In Investor-State arbitration, argumentation regarding human rights and environmental protection has been controversial. This tension between investment law and human…
On 24 May 2023, Justice Fraser issued a comprehensive judgment in Infrastructure Services Luxembourg v Kingdom of Spain, rejecting Spain’s defences…
Introduction Climate pledges are an ever growing means for committing to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2030-2040. Although climate pledges could…
The Maldives is an island nation having around 5,40,000 people and dispersed across 185 islands. The country has been a development success…
The judgment handed down by the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) in October 2020 in Enka v Chubb was regarded as a seminal…
Maldives’ tryst with international investment law is intriguing. Despite its ample reliance on foreign investment, Maldives is neither party to the…
M Sornarajah has argued that in the 18th and 19th centuries, investment was mainly made in the context of colonial expansion. However, as opposed…
Maldives’ relationship with international trade and investment is as old as its history. Traditionally, Maldives has been dependent on import…
The Editors of the Cambridge International Law Journal Blog endorses this statement by the Fellows of the Lauterpacht Centre for International…
Article 29 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) is the only provision in the Convention offering guidance…