Article 29 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) is the only provision in the Convention offering guidance…
Introduction International investment tribunals face various challenges when conceptualising the temporal scope of the various treaties they interpret and apply.…
Treaty interpretation would be so much easier if we all spoke the same language. According to the Biblical story, once…
The ICSID Convention and the Vienna Convention live a complicated relationship. The Vienna Convention plays (or is meant to play) a key…
The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) was perhaps the most important product of the International Law Commission’s 75 years…
Since it was adopted in 1969, the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) has come to be widely regarded as…
In last July 8th, shortly after Ethiopia reported the completion of its second annual filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance…
On 2 September 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued the much-awaited judgement in the Komstroy…
It has been remarked as early as 1991 that texts of international investment agreements (IIAs) differ in many important respects…
Environmental treaty obligations are regularly invoked by investment tribunals; statistically, from 2012 to 2015, environmental considerations were invoked 65 times…