Thursday, April 30, 2015

New Issue: ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal

The latest issue of the ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal (Vol. 30, no. 2, Spring 2015) is out. Contents include:
  • Lecture
    • Barton Legum, Of Definitions and Disregard: An Editorial
  • Case Comments
    • Agora: Yukos Universal Limited (Isle of Man) v The Russian Federation
    • Andrew Newcombe, Yukos Universal Limited (Isle of Man) v The Russian Federation: An Introduction to the Agora 
    • Tarcisio Gazzini, Yukos Universal Limited (Isle of Man) v The Russian Federation: Provisional Application of the ECT in the Yukos Case
    • Christopher S Gibson, Yukos Universal Limited (Isle of Man) v The Russian Federation: A Classic Case of Indirect Expropriation 
    • Aloysius Llamzon, Yukos Universal Limited (Isle of Man) v The Russian Federation: The State of the ‘Unclean Hands’ Doctrine in International Investment Law: Yukos as both Omega and Alpha
    • Irmgard Marboe, Yukos Universal Limited (Isle of Man) v The Russian Federation: Calculation of Damages in the Yukos Award: Highlighting the Valuation Date, Contributory Fault and Interest 
    • Julien Fouret & Pierre Daureu, Yukos Universal Limited (Isle of Man) v The Russian Federation: Enforcement of the Yukos Awards: A Second Noga Saga or a New Sedelmayer Fight?
    • Eric De Brabandere, Yukos Universal Limited (Isle of Man) v The Russian Federation: Complementarity or Conflict? Contrasting the Yukos Case before the European Court of Human Rights and Investment Tribunals
    • Antony Anghie, Deutsche Bank AG v Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: ‘All that is Solid Melts into Air’ 
    • Sam Wordsworth, QC & Chester Brown, A Re-run of Siemens, Wintershall and Hochtief on Most-Favoured-Nation Clauses: Daimler Financial Services AG v Argentine Republic
    • Rudolf Dolzer, ConocoPhillips v Venezuela and Gold Reserve v Venezuela: Expropriation: A New Focus on Old Issues 
    • Dávid Pusztai, Vigotop Limited v Hungary: (Re)defining the threshold of expropriatory contract termination 
  • Articles
    • Eda Cosar Demirkol Admissibility of Claims for Reflective Loss Raised by the Shareholders in Local Companies in Investment Treaty Arbitration
    • Inna Uchkunova & Oleg Temnikov, Toss out the Baby and Put the Water to Bed: On MFN Clauses and the Significance of Treaty Interpretation
  • Notes
    • Antony Crockett, Indonesia’s Bilateral Investment Treaties: Between Generations?
    • Shotaro Hamamoto, Parties to the ‘Obligations’ in the Obligations Observance (‘Umbrella’) Clause
    • Jurgen Kurtz & Luke Nottage, Investment Treaty Arbitration ‘Down Under’: Policy and Politics in Australia