Denial of justice in international arbitration concerns acts or omissions of a State’s judiciary for which a State may be internationally liable. Although the judiciary is a functionally independent body from a State’s executive and government, it is still a State’s organ. As a result, States may be held internationally liable for the acts and […]
Denial of Justice in Investment Arbitration – Claims Commission, L.FAY H. NEER AND PAULINE NEER (USA) V. UNITED MEXICAN STATES
The famous case Neer v. United Mexican States set a standard of treatment with respect to denial of justice, fair and equitable treatment and the minimum standard of treatment in international law, which is still relevant and largely applied and relied upon today in investment arbitrations. This decision was rendered on 15 October 1926 by […]
Rectification of ICSID Awards
The rectification of an award under Article 49(2) of the ICSID Convention is a remedy for inadvertent omissions and minor technical errors in an award. It enables the arbitral tribunal to correct mistakes that may have occurred in the award’s drafting in a non-bureaucratic and expeditious manner. Such corrections are provided for in Article 49(2) of the ICSID Convention: […]
Limits to the Police Powers Doctrine
According to the police powers doctrine, host States may enforce their laws against the foreign investors without being liable of any wrongdoing. For example, a host State may revoke a concession granted to an investor if the latter does not comply with laws of the former. The tribunal in Quiborax v. Bolivia agreed with the […]
Alejandra Delfin | El recurso de nulidad y la recepción de la jurisprudencia en la Decisión de los Comités Ad Hoc
[Revista de Derecho Administrativo (ReDA) #84, Ed. Lexis Nexis – Abeledo Perrot. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Pages 1817/1829. December 2012. ISSN 1851-0590] 1.- Introducción Mucho se ha discutido acerca de lo que acontece en torno a las demandas presentadas por inversores extranjeros contra la República Argentina ante el CIADI, enmarcadas en los Tratados Bilaterales de Promoción […]