OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of ICSID Review-Foreign Investment Law Journal is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Gramercy v Peru: Vintage Sovereign Land Bonds Protected by a New-Generation International Investment Agreement	5
International Legal Framework Governing Assessment of Damages Caused to Foreign Investors in Armed Conflict	4
Australia’s Ambivalence Again Around Investor-State Arbitration: Comparisons with Europe and Implications for Asia	4
Patrick Costello v the Government of Ireland, Ireland and the Attorney General: Obstacles to the Ratification of CETA in the Irish Constitutional Context	3
Correction	2
Killing It Softly: The ILC’S Articles on State Responsibility	2
From Aspiration to Public Policy: Imprinting UNGP-Aligned Footprints of Corporate Responsibility and Accountability into the Shifting Sands of International Arbitration Practice	2
Concluding Remarks: ARSIWA - A Reference Text Partially Victim of Its Own Success?	2
The 2021 Canadian Model FIPA: More Than Meets the Eye	2
Extra-Treaty Defenses Available to States in Investment Disputes Arising from Armed Conflicts	2
Local Remedies Rule and Its Application by the International Court of Justice	2
Non-Pecuniary Remedies Revisited: Expanding Influence of the ILC Articles?	1
Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co Ltd v The Federal Republic of Nigeria: Special Economic Zones and Investment Treaty Arbitration at Crossroads	1
Contributory Fault and Investor Misconduct in Investment Arbitration	1
Víctor Pey Casado and President Allende Foundation v Republic of Chile: Assignment of Investment Treaty Claims and Jus Standi of the Assignee	1
Temporal Issues Relating to BIT Dispute Resolution	1
Force Majeure and Investment Arbitration	1
2023 Lalive Lecture	1
RSE Holdings AG v Republic of Latvia: When Does Double-Hatting Justify the Disqualification of an Arbitrator?	1
The Investment Treaty Regime and Public Interest Regulation in Africa	1
Energy Dependence and Supply Security: Energy Law in the New Geopolitical Reality	1
Certain Iranian Assets (Iran v United States) An Introduction to the Agora	1
The Right to Regulate vs Investment Protection: Unveiling the Causes of Imbalance and the Limits of Current Reform Efforts in International Investment Law	1
The ILC Articles on State Responsibility in Investment Treaty Arbitration	1
ICSID: An Introduction to the Convention and Centre	1

EU Investment Protection Law: Chapter Eight of CETA, the Vietnam and Singapore Free Trade Agreements and EU Regulations 1219/2012, 912/2014 and 2019/452. Article-by-Article Commentary	1
The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in Investor-State Disputes: History, Evolution, and Future	1
Infrastructure Services Luxembourg Sàrl and Energia Termosolar BV v Kingdom of Spain: Spain Fails to Secure Set Aside of Registration of Intra-EU ICSID Award in the English Commercial Court	1
Espíritu Santo Holdings, LP and L1bre Holding, LLC v Mexico:A New Piece of the Corpus of Interim Measures Orders in Relation to Criminal Proceedings	0
Invoking the Paris Agreement in Investor-State Arbitration	0
Paradigm Shift: Investor Due Diligence and Third-Party Illegality	0
Reforming the Bilateral Investment Treaty Landscape in the Caribbean Region: A Clarion Call	0
Correction	0
Fragmentation and Integration in International Investment Law: Plus Ça Change	0
Cairn Energy v India: Continuity in the Use of ILC Articles on State Responsibility	0
Challenges of Mediating Investor-State Disputes	0
An Analysis of Concurrent Proceedings under Chinese BITs	0
The Technological Competence of Arbitrators: A Comparative and International Legal Study	0
The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights under International Investment Law	0
Investment Protection in Situations of Armed Conflict: Evolution, Relevance and Challenges	0
Judicial Expropriation	0
Does an Annulled Award Constitute Legal Authority in Investment Arbitration?	0
The ILC Articles on State Responsibility: More than a ‘Plank in a Shipwreck’?	0
Eco Oro v Colombia: The Brave New World of Environmental Exceptions	0
Essential Security Interests in International Investment Law—A Trend towards GATTization	0
The Umbrella Clause Revisited	0
State Succession and State Responsibility in the Context of Investor-State Dispute Settlement	0
Swords, Shields and Other Beasts: The Role of Countermeasures in Investment Arbitration	0
Using PowerPoint in ISDS Hearings	0
Horthel v Poland: Fair and Equitable Treatment Embodies the Rule of Law, Whereas ‘Tax’ Is Not Always a Tax	0
