This post, and its sister post on OpinioJuris, mark the start of the seventieth session of the International Law Commission. Under the theme “70 years of the International Law Commission: Drawing a Balance for the Future”, commemorative events will be held on 21 May in New York and on 5-6 July in Geneva. In these two…

Bart L. Smit Duijzentkunst is a PhD Candidate at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. In November, the media reported that Colombia intends to ask foreign investors vying to construct a $26 billion road project to waive their power to bring claims under an investment treaty. Instead, the dispute would have to be…