Investor-State Arbitration Tribunals

I am very grateful to Sir Frank Berman, Anthea Roberts, and Federico Ortino for their wide-ranging observations about my book. As much as I would like to give an exhaustive reply to each of them, I could not do justice to all of their comments without exceeding the natural limitations of time and space imposed by the forum.

Anthea Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics and a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. I always enjoy reading Martins Paparinskis’ work and have read enough of it to know that I can count on him to have (1) written about questions that are of…

Sir Frank Berman KCMG QC is Visiting Professor of International Law at the University of Oxford and a member of Essex Court Chambers where his practice involves a wide range of international law issues, including international arbitration. There can be no-one active in the field of investment arbitration who hasn’t been challenged, or…

Dr Federico Ortino is Reader in International Economic Law at King’s College London. I will focus my (two) brief remarks on Part II of Martins Paparinskis’ excellent monograph. First, the main argument in Part II (and one of the central themes of the entire work) is that “treaty rules…