Determining the Juridical Status of Companies under International Law	0
International State Responsibility and Internal Law in Investment Arbitration: A Hierarchy of Sorts	0
Corruption and the (Un)Clean Hands Doctrine in Investor-State Arbitration: Definitional and Reciprocity Challenges	0
Thoughts on the Interpretation and Desirability of Tax Carve-Outs in Investment Treaties	0
The Protection of Intangible Property during Armed Conflict	0
Kimberly-Clark Dutch Holdings, BV, Kimberly-Clark SLU, and Kimberly-Clark BVBA v Venezuela	0
The Potential Impact of the 2020 UAE FDI Decree and Side Agreements	0
All’s Well That Ends Well? Looking at the Future of the Unified Arab Agreement in Light of the Al-Kharafi v Libya Decisions by the Egyptian Courts	0
‘Instead of Principles, Slogans’	0
Vanishing Treaty Claims: Investors Trapped in a Temporal Twilight Zone	0
Legal Consequences of and Approaches to the Question of Recognition of a Government of a State: Disputes involving Venezuela	0
Justifying the Protection of Legitimate Expectations in International Investment Law: Legal Certainty and Arbitrary Conduct	0
Dispute Settlement and the Reform of International Investment Law: Legalization through Adjudication	0
The 2022 ICSID Arbitration Rules: Modernizing International Investment Dispute Resolution	0
Conciliation and Mediation in Investor-State Dispute Settlement Provisions: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis	0
International Investment Protection and Constitutional Law	0
Necessity 20 Years On: The Limits of Article 25	0
Investment Arbitration and State-Driven Reform: New Treaties, Old Outcomes	0
‘Maduro Board’ of the Central Bank of Venezuela v ‘Guaidó Board’ of the Central Bank of Venezuela	0
The Protection of Crypto-Assets in International Investment Law	0
The Compatibility of the Substance over Form Doctrine with Tax and Investment Treaties: A Case Study of Lone Star v the Republic of Korea	0
Investment Arbitration and Climate Change	0
International Intellectual Property Law as Applicable Law in Investment Disputes	0
The Meaning of Silence in Investment Treaties	0
Phasing Out Coal Investment Contracts: Does Just Transition Finance Legitimize Unjust Compensation?	0

Neutralising the ECT Sunset Clause Inter Se	0
A Guide to General Principles of Law in International Investment Arbitration	0
Fair and Equitable Treatment, Non-Impairment and Effective Means Protections: The ICJ’s Judgment in Certain Iranian Assets	0
The Essential Qualities for an Arbitrator	0
Contextual Impartiality: A New Approach to Assessing Impartiality in Investor-State Dispute Settlement	0
Judging at the Interface: Deference to State Decision-Making Authority in International Adjudication	0
International Investment Treaty Compliance in Canadian Federalism: A Multidimensional Challenge	0
Translation and Interpretation in ICSID Proceedings	0
Armed Conflicts and Investor-State Disputes	0
Balancing the Protection of Foreign Investors and States Responses in the Post-Pandemic World	0
What Can IIAs Contribute to Regulating Cross-border Data Transfer: A Threshold Analysis	0
A Tale of Two Systems: The Public and Private Faces of Investor-State Dispute Settlement	0
The ICJ’s Treatment of the FPS Standard in Certain Iranian Assets: A Clarifying Contribution or Unsteady Step Back into a Comfort Zone?	0
The Use of the UNIDROIT Principles and Other Transnational Principles of Commercial Law in Treaty Arbitration: Hazards and Opportunities	0
ICSID Rules and Regulations 2022: Article-by-Article Commentary	0
Mala Fides Exceptions in Certain Iranian Assets: Lessons for Inter-State and Investment Disputes	0
Hearing Preparation: A Practical Guide for Counsel	0
Avoiding Echo Chambers? A Reaction to Professor Douglas’s Call for Conceptual Discipline	0
ASEAN and The Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Global Challenges and Regional Options	0
A Chronicle of Building an Attractive Domestic Regulation of Foreign Direct Investment in Egypt	0
State Responsibility and Compliance with Provisional Measures under ICSID	0
Correction	0
Preface	0
The 2019 Morocco Model BIT: Moving Forwards, Backwards or Roundabout in Circles?	0
Crippling Compensation in the International Law Commission and Investor–State Arbitration	0
The Three Ages of International Commercial Arbitration	0
Economic Sanctions, Countermeasures and Investment Claims against the Russian Federation: A Battle on Multiple Fronts	0
