Author's Foreword

With the publication of a consent award on April 8, 2009, the ICSID arbitration between Trans-Global Petroleum and the Kingdom of Jordan which inspired the following article, came to an end. Although we shall never enjoy the possibility of comparing a final merits analysis with the Tribunal's Rule 41(5) adjudication, the author believes that the Tribunal's early foray into the procedural realm of preliminary, merits-based claim vetting represents the first step in what is likely to become an important, even if controversial, area of procedural reform in international ...