Testing the Procedural Limits of the Treaty System: The Argentinean Experience
Article from: TDM 2 (2005), in BIICL Investment Treaty Forum Conference
Introduction
We have been talking about the investment arbitration juggernaut (or perhaps it is less a juggernaut than a fifty carriage train): does it need slowing down? There is certainly one government which believes it should be slowing down and that is the government of Argentina with regard to the current situation both before ICSID and in relation to treaty arbitrations outside the ICSID system. There are, at current count, about thirty cases pending against Argentina before ICSID and about five UNCITRAL cases. Since January 2002, almost half of all new cases registered ...