e implicaciones desde el enfoque de la sociedad civil.
Lexology | 3-Oct-2016
The President of Romania agreed to submit to the Romanian Parliament draft legislation approving termination of 22 bilateral investment treaties that Romania concluded with other EU Member States.
Politico | 30-Sep-2016
The European Commission today ramped up infringement procedures against Austria, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia and Sweden to push them toward scraping their bilateral investment treaties with other EU nations.
I-ARB Africa | 29-Sep-2016
This surge in the ratification of “Intra-African” BITs is part of the Moroccan “South-South Partnership” strategy
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BITs (texts of) ,
Burkina Faso ,
Guinea-Bissau ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
Morocco ,
Senegal
Lexicology | 28-Sep-2016
A discussion of some general distinctions between invesment treaty protections and political risk insurance.
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investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Live Mint | 28-Sep-2016
On Canada’s insistance, India is expected to sign a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with Canada based on an old text, not its new model BIT. The old text contains contentious provisions such as the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism.
