Symposium on Decoding Maldives Foreign Investment and Arbitration Law Regime: Sun v Hilton – A Maldivian Enka v Chubb?

The judgment handed down by the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) in October 2020 in Enka v Chubb was regarded as a seminal…

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Symposium on Decoding Maldives’ Foreign Investment and Arbitration Law Regime: Consent to Investor-State Arbitration Through Municipal Law – Conceptualizing A Model Provision for Maldives

Maldives’ tryst with international investment law is intriguing. Despite its ample reliance on foreign investment, Maldives is neither party to the…

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Symposium on Decoding Maldives’ Foreign Investment and Arbitration Law Regime: An Introduction

Maldives’ relationship with international trade and investment is as old as its history. Traditionally, Maldives has been dependent on import…

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Symposium on the VCLT, ILC and Investor-State Disputes: Achieving the Progressive Development of International Investment Law and Arbitration 

The Editors of the Cambridge International Law Journal Blog endorses this statement by the Fellows of the Lauterpacht Centre for International…

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Symposium on the VCLT, ILC and Investor-State Disputes: Article 29 of the VCLT and the Territorial Application of Treaties in Investment Arbitration

Article 29 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) is the only provision in the Convention offering guidance…

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Symposium on the VCLT, ILC and Investor-State Disputes: Legal Questions Concerning the Temporal Application of Treaties in International Investment Arbitration Cases

Introduction  International investment tribunals face various challenges when conceptualising the temporal scope of the various treaties they interpret and apply.…

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Symposium on the VCLT, ILC and Investor-State Disputes: The ICSID Convention and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties – A Paradox

The ICSID Convention and the Vienna Convention live a complicated relationship. The Vienna Convention plays (or is meant to play) a key…

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Symposium on the VCLT, ILC and Investor-State Disputes: What Went Wrong with the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties?

The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) was perhaps the most important product of the International Law Commission’s 75 years…

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Symposium on the VCLT, ILC and Investor-State Disputes: The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: The ILC’s Magnum Opus for International Investment Law and Arbitration?

Since it was adopted in 1969, the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) has come to be widely regarded as…

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