Wednesday, October 8, 2025

New Issue: Journal of International Dispute Settlement

The latest issue of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Vol. 16, no. 3, September 2025) is out. Contents include:
  • Special Issue: Current Challenges in International Investment Law
    • Esmé Shirlow, Transparency in investment treaty arbitration: past, present, and future
  • Special issue: Justice Post-ISDS
    • Francesca Farrington & Nevena Jevremović, Between a rock and a hard place: the impact of replacing or abolishing ISDS on investment-affected parties
  • Special Issue: Translucent Justice
    • Walter Arévalo-Ramírez & Andrés Rousset-Siri, Undermining the authority of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: cases of state’s weaponization of the value of transparency
    • Suhong Yang & Shuai Guo, Selection process of judges and members at international courts and tribunals: in search of efficient transparency
    • Gautam Mohanty & Alexandros Bakos, Revisiting transparency standards in investor–state dispute settlement vis-à-vis third-party funding: how much transparency is too much transparency?
    • Elena Abrusci, More transparency on regional human rights courts? What we (still) need to know to understand and access regional human rights justice
    • Marco Dimetto, Inscrutable procedural orders: two models of transparency in international dispute settlement (ICSID and ICJ)
    • Thomas Vogt-Geisse, Three visions of transparency in international adjudication
    • Letizia Lo Giacco, Rethinking transparency through the public–private prism: the case of the ICC–NGOs partnership
    • Ezgi Özlü, Translucent justice: strategic transparency and the legitimacy of the ECtHR
    • Hemi Mistry, Transparency as performance: the ‘As Is’ and ‘As If’ worlds of international adjudication
    • Fenghua Li, Transparency as a pathway to align ICSID arbitration with sustainable development
    • Irene Miano, De facto transparency? Investigating the practice of the International Court of Justice
    • Danae Georgoula & Lan Ngoc Nguyen, Judicial reasoning as a mask: rationalizing the transparency of the law of the sea tribunals
    • Carolina Mancuso, Procedural rules and judicial practices: a good or bad match for transparency?
    • Bruno Biazatti, The backlog-driven reform of the Initial Review of petitions in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
  • Editorial
    • Cédric Dupont & Thomas Schultz, Trump’s tariffs: from a trade problem into an investment problem?
  • Articles
    • Georgios Dimitropoulos, Investment law and the digital economy
    • George Kahale, The Mobil and Conoco cases against Venezuela: the good, the bad and the ugly
    • Yun Zhao & Yanru Chen, The evolving lex mercatoria: a game-changer for transparency in international commercial arbitration
    • Jay Tseng, Insolvency of a party in international arbitration: considerations on staying arbitration proceedings
    • Eleonora Castro, Clarifying the clean hands doctrine under general international law
    • Nektarios Papadimos, A golden mean approach to independence and impartiality in investment arbitration
    • Zelin Li, Inter-court competition in non-adjudicative activities: a case study of the International Court of Justice presidential speeches, 1991–2022
    • Daria Levina, The myth of instant success: a historical account of the Commercial Court of England and Wales
  • Current Developments
    • Gabrielle Marceau & Maria George, Trade, climate and differentiation: an analysis of the interaction between the ‘Principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities’ and the WTO agreement
    • Nikiforos Panagis, Held in suspense: the past, present, and future of the suspension of proceedings at the International Court of Justice
    • Guang Ma & Hong Wu, The proliferation of unilateral trade measures and the crisis of the multilateral trading system