The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in Investor-State Disputes
History, Evolution and Future
Samenvatting
About this book:
The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in Investor-State Disputes: History, Evolution and Future is the first consolidated analysis of how the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) has informed the interpretation, application and development of international investment law and the resolution of investor-State disputes. Over the past several decades, the VCLT - the ‘treaty on treaties' - has achieved a rich and nuanced track record of influence in international investment law, including in the context of investment treaty arbitration. This book demonstrates how approaches to key issues of treaty law in investment treaty arbitration diverge or converge from the VCLT and approaches of other international courts, as well as the lessons that investment treaty arbitration could derive from - or even offer for - the interpretation and application of the VCLT rules in other settings.
What's in this book:
The editors have curated diverse and thought-provoking contributions from around the world to offer a variety of perspectives on the nexus between the VCLT, international investment law and investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS). By revisiting the role that the VCLT has played in the development of this field of law, this invaluable book unlocks insights into how the VCLT might be used to support international investment law into the future, including its development, reform and use for the resolution of the next generation of investor-State disputes. The insights and analyses contained in the book's twenty-one chapters consider aspects such as the role of the VCLT for:
- interpretation of more specific approaches to treaty law drafted by treaty negotiators;
- treaty application in circumstances of contested State territory or succession challenges;
- temporal challenges arising in treaty interpretation;
- the status of bilateral investment treaties between European Union Member States and related termination endeavours;
- questions concerning the validity, termination and amendment of investment treaties, including as part of ongoing ISDS reform processes;
- current multilateral reform proposals, including the possibility of an appellate mechanism or a multilateral investment court;
- grappling with the challenge of fragmentation in international investment law, including the role of prior decisions in treaty interpretation, the challenges introduced by treaty conflict and the multitude of approaches that may be taken by national courts when implementing treaties like the New York Convention; and
- treaty interpretation and drafting as aided by emerging technologies, such as data analytics, machine learning, smart contracts and blockchain.
The book's appendix provides a highly valuable tabular summary of ISDS arbitral practice relating to the VCLT, collating key references from over 350 different procedural orders, decisions and awards.
How this will help you:
This book is essential reading for a variety of stakeholders, including arbitrators, counsel, scholars and government officials, who will benefit from the in-depth and practical analysis of the VCLT's relevance to and impact on investment law and investor-State arbitration. The book highlights the VCLT's central role in how investor-State disputes will be addressed in the coming years and what can be expected in this area of the law in the future. This book will prove to be an essential tool to understanding the advantages and disadvantages of differing approaches to the law of treaties for ISDS advocacy and scholarship.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Foreword
CHAPTER 1 An Introduction to the VCLT and Its Role in ISDS: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Esmé Shirlow & Kiran Nasir Gore
PART I
The VCLT and the Interpretation of Treaties
CHAPTER 2 The Interpretation of Treaties and Investment Arbitration: Introductory Reflections
Martins Paparinskis
CHAPTER 3 VCLT Article 33: Interpretation of Treaties Authenticated in Two or More Languages
Barton Legum & Anna Crevon-Tarassova
CHAPTER 4 The ICSID Convention and the VCLT: Interpreting the Term ‘Investment’
Roberto Castro de Figueiredo
CHAPTER 5 Signs of a Subjective Approach to Treaty Interpretation in Investment Arbitration: A Justified Divergence from the VCLT?
Julian Wyatt
CHAPTER 6 Competing Theories of Treaty Interpretation and the Divided Application by Investor-State Tribunals of Articles 31 and 32 of the VCLT
Charles N. Brower, Devin Bray & Pem Chhoden Tshering
CHAPTER 7 Article 32 of the VCLT and Precedent in Investor-State Arbitration: A Sliding Scale Approach to Interpretation
Esmé Shirlow & Michael Waibel
CHAPTER 8 The VCLT Rules on Interpretation and the Triangular Nature of Investment Treaties: State Control Versus Investor Rights
Elizabeth Sheargold
PART II
The VCLT and the Creation and Application of Treaties
CHAPTER 9 The VCLT and the Creation and Application of Treaties: Introductory Reflections
Kiran Nasir Gore & Esmé Shirlow
CHAPTER 10 The Entry into Force of International Investment Agreements: More Than Meets the Eye?
Alvin Yap & Christopher Bloch
CHAPTER 11 Territorial Application of Treaties: State Succession and Contested Territories from an International Arbitration Perspective
Wesley Pydiamah, Julien Fouret, Athina Fouchard Papaefstratiou & Dimitrios Papageorgiou
CHAPTER 12 Legal Questions Concerning the Temporal Application of Treaties in International Investment Arbitration Cases
Agnes Rydberg & Malgosia Fitzmaurice
PART III
The VCLT and the Validity, Termination, and Amendment of Treaties
CHAPTER 13 The VCLT and the Validity, Termination, and Amendment of Treaties in Light of Ongoing ISDS Reform: Introductory Remarks
Esmé Shirlow & Kiran Nasir Gore
CHAPTER 14 Termination, Amendment, Modernization and Reform of Investment Treaties: Which Way Forward?
Dilini L. Pathirana & James T. Gathii
CHAPTER 15 Living on a Prayer: Termination of Intra-EU BITs and the Law of Treaties
Frédéric G. Sourgens
CHAPTER 16 Multilateralising Interpretation: Fitting the Rules of the VCLT into the Multilateral Investment Court (or Vice Versa)
Aikaterini Florou
CHAPTER 17 An Appellate Mechanism for ICSID Awards and Modification of the ICSID Convention under Article 41 of the VCLT
Michele Potestà
PART IV
Concluding Remarks on Emerging Challenges for the VCLT and Investor-State Disputes
CHAPTER 18 The VCLT as a Cure for the New York Convention’s Bottlenecks: Interpretive Tools as the Ultimate Medicine for the Next Sixty Years?
Marike Paulsson & Supritha Suresh
CHAPTER 19 Treaty Conflict in International Investment Law
Shani Friedman
CHAPTER 20 The VCLT as a Unifying Force in Treaty Design: How Special Is Investment Law?
Ashwita Ambast & Dirk Pulkowski
CHAPTER 21 The VCLT, Future Fragmentations, and Opportunities for Innovation: Concluding Remarks
Kiran Nasir Gore & Esmé Shirlow
Appendix: Applications of the VCLT in Investor-State Arbitration with Accompanying Table Recording References to the VCLT in Over 350 Different Procedural Orders, Decisions and Awards of Investor-State Arbitral Tribunals
Esmé Shirlow
Table of Cases
Table of Conventions, Treaties, and Legislative Instruments
Index
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