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A case can be processed under the ICSID Additional Facility Rules if one of the parties to the dispute is either not a contracting member state or a national of a contracting member state. However, most cases are arbitrated under the ICSID Convention. [22] [23] [24] Recourse to ICSID conciliation and arbitration is entirely voluntary. However ...
The ICSID website has published awards for most completed arbitrations, [55] and decisions in investor-state arbitrations outside of ICSID are also publicly available online. On 1 April 2014, the UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration entered into force. [56]
International arbitration is an alternative to local court procedures. International arbitration has different rules than domestic arbitration, [6] and has its own non-country-specific standards of ethical conduct. [7] The process may be more limited than typical litigation and forms a hybrid between the common law and civil law legal systems. [8]
The ICSID Convention and ICSID Arbitration Rules are the most commonly-used arbitration rules for the settlement of investment disputes. The Algiers Declaration of 1981 established the Iran-US Claims Tribunal to adjudicate claims of American corporations and individuals in relation to expropriated property during the Islamic revolution in Iran ...
The Philip Morris v.Uruguay case (Spanish: Caso Philip Morris contra Uruguay) was an investor-state dispute settlement case initiated on 19 February 2010 and concluded on 8 July 2016, in which the multinational tobacco company Philip Morris International (PMI), whose head office is located in Lausanne, [1] lodged a complaint against Uruguay that was resolved by international arbitration under ...
The ICSID Review—Foreign Investment Law Journal is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering foreign investment law and international investment dispute settlement. Until 2011 it was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an independent ...
4 Specific to the German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch and other civil codes based on the pandectist tradition; 5 Explicitly rejected by the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts; 6 Specific to Canadian contract law both in Québec and in the country's common law provinces
This section needs to be updated. The reason given is: Current quotes and references (probably) reflect the draft agreement, not the final text agreed to by the Parties; the ISDS mechanism is now Section F of Chapter 8 CETA. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (April 2021)