Addressing and Redressing Errors in ICSID Arbitration
Article from: TDM 1 (2014), in Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement
Introduction
Few among us - students, scholars, practitioners and arbitrators in the admittedly underpopulated realm of international investment law- would dispute that, in the context of the ICSID Convention and Rules, an award that contains petty errors can easily be remedied under the devices provided for in the said Convention and Rules. As a result of what we suggest to be an inadequate reading of the applicable texts, which this paper submits could be overcome through improved interpretation or drafting, the headcount of those in agreement is paradoxically prone to start thinning as the ...