The Role of Third Party Funders in Investment Disputes In investment disputes, when the claimant decides to pull the trigger and bring forward, one can wonder what his options are to finance the arbitral proceedings. Claimants most often do not have much capital left and are in a distressed financial situation but their claims have […]
Investor-State Arbitration – Claimant’s Counsel’s Critical Choices
Critical Choices when Bringing an Investor-State Arbitration Claimants are faced with many difficult choices when bringing an investor-State arbitration: First, Claimant will have to decide whether to bring a case at all. While this seems straightforward and obvious, it is one of the most difficult choices for a company to make as outright expropriations today […]
What future for investor-State arbitration: The European perspective.
Although the topic is not new, it seems that there are always new things to say about investor-State arbitration when looking at the amount of articles and documents issued and published almost on a daily basis by the EU Commission and Parliament, national governments and parliaments but also academics, practitioners, the media, blogs, etc. This […]
2015 International Arbitration Survey
The “2015 International Arbitration Survey: Improvements and Innovations in International Arbitration”, by White&Case and the University of Queen Mary provides feedback on the latest innovations of international arbitration stakeholders, reviews their perceived effectiveness and tests the viability of selected future developments, on the basis of 763 questionnaire responses and 105 interviews conducted. The main drawback […]
Law of the Sea Dispute Settlement Mechanism
The Law of the Sea dispute settlement mechanism is an area is of great academic, economic, and political interest where the relationship between public and private law is in full evolution and constantly shows new challenges. The purpose of the present lecture and analysis is to create a forum for a reflection on recent developments […]