...settlement when the same state actions that are the subject of a claim (e.g., expropriation of profitable investments) may have deprived the investor of the financial means to launch an...
...control measures on various grounds: inter alia, the abuse of process, indirect expropriation, and normative stability as host-States’ obligation. The two tribunals were aware that much was at stake for...
...COMMISA with no forum for its claims which was imperative and amounted to uncompensated governmental expropriation which constituted unconstitutional taking in the U.S. COMMENT For reasons that follow, discussed...
...in their bilateral or multilateral investment treaties. If a host state fails to observe its obligation, such as expropriation, violation of fair and equitable treatment and most-favored-nation treatment, foreign investors...
...estoppel, mitigation of harm, ratification, and equity. Some of the neighboring doctrines in investment arbitration include legitimate expectations, fair and equitable treatment, full protection and security, non-discrimination, and non-expropriation. One...
...expropriation of their assets. In this background, Ecuador raised a counterclaim alleging breaches of Ecuadorian environmental law by the investors’ acts of polluting soil and groundwater. In both the cases,...
...provide a standard of protection, such as the obligation to afford fair and equitable treatment or the obligation not to engage in illegal expropriation. Yet whether there is an expropriable...
...decision, Chinese claimants brought an expropriation claim, and respondent Mongolia challenged the jurisdiction of the tribunal. The tribunal declined jurisdiction, and the claimants sought annulment of this jurisdictional award. It...
...Especially regarding the consistency and clarity of legal standards—such as fair and equitable treatment (FET) and expropriation—the reform attempts regarding the ECT and the concerns raised by the Working Group...
...Yukos’ total demise have been described by its former owners as “the biggest political expropriation in history,” and, not surprisingly, have given rise to “history’s biggest arbitrations,” with the Russian...
...intricate and industry-specific and may encompass issues related to community rights (particularly those of indigenous peoples), environmental concerns, mineral resource nationalization or expropriation, or breaches of financing agreements—including pricing, supply,...
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