...ICSID Convention, while other BITs contain ICSID arbitration provisions that omit the application of the ICSID Convention (such provisions simply refer the dispute to ICSID). Importantly, ICSID can and has...
...of Investment Disputes (ICSID) released its most recently updated proposals for amendment of the ICSID Rules.[1] According to ICSID, the proposed changes are “the most comprehensive in ICSID’s history, encompassing...
...2020), available at https://member-delosdr.org/video-tagtime-meg-kinnear-on-tracking-the-evolution-of-the-icsid-rules/. [2] ICSID Webinar: The Art and Science of a Virtual Hearing (May 4, 2020), available at https://icsid.worldbank.org/resources/multimedia/webinar-art-and-science-virtual-hearing. *This post is part of a series summarising episodes...
...of Investment Disputes (ICSID) rules. More broadly, I would like to get her take on ICSID’s recent activity and her thoughts for its even increased importance in the international dispute...
...signing the ICSID Convention itself constitutes a submission to the enforcing courts’ jurisdiction. We contend that signing an arbitration agreement (e.g. referring to ICSID arbitration in a bilateral or multilateral...
...enforcement of the award rendered in the ICSID arbitration SOABI v. Senegal. ICSID is an international institution created by the Washington Convention (the “Convention” or the “ICSID Convention”) on March...
Author: Anibal Sabater* Published: June 2006 Topics: Investment Disputes ICSID Description: The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (“ICSID”) is an international agency created by the World Bank which...
...framework, including ICSID’s framework, inadvertently incentivizes state corruption. As these critics point out, ICSID arbitrators have never reached the merits of a case involving corruption; thus, states can immunize themselves...
Author: Giuliana Canè* Published: June 2006 Topics: Commercial Disputes Investment Disputes Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Enforceability ICSID Description: In today’s free market economy the settlement of disputes between parties engaged...
...(“Convention” or “ICSID Convention”) do not distinguish between anti-suit injunctions and other provisional measures. The ICSID Convention does not provide for a specific rule regarding anti-suit injunctions. Article 47 of...
...Gaëtan Verhoosel, Keynote Address – Uncanny: Investment Arbitration’s Three Tales of Trouble (Vol. 30(3) July 2020) Damon Vis-Dunbar, ICSID Under the New Rules: A Conversation with Meg Kinnear, ICSID Secretary-General...
Author: Anoosha Boralessa* Published: December 2005 Topics: Investment Disputes ICSID Parties Capacity of Parties Description: I. INTRODUCTION “[A]rbitration claims to be free. The will of the parties . . ....