A Resolution to the Ukraine Conflict? A Legal Inquiry

The resilience of the Russian Federation is striking: Despite the EU’s historic sanctions, Russia’s gross domestic product is expected to…

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Symposium on Decoding Maldives’ Foreign Investment and Arbitration Law Regime: Examining ICSID as a Maldivian Solution

The Maldives is an island nation having around 5,40,000 people and dispersed across 185 islands. The country has been a development success…

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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 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: 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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