ISDS reform
The Express Tribune | 10-Dec-2025
UN prepares for key ISDS reforms, OIC countries strive for balance between investor protection and sovereignty.
EJIL: Talk! | 28-Nov-2025
One of the most notable proposals identifies an investor’s initiation of arbitration as implied consent to a tribunal’s jurisdiction over counterclaims.
ISDS impacts | 20-Nov-2025
For over 20 years, Argentina had the world’s highest number of investor claims before international arbitration tribunals. It also has the highest number of bilateral investment treaties in force in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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.