ITN Quarterly August 2015
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Features
- The Brazilian Agreement on Cooperation and Facilitation of Investments (ACFI): A New Formula for International Investment Agreements?
- Farmland Investments and Water Rights in Africa: The Legal Regimes Converging over Land and Water
- Working by Design: New Ideas to Empower U.S. and European Workers in TTIP
News in Brief
- Binding instrument on business and human rights: Working Group holds its first session
- European Parliament supports TTIP, but rejects current ISDS model
- Bolivia promulgates Conciliation and Arbitration Law with regime for investor–state disputes
- European Commission requests Member States to terminate intra-EU BITs
- China signs FTAs with South Korea and Australia, conducts new round of BIT negotiation with United States
Awards and Decisions
- Unanimous ICSID tribunal dismisses expropriation claim due to Papua New Guinea’s lack of written consent to arbitrate
- Government bonds not covered, despite broad definition of “investment” in Slovakia–Greece BIT; tribunal dismisses claims against Greece
- Looking to Venezuela’s Investment Law, majority finds that Venoklim was not a foreign investor and dismisses case against Venezuela; claimant-appointed arbitrator dissents
- Majority of ICSID tribunal finds no fair and equitable treatment violation by Albania in petroleum dispute
- Tribunal found Mongolia liable for unlawful expropriation and awarded more than US$80 million in damages