Articles in English
IIED | 22-Apr-2021
It’s time to reconsider investor-state dispute settlement; inaction risks rising costs of shifting from fossil fuels to green alternatives.
JDsupra | 22-Apr-2021
Indigenous populations often live in territories that are earmarked for construction projects, which may lead to inevitable friction with state governments and subsequently, developers and investors.
Reuters | 21-Apr-2021
Miner Alamos Gold said its Netherlands units will file an investment treaty claim exceeding $1 billion against Turkey for "unfair and inequitable treatment" with its gold mining project.
International Arbitration | 20-Apr-2021
One of the most significant early proposals for a multilateral agreement to protect private foreign investment was launched in 1957 by groups of European business people, and lawyers.
ILA Reporter | 20-Apr-2021
The unusual status of foreign investors in international law is no accident, but rather the result of a “world-making project realized by a coalition of business leaders, bankers, and their lawyers in the 1950s and 1960s”.
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Euractiv | 19-Apr-2021
German energy company Uniper has confirmed its intention to sue the Dutch government over the country’s planned coal phase-out.
The Guardian | 19-Apr-2021
Energy conglomerates have recourse to special courts and legal regimes that they helped design – and they won’t go down without a fight.
The Baltic Times | 19-Apr-2021
The ICSID in the case Eugene Kazmin v. Latvia issued its Award discontinuing the arbitration and ordering the Claimant, Ukrainian citizen Kazmin, to bear the costs of the proceeding.
iPolitics | 16-Apr-2021
NAFTA-investor lawsuits have cost Canadian taxpayers more than $376 million over the last 25 years, and could cost even more in the years ahead.
CCPA | 15-Apr-2021
The removal of investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) from the renegotiated NAFTA was a critical victory but Canada, the US and Mexico continue to be enmeshed in an extensive web of bilateral and regional accords containing ISDS.