Bridgestone v Panama: Denial of Justice in a Trade Mark Dispute and the Locus Standi of a Licensee in International Investment Arbitration	0
Global Regulatory Standards in Environmental and Health Disputes	0
Attribution in International Law and Arbitration	0
For a Universal Standard for Conflicts Disclosures	0
Security Exceptions	0
Incomplete International Investment Agreements: Problems, Causes and Solutions	0
China’s New Arbitration Law: Friendly to International Investment Arbitration?	0
Koch Industries, Inc. and Koch Supply & Trading, LP v Canada: Emissions Allowances as ‘Investment’?	0
Unión Fenosa Gas v Egypt: The Necessity Defense: Much Ado about Nothing?	0
Glencore v Colombia: A Tale of Legally Coerced Evidence	0
Víctor Pey Casado and President Allende Foundation v Republic of Chile: Layers of Preclusion	0
Instrumentalising Nationality of Natural Persons: Legitimate Strategic Planning versus Abuse of Procedural Rights	0
Mihaljević v Croatia:Abuse of Rights and Nationality Planning by Natural Persons	0
Compensation or Competitive Advantage? Reconciling Investment Arbitration with EU State Aid Law	0
The Determination of Bank Markazi’s Claims and Implications for the Claims of Central Banks under Investment Treaties	0
Correction	0
Impartiality and the Construction of Trust in Investor-State Dispute Settlement	0
State Responsibility and Corruption in the Context of Investor-State Disputes	0
Investment Contracts and the Reform of Investment Arbitration: Towards Sustainability	0
Investment Protection in Post-Brexit EU–UK Relations	0
Causation and the Draft Articles on State Responsibility	0
Staur Eiendom AS and others v Latvia	0
Article 38: The Treatment of Interest in International Investment Arbitration	0
James Crawford AC SC FBA (1948–2021): The General Law of State Responsibility and the Specific Case of Investment Claims	0
Can International Investment Law Punish Investor’s Human Rights Violations? Copper Mesa, Contributory Fault and its Alternatives	0
Green Power Partners v Spain: Upholding the Intra-EU Objection to Jurisdiction in the ECT Context—A Swerve in the Search for the Line of Two Planes	0
ISDS Reform in the Context of China’s IIAs	0
Counterclaims in Investment Arbitration: Towards an Integrated Approach	0
AsiaPhos Limited and Norwest Chemicals Pte Ltd v People's Republic of China: Unpredictable Jurisdiction under the Restrictive ISDS Mechanism	0
The 2001 ILC Articles on State Responsibility—An Annotated Bibliography	0
Non-Compliance with Investment Arbitration Awards and State Responsibility	0
Deutsche Lufthansa AG v Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: Am I My Brother’s Keeper?	0
The Applicability of Investment Treaties in the Context of Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine	0
Shareholder Claims for Reflective Loss in Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Proposing Reform Options for States	0
India and Bilateral Investment Treaties: Refusal, Acceptance, Backlash	0
The Duty of Arbitrators to Raise Suspected Corruption or to Investigate Poorly Particularized Allegations of Corruption	0
Evidentiary Challenges in the Context of Armed Conflict	0
Introducing the Illegality-Curing Doctrine	0
A New Test Toward Consistency in International Investment Arbitration	0
Third-Party Funding in Investment Arbitration: How to Define and Disclose It	0
Consutel Group SpA in liquidazione v People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria: Umbrella Clauses and Breaches of Contract by Public Entities	0
Recent Trends in Investment Arbitration on the Right to Regulate, Environment, Health and Corporate Social Responsibility: Too Much or Too Little?	0
Reclaiming Sovereignty over Natural Wealth and Resources in Tanzania: Legal and Regulatory Implications on Investments	0
Document Production: The Armesto Schedule	0
Post-Termination Responsibility of States?—The Impact of Amendment/Modification, Suspension and Termination of Investment Treaties on (Vested) Rights of Investors	0
The 2022 ICSID Rules: A Leap Toward Greater Transparency in ICSID Arbitration	0
Michael Anthony Lee-Chin v Dominican Republic: Interpreting the Consent to Arbitrate in the CARICOM–DR FTA	0
Attribution of Conduct to a State	0
Víctor Pey Casado and President Allende Foundation v Republic of Chile: ‘ICSID’s Longest-Running Case’ An introduction to the Agora	0
Determining the Applicable Law in Commercial and Investment Arbitration: Two Intertwined Road Maps for Conflicts-Solving	0
‘The Greatest Victory’? Challenges and Opportunities for Mediation in Investor-State Dispute Settlement	0