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- Investment Law and Arbitration
- Investor-State Dispute Resolution
- Ad hoc Arbitration
- Arbitration
- Backlash in Investment Arbitration
- Bilateral Conventions of Establishment
- Conciliation
- Mediation
- Settlement Agreement
- Procedural Issues
- Abuse of Process
- Admissibility
- Amicus Curiae
- Annulment Tribunal
- Annulment of ICSID awards
- Setting-aside of non-ICSID awards
- Contrary to Public Policy
- Domestic Courts
- Validity of the Arbitration Agreement
- Anti-Suit Injunctions
- Applicable Law
- Bifurcation
- Claim Manifestly without Legal Merits
- Closing of the Proceedings
- Confidentiality
- Conflicts of Interests
- Consolidation
- Contract Interpretation
- Cooling-off Period
- Correction and Revision of Awards
- Counterclaims
- Decision
- Discontinuance of the Proceedings
- Document Production
- Enforcement
- Estoppel
- Joinder / Intervention
- Jurisdiction
- Calvo Clause
- Competence-Competence
- Consent to Arbitration
- Exhaustion of Local Remedies
- Fork in the Road
- Intra-EU Claims as an Objection to Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction Ratione Materiae
- Jurisdiction Ratione Personae
- Jurisdiction Ratione Temporis
- Prima Facie Test
- Treaty Claim / Contract Claim
- Waiver of Local Remedies
- Language of the Proceedings
- Mass Claims
- Parallel Proceedings
- Precedent
- Proof / Evidence
- Provisional Measures
- Res Judicata
- Seat of Arbitration
- Standing
- Stay of Proceedings
- Summary Procedure
- Transparency
- Trigger Letter / Notice of Intent
- Withdrawal from Arbitral Proceedings
- Witness
- Investment
- Investor
- Standards of Protection
- Attribution
- Complete and Unconditional Legal Protection
- Due Diligence
- Effective Means to Assert Claims and Enforce Rights
- Enrichment without Cause
- Expropriation
- Compensation for Lawful Expropriation
- Creeping Expropriation
- Direct Expropriation
- Due Process in Expropriation
- Indirect Expropriation
- Judicial Expropriation
- Nationalisation or Measure tantamount to Expropriation
- Non-Discrimination
- Prompt, Adequate and Effective Compensation
- Regulatory Expropriation
- Right to Regulate
- Fair and Equitable Treatment
- Full Protection and Security
- Minimum Standard of Treatment
- Most Favoured Nation
- National Treatment
- Obligations of the Host State
- Performance Requirements
- Promotion of Investment
- Protection from Arbitrary and Discriminatory Treatment
- Similarity / In Like Circumstances
- Stabilisation Clause
- Transfers
- Umbrella Clause
- Defences and Exceptions
- Bona Fide Principle / Good faith
- Corruption
- Countermeasures
- Denial of Benefits
- Emergency Clauses
- Force Majeure
- Human Rights Counterclaims
- Investor's Conduct
- Necessity
- Police Powers
- Provisional Application of Treaty
- Public Procurement
- Reservations
- Termination of Treaty
- Transnational Public Policy
- Treaty Exclusions
- Treaty-Shopping
- Unclean Hands
- Thematic Issues
- Investor-State Dispute Resolution