European Union moves swiftly toward adopting regulation on screening foreign direct investment

After sixth ratification, the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) to enter into force on December 30, 2018

European Union signs trade and investment agreements with Singapore; EU–Japan EPA to enter into force on February 2019

UNCITRAL Working Group III decides that multilateral reform of ISDS desirable; governments to submit proposals to develop work plan for reform

Judges of the International Court of Justice decide to no longer participate as arbitrators in ISDS cases

Negotiations of a legally binding instrument on business and human rights continue at the United Nations

Achmea judgment analyzed and FET claim granted in ECT case against Spain

Kenya prevails in BIT arbitration: British investors’ claims dismissed due to the absence of environmental impact assessment

ICSID tribunal finds Hungary in breach of expropriation clause in France–Hungary BIT

Tribunal finds Costa Rica’s measures to protect the environment did not breach FET or its expropriation obligations under CAFTA-DR

Egypt found liable for the shut-down of an electricity plant during the 2011 uprising

ICSID tribunal accepts jurisdiction over investor’s claim under United Kingdom–Czechia BIT but rules in favour of Czechia