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The Alternative Forms Of Dispute Settlement And The Essential Difference Between These And Arbitration, Michael Diathesopoulos
The Alternative Forms Of Dispute Settlement And The Essential Difference Between These And Arbitration, Michael Diathesopoulos
Michael Diathesopoulos
The paper examines the characteristics of some common alternative forms of dispute settlement and their key differences from arbitration regarding their nature and scope. Its purpose is to explore each mechanism's suitability for specific types of disputes.
Walking A Tightrope: The Role Of Equitable Discretion In Quantum Determination In Investment Treaty Law, Silke N. Kumpf
Walking A Tightrope: The Role Of Equitable Discretion In Quantum Determination In Investment Treaty Law, Silke N. Kumpf
Silke Noa Kumpf
My thesis analyzes the manifestation of equitable arbitrator discretion in quantum determination and its role as a tool to balance treaty-based investor rights with extrinsic but competing international and public law obligations of States. I examine, first, scholarly opinions on the subject, second, arbitral practice through a content analysis of all past awards published by the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), which held liable respondent State for expropriation and, third, the results of an online survey I conducted with ICSID arbitrators, the lawyers that plead before them and the scholars that write about the topic in …