Vol. 31(2) of the ICSID Review is now available online and in print. This is the second special focus issue of the volume that celebrates the 50th anniversary of ICSID and the 30th anniversary of the ICSID Review.
This second special anniversary focus issue, edited by Prof. Laurence Boisson de Chazournes (University of Geneva, Switzerland) and co-Editor-in-Chief of the ICSID Review, Prof. Campbell McLachlan (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), examines a variety of key issues on the intersection of investment arbitration and public international law. Eleven distinguished scholars and practitioners contributed to this issue, the full Table of Contents for which can be found here.
The issue explores five main aspects of the topic: interpretation, application over time, State succession, State responsibility, and applicable law. The opening articles examine the function of the general rules of treaty interpretation in the investment arbitration context, in particular Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. The next articles explore different aspects of the application of investment treaties over time, including provisional application, retroactivity, successive investment treaties, denunciation, termination and survival of investment treaty obligations. The following articles map the issues in State succession to investment treaties and explore two key elements of the application of the general law of State responsibility to investment claims: attribution and circumstances precluding wrongfulness. Finally, the closing article considers the scope for the direct application of customary international law in investment arbitration. Framing the issue as a whole, Prof. McLachlan, considers to what extent it may properly be said that there is an evolving customary international investment law.
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