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28 October 2008
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Lawyers for the Dominican Republic have accused a subsidiary of the French financial services company Société Générale of breaking confidentiality rules in an ad-hoc arbitration when it issued a press release announcing that the tribunal had ruled in its favour by rejecting the Dominican Republic’s objections to jurisdiction.
In a 3 October 2008 press release, TCW states that the Tribunal had “rejected the objections raised by the Dominican Government and allowed US$ 680 million in claims against the Republic to proceed to a final hearing and an award on the merits of the dispute.”
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By Damon Vis-Dunbar - 21 October 2008
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Nonparties wishing to intervene in an international arbitration launched by Italian miners against the government of South Africa have been offered a set of procedures to follow.
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By Damon Vis-Dunbar - 15 October 2008
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A leading figure in the field of international investment law passed away suddenly on 11 October 2008. Thomas W. Wälde, a professor at the University of Dundee, Scotland, fell at his holiday home in Southern France. News of his death, which spread across the on-line forums that he founded and fostered, has been met with an outpouring of grief.
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Award is publicly released in failed Energy Charter Treaty claim against the Ukraine
By Damon Vis-Dunbar - 13 October 2008
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Details of an arbitration involving a Latvian investor and the government of the Ukraine have emerged following the public release of the tribunal’s final award, some seven months after the decision was rendered. The Ukraine has been absolved of charges that it had breached the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), a multilateral agreement that governs investment in the energy sector.
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By Damon Vis-Dunbar - 30 September 2008
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Professor John Ruggie was appointed to be Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on business & human rights in 2005. Prof. Ruggie is also the Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs and Weil Director of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government, as well as Affiliated Professor in International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.
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