Abstract

Article 25 of the ICSID Convention limits the jurisdiction of the Centre to legal disputes arising directly out of an investment between a contracting state and a 'national' of another contracting state. Treaty protection, that is, is conditioned by the recognition of the 'foreign' nature of an investment, by way of either a place of incorporation or a control test. In practice, arbitrators recently had to elaborate on the significance of 'nationality' and to establish what constitutes a 'foreign' investment. Arbitral tribunals have had to consider cases opposing host-states to their own ...