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…
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…