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Entrevista con Alejandro Faya-Rodríguez, asesor jurídico especial, Ministerio de Economía mexicano

Alejandro Faya-Rodríguez fue Director General Adjunto de Asuntos Internacionales de la Dirección General de Inversión Extranjera del Ministerio de Economía de México hasta marzo pasado. En dicho cargo negoció...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 3:54 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

Filed under: México, bilaterales de inversión, entrevista, Nación Más Favorecida

News in Brief: Tribunal declines jurisdiction in African Holding Company of America, INC et Société Africaine de construction au Congo SARL (SAFRICA) v. République Démocratique du Congo

By Suzy H. Nikièma 13 August 2008 An ICSID tribunal has declined jurisdiction in a dispute over a failed construction contract between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and two U.S. investors. Two members of the three-person tribunal held...

Published Wed, Aug 13 2008 8:00 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

Filed under: ICSID, Democratic Republic of Congo, jurisdiction, ratione temporis

News: An update on the ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreements

By Suzy H. Nikièma and Damon Vis-Dunbar 8 August 2008 Over the last six years the European Commission and 77 African, Caribbean, Pacific (ACP) countries have been negotiating free trade agreements, which they call Economic Partnership Agreements...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 5:04 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

Filed under: European Commission, Economic Partnership Agreement, CEMAC, ECOWAS

Commentary: A case for an international investment court

By Gus Van Harten Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University 7 August 2008 I shall lay out an argument for an international investment court, not because I wish to associate myself with grandiose schemes for international reform, but...

Published Thu, Aug 07 2008 10:45 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

Filed under: commentary, public law, international investment court

South American alternative to ICSID in the works as governments create an energy treaty

By Fernando Cabrera Diaz 6 August 2008 A July 16-17 meeting of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (comprised of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Nicaragua, and Venezuela)* ended without public mention of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment...

Published Wed, Aug 06 2008 3:23 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

Filed under: ALBA, ICSID, Energy Security Treaty

An interview with Alejandro Faya-Rodriguez, special legal advisor, Mexican Ministry of Economy

17 July 2008 Alejandro Faya-Rodriguez was the Deputy Director-General for International Affairs of the Directorate-General of Foreign Investment at the Mexican Ministry of Economy until last March, where he negotiated ten bilateral investment treaties...

Published Mon, Jul 28 2008 9:03 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

News: Trans-Global Petroleum Inc. v. Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: First Application of ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5)

By Elizabeth Whitsitt 25 July 2008 Tribunal considers whether a claim by an U.S. investor against Jordon is “manifestly without legal merit”, and rejects all but one of Jordan’s objections An ICSID tribunal has ruled on whether to uphold...

Published Fri, Jul 25 2008 7:42 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

Filed under: ICSID, Trans-Global Petroleum Jordan, Jordan, Rule 41 (5)

Analysis: Latin America's new model bilateral investment treaties

By Damon Vis-Dunbar 17 July 2008 For the longest time, bilateral investment treaties were quintessential bureaucrats’ agreements. Terse and technical, these treaties were drafted by a handful of trade officials, with little consideration for their...

Published Thu, Jul 17 2008 2:35 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

Filed under: Bolivia, Ecuador, Model BITs, Latin America, Colombia

News: ECJ advocate general argues some Austrian and Swedish BITs are incompatible with EU law

By Damon Vis-Dunbar 17 July 2008 The ECJ advocate general sides with the European Commission in arguing that Austria and Sweden should have amended some of the pre-accession BITs with non-EU countries. In an opinion issued on 10 July 2008, the European...

Published Thu, Jul 17 2008 2:29 AM by Damon Vis-Dunbar

Filed under: Finland, Austria, ECJ, European Commission

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