Background

As part of the formulation of the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (the "ICSID Convention", or the "Convention"),[1] legal experts from 86 countries convened in four Regional Consultative Meetings in Addis Ababa, Santiago de Chile, Geneva, and Bangkok, between December 1963 and May 1964 to consider a preliminary draft of the Convention penned by World Bank staff. To assist the Executive Directors in formulating the Convention, having themselves received instructions in September 1964 from the Board of Governors to do ...