Investment Treaty News

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Screening the Screeners: The New EU Foreign Investment Regulation meets the old-generation investment treaties

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The Unregulated Rise of Award Monetization

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Pricing the Energy Transition: A tribunal decided to discount an award based on the regulatory uncertainty brought by the energy transition

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Climate Considerations in Environmental Impact Assessments: Strengthening state defences in investment arbitration

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Chabahar’s Exit Structure and the Unexamined BIT Question

News in Brief

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United States Declines to Renew USMCA at First Joint Review, Triggering Annual Reviews

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UNCITRAL Finalizes Advisory Centre Statute and Adopts New ISDS Procedural Provisions

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Singapore Bids to Host the Multilateral Investment Tribunal Under Negotiation at UNCITRAL

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US Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Spain and Russia, Cementing Award Enforcement in US Courts

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UK Supreme Court Rules States Cannot Invoke Immunity Against Registration of ICSID Awards

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World Investment Report 2026: FDI Recovers to USD 1.6 Trillion but Concentration Deepens

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ExxonMobil Serves ECT Notice of Dispute on the European Union Over Carbon Capture Obligations

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European Commission Sends EU-Indonesia Trade and Investment Protection Agreements for Signature

Awards and Decisions

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Climate accountability in the fossil fuel industry: ICSID tribunal orders Niko to compensate BAPEX for the 2005 Chattak blowouts, including carbon seq...

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English court sets aside in part an investment treaty award in favour of a Samsung C&T shareholder

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The Hague Court of Appeal Annuls Intra-EU BIT Awards Ex Officio and Enjoins the Investors From Bringing New Arbitration Claims under the Treaty

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ICSID tribunal rejects Honduras’ attempt to condition CAFTA-DR consent on the exhaustion of local remedies

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Páramos protection-related case decided in favour of Colombia, this time

Another tribunal to reject the Achmea-based jurisdictional objection