ISDS reform
South Centre | 12-Nov-2025
This policy brief examines an innovative judicial approach by the Colombian Constitutional Court in response to an increase in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) claims.
Zawya | 28-Oct-2025
Held the first meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Agreement on Promotion, Protection and Guarantee of Investments.
EJIL: Talk! | 23-Oct-2025
During the week of 22 September 2025, States once again met in Vienna under Working Group III of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) to deliberate reforms to investor–State dispute settlement.
ISDS América Latina | 13-Oct-2025
Durante más de dos décadas, Argentina fue el país más demandado del mundo por corporaciones extranjeras. Bajo el mecanismo ISDS, empresas transnacionales llevaron al Estado a tribunales internacionales privados por medidas tomadas en contextos de crisis económica y social. Actualmente el país enfrenta 65 demandas, con reclamos por más de USD 36.800 millones. El país ya fue obligado a pagar USD 9.330 millones, una cifra que duplica el presupuesto educativo anual. Los sectores más afectados: energía, finanzas, agua y residuos.
Norton Rose Fulbright | 28-Jul-2025
We consider the key changes for investors and how the treaty reflects India’s developing approach to the balancing of its regulatory rights against those of private investors.
Council of Foreign Relations | 10-Jul-2025
Although fossil fuel phase-outs are critical to achieving global climate goals, protections granted through Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions to foreign-owned coal operations expose governments to costly litigation, threatening to thwart state action.
Seneweb | 24-Jun-2025
l’État cherche à rééquilibrer ses partenariats économiques, notamment dans les secteurs extractifs et stratégiques, les limites juridiques imposées par les traités d’investissement deviennent de plus en plus visibles.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer | 20-Jun-2025
The treaty is a prime illustration of India’s post-2016 BIT policy in action and follows India’s Model BIT closely.
The Economic Times | 6-Jun-2025
The BIT has calibrated the Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism with mandatory exhaustion of local remedies, thereby, providing investors alternate dispute resolution mechanism.
Global Development Policy Center | 28-May-2025
To accomplish the removal of ISDS efficiently, G7 countries, or some subset of them, could lead the development of a plurilateral agreement to alter all IIAs amongst the parties that sign up to it.
