Introduction

What aspects of PCA administration led to our being invited to participate in this conference today? Given the topic of the conference, investment arbitration, I would imagine that one would be our experience, both in the past and more recently in administering dispute resolution involving states, and sometimes states and private parties, as this is obviously the configuration of an investment arbitration. I certainly do not mean to imply that there are no other institutions that do this, because clearly ICSID which we have heard a lot about today does nothing but administer such ...