Introduction

A significant increase in the number, and media prominence, of investment treaty arbitrations in the last decade has resulted in heated debate about how these cases should be run, regulated and publicised. There have been calls for a greater degree of transparency, and suggestions that investment cases should be treated as more akin to judicial than arbitral proceedings . These issues have also been raised in the course of the reform of various key arbitral instruments, such as the amendment in 2006 of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment ...