Sentences with phrase «public investors arbitration»

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However, nowadays investors will almost always conclude a contract with the State if it concerns public services, works, etc. furthermore, a lot of the cases that go before ISDS could also be brought under commercial arbitration because they often concern the revocation of some form of license, subsidy, etc, that formed the basis of the investment.

Ultimately, the reappointment process itself, and the way it helps the system of investor - State arbitration to adapt to the evolving expectations of the international community, can therefore be a source of legitimacy in aligning the decision - making of arbitrators with the wider public and its values, including the rule of law and democracy.

Helping to align investment arbitration with the functioning and the results of other systems of public law adjudication can contribute to forming an emerging consensus on the many contested issues in international investment law and afford legitimacy to the dispute settlement activity of investor - State arbitral tribunals.

Gonzalez's panel, entitled «The Contribution of Latin America to International Law,» will address how investor - state arbitration awards involving Latin American countries have contributed to the formulation or evolution of international law, and how such evolution may impact public policy issues in Latin America.

The successful transaction also marks an end all claims relating to a long - running investor - state international arbitration between Algeria and GTH, in which Akin Gump were instructed, which was administered by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, as well as ending various disputes between OTA and a number of public entities over tax claims before the Algerian courts.

He is highly experienced in public international law disputes and investor - state arbitration cases, with past roles including acting as part of the Law Commission of India's study group into the Indian Model Bilateral Investment Treaty.

Given their established reputation as leading Counsel in public international law, members of 11KBW are regularly instructed to act for and advise both claimants and respondents in State - State and investor - State arbitrations.

His practice experience includes the litigation and arbitration of disputes arising in the shipping, banking, insurance and commodity trading sectors and also extends to public law disputes, sovereign immunity defences and investor protection cases in public international law.

Lluís specialises in advising on commercial and investor - state arbitration, investment protection and management of political risk, as well as on the public international law aspects of transnational infrastructure projects, boundary and territorial disputes, treaty law and international environmental law.

The Mauritius Convention further underscores investment law's public law nature and breaks with the so far still dominant conceptualization of investor - State dispute settlement as a form of commercial arbitration and private justice.

Investor - State arbitrations regularly involve public law disputes about the scope and limits of host State regulatory powers, including, for example, disputes concerning limits of emergency powers, regulatory oversight over public utility companies, control of harmful substances, the protection of cultural property, or the implementation of non-discrimination policies.

It is widely expected that investor - State arbitration should fulfill a role similar to that of judicial review under domestic administrative and constitutional law, subjecting host State public authority to an understanding of the rule of law that focuses chiefly on restrictions in the relations between public and private actors.

Thus, instead of changing and restricting the institution of investor - State arbitration in order to align it more with public law values, that same goal can be achieved by bringing public law thinking into the existing structures of investor - State arbitration.

Diego has advised in matters related to sovereign debt, financial restructuring, international financial litigation, public procurement, investor - State international arbitration, commercial arbitration and bilateral and multilateral agreements negotiations.

In other words: Public law rationales should guide the practice of investor - State arbitration.

Yet, the way investor - State arbitration is practiced does not always align with the public law values of equality, predictability, transparency, and democratic control of decision - making.

Lead Counsel in a large number of BIT / investor - State arbitrations, of which a few are in the public domain, including:

Investors generally have not been able to use the public court system for their disputes with their stockbrokers since 1987, when the Supreme Court ruled in Shearson v. McMahon that a brokerage firm could force customers to agree to arbitration.

Said «Christine Hines, consumer and civil justice counsel at watchdog group Public Citizen, which organized a public campaign to oppose the Schwab waivers and mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, «It's a huge victory for invePublic Citizen, which organized a public campaign to oppose the Schwab waivers and mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, «It's a huge victory for invepublic campaign to oppose the Schwab waivers and mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, «It's a huge victory for investors.

Her expertise in public international law and investor - state dispute resolution brings an enhanced dimension to our offering for clients and her vast international arbitration experience fits perfectly with our rapidly growing practice across the Asia - Pacific region.»

Over the past few years, investment arbitration (also known as «Investor State Dispute Settlement», or «ISDS»), has captured the public's attention like never before.

Our public international law practice includes litigation before the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea, representation in inter-State arbitration under the auspices of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and in other international settings, Investor - State Arbitration before the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Dispute (ICSID), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the other principal arbitral fora around the world, and in litigation before the national courts of the United States, France and Belgium.