This overview illustrates that there is a gap in our knowledge of how domestic courts handle investor-state disputes. As it turns out, some foreign investors use the domestic courts of the host State prior to initiating investment treaty arbitration. Subject matter-wise these cases are very...

In this column, we will focus on procedural developments in recent investment arbitration cases, relying on publicly available interim decisions and final awards, handed down in the period of 1 January 2019 - 31 March 2020. Given the large number of new cases, decisions and awards, we decided to...

The ability to ensure compliance with investor-state arbitral awards is often regarded as one of the strengths of the international investment regime. Yet there have been few systematic studies of compliance to assess the extent to which states have actually complied with adverse investor-state...