Summary

The purpose of this analysis is straightforward. It seeks to provide a 'snap shot' of the state of international law with regard to a particularly interesting, and rapidly evolving, subject: investor-state arbitration. The focus is on investor-state arbitration in the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), although the state of the law is such that jurisprudence from other sources will be used to flesh out exactly what we perceive are, and might be, the important issues emerging in the relatively young area of investment arbitration under the ECT. Before discussing the various ...