Public International Law Notes

UK Supreme Court confirms States party to the
ICSID Convention cannot rely on immunity to avoid recognition of ICSID awards

Bahrain Ratifies Bilateral Investment Treaty with UAE

EU signs the Mauritius Convention on Transparency in Investor-State Arbitration

The European Union signed the United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration on 2 July 2024 after the Council of …

UK announces withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty

On 22 February 2024, the UK Government announced that the UK will withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). The withdrawal will take effect one year …

Surge in cases as ICSID releases its 2023 caseload statistics

On 1 February 2024, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) released its caseload statistics for the 2023 calendar year, …

9th annual EFILA Conference on 25 April 2024 in Frankfurt: New frontiers in international investment arbitration

We are pleased to share with you the details of the upcoming Conference of the European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration (EFILA), taking …

Novel decision by English Court on state immunity and the enforcement of ICSID awards

The European Commission's Non-Paper on Model Clauses for Member States' BITs with Third Countries

In October last year, the European Commission released a Non-Paper on Model Clauses with Annotations for EU Member States' negotiation of bilateral …

ISDS policy trend round up for 2023

What are the trends in investor state dispute resolution at a macro level that have developed over 2023? We have put together a round-up below. …

The European Commission proposes withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty

On 7 July 2023, the European Commission formally proposed a coordinated European Union withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), one of the …

THE MODERNISATION OF THE ENERGY CHARTER TREATY – SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING NEW?

CEDR PRODUCES GUIDE TO INVESTOR-STATE MEDIATION