Friday, January 4, 2013

New Issue: ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal

The latest issue of the ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal (Vol. 27, no. 2, Fall 2012) is out. Contents include:
  • Case Comments
    • Hans van Houtte & Bridie McAsey, Abaclat and others v Argentine Republic: ICSID, the BIT and Mass Claims
    • Andrea Marco Steingruber, Abaclat and Others v Argentine Republic: Consent in Large-scale Arbitration Proceedings
    • Céline Lévesque, Abaclat and Others v Argentine Republic: The Definition of Investment
    • Samuel Wordsworth, Abaclat and Others v Argentine Republic: Jurisdiction, Admissibility and Pre-conditions to Arbitration
    • Donald Francis Donovan, Abaclat and others v Argentine Republic: As a Collective Claims Proceeding
    • Tony Cole, ICS Inspection and Control Services Limited (United Kingdom) v The Argentine Republic
    • Patricia Nacimiento & Sven Lange, White Industries Australia Limited v The Republic of India
  • Articles
    • Mark Feldman, Setting Limits on Corporate Nationality Planning in Investment Treaty Arbitration
    • Julien Fouret, Stay(ing) on Track or Falling off the Edge: The Absence of Legal Security in the Ad Hoc Committees’ Decisions under Article 52(5) of the ICSID Convention
    • Mark Kantor, Little Has Changed in the New US Model Bilateral Investment Treaty
  • Notes
    • Eric De Brabandere & Julia Lepeltak, Third-Party Funding in International Investment Arbitration
    • Joongi Kim, A Pivot to Asia in Investor–State Arbitration: The Coming Emergence of Asian Claimants
    • Jan Kleinheisterkamp, European Policy Space in International Investment Law
    • Felipe Mutis Téllez, Conditions and Criteria For The Protection of Legitimate Expectations Under International Investment Law: 2012 ICSID Review Student Writing Competition