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Time To Join The “Bit Club”? Promoting And Protecting Brazilian Investments Abroad, Lucas Bento
Time To Join The “Bit Club”? Promoting And Protecting Brazilian Investments Abroad, Lucas Bento
Lucas Bento
The growing internationalization of Brazilian organizations calls for a greater array of investment protections available to them, particularly as they weave through an increasingly competitive and uncertain global economy. This article argues that the Brazilian government should consider ratifying BITs so as to provide greater protections to its own – domestic – investors.
Prejudgment Interest In International Arbitration, Jeffrey M. Colon, Michael S. Knoll
Prejudgment Interest In International Arbitration, Jeffrey M. Colon, Michael S. Knoll
Jeffrey M. Colon
Tribunals in international arbitration are regularly asked by claimants to award prejudgment interest. Unless foreclosed by an agreement between the parties, there is widespread agreement prejudgment interest should put the claimant in the same position as it would have been had it not been injured by the respondent. However, there is little consensus how to calculate prejudgment interest in order to accomplish that purpose. In this Essay, we describe the proper method of calculating prejudgment interest based on sound financial principles. Using the paradigm that the respondent has forced the claimant to make an involuntary loan to the respondent, we …