ITN July 2009
In this issue: Glamis Gold Ltd. v. United States of America: Tribunal sets a high bar for establishing breach of “Fair and Equitable Treatment” under NAFTA; South African trade department critical of approach taken to BIT-making; arbitrators clash on question of interpretation in Hrvatska Electroprivreda d.d. v. The Republic of Slovenia; Greenpeace pressures German government for transparency in Vattenfall dispute; Venezuela consents to arbitration in new BIT with Russia; ICSID tribunal accepts Ecuador’s objections to jurisdiction in dispute with electricity firm