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Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 9, Issue 1, April 2018

Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship journal on international investment law and policy.

By Marina Ruete, Suzy H. Nikièma, Laurens Ankersmit, Lise Johnson, Jesse Coleman, Brooke Güven, Gladwin Issac, Trishna Menon, Bettina Müller, Mintewab Abebe, Claudia Arietti on April 24, 2018

Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship journal on international investment law and policy.

Featured articles:

  • Achmea: The Beginning of the End for ISDS in and with Europe? By Laurens Ankersmit
  • Withdrawal of Consent to Investor–State Arbitration and Termination of Investment Treaties, by Lise Johnson, Jesse Coleman and Brooke Güven
  • An interview with Luis Guillermo Vélez – Director-General of Colombia's National Agency for the Legal Defense of the State

Summaries and analysis of recent arbitration awards and decisions:

  • ICSID tribunal finds Latvia breached FET under Latvia–Lithuania BIT (UAB E Energija v. Republic of Latvia, ICSID Case No. ARB/12/33), by Gladwin Issac
  • ICSID tribunal declines jurisdiction: Timor-Leste never consented to ICSID arbitration (Lighthouse Corporation Pty Ltd and Lighthouse Corporation Ltd, IBC v. Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, ICSID Case No. ARB/15/2), by Trishna Menon
  • ICSID tribunal dismisses expropriation case against Venezuela on jurisdictional grounds (Fábrica de Vidrios Los Andes, C.A. and Owens-Illinois de Venezuela, C.A. v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, ICSID Case No. ARB/12/21), by Bettina Müller
  • Solar energy claims brought by German investors against Czechia are dismissed (Jürgen Wirtgen, Stefan Wirtgen, Gisela Wirtgen and JSW Solar (zwei) GmbH & Co. KG v. Czech Republic, PCA Case No. 2014-03), by Mintewab Abebe
  • Venezuela held liable for unlawful expropriation of fertilizer plants (Koch Minerals Sárl and Koch Nitrogen International Sárl v. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, ICSID Case No. ARB/11/19), by Claudia Arietti

Visit www.iisd.org/itn for back issues of ITN, as well as news updates.

Newsletter details

Topic
Trade
Investment Law & Policy
Focus area
Economies
Publisher
IISD
Copyright
IISD, 2018