Sunday, May 30, 2021

New Issue: ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal

The latest issue of the ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal (Vol. 35, nos. 1/2, Winter/Spring 2020) is out. Contents include:
  • Lecture
    • Teresa Cheng, The Search for Order within Chaos in the Evolution of ISDS 
  • Case Comments
    • Debadatta Bose, David R Aven v Costa Rica: The Confluence of Corporations, Public International Law and International Investment Law
    • Eric De Brabandere, Mathias Kruck and others v Spain
    • Barton Legum & Marie-Hélène Ludwig, B-Mex, LLC and others v United Mexican States: A Defect in the Notice of Intent is not a Bar to Jurisdiction under NAFTA
    • Chiann Bao, RSM v Saint Lucia: With Prejudice—The Unlikely Death Knell
  • Notes
    • Gracious Avayiwoe, The Republic of Ghana and Bilateral Investment Treaties: A Burgeoning Expert? 
  • Articles
    • Loris Marotti, The Proliferation of Joint Interpretation Clauses in New International Investment Agreements: A Mixed Blessing? 
    • Barnali Choudhury, Investor Obligations for Human Rights 
    • Farouk El-Hosseny & Patrick Devine, Contributory Fault under International Law: A Gateway for Human Rights in ISDS? 
    • Orhan Bayrak, Economic Crises and the Fundamental Change of Circumstances in Investment Arbitration 
    • David Khachvani, Non-Compensable Regulation versus Regulatory Expropriation: Are Climate Change Regulations Compensable? 
  • Case Comments
    • Guled Yusuf & Godwin Tan, United Utilities (Tallinn) BV v Estonia: ICSID Arbitration after Achmea: the Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning? 
    • Mélida Hodgson & Edelí Rivera, UP and CD Holding Internationale v Hungary: Achmea is Not the End of Intra-EU ICSID Arbitration
    • Ian A Laird & Rina M Gashaw, Besserglik v Mozambique: A Lesson in Returning to the Basics
  • Notes
    • Chester Brown, Mark McNeill, & Jeremy K Sharpe, First Impressions of a Virtual Hearing at ICSID 
    • Chen Yu, Amicus Curiae Participation in ISDS: A Caution Against Political Intervention in Treaty Interpretation
    • Yilin Wang, The Fight between Interpretation and Modification: A Critique of Sanum v Laos 
  • Articles
    • Zareen Qayyum, The Enforceability of Proposed Reforms to Investor–State Dispute Settlement 
    • Crina Baltag, The Role of Amici Curiae in Light of Recent Developments in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Legitimizing the System?
    • George A Bermann, Understanding ICSID Article 54 
    • Lauren Mandell, The Trump Administration’s Impact on US Investment Policy 
    • Chester Brown & Patrick Still, The Status of the Testimony of the Non-Appearing Witness in International Arbitration