Resumed 38th Working Group III Session Preparatory Session

In advance of the resumed 38th Working Group III Session (18-19 January 2020, Vienna), CCSI hosted a two-day preparatory session for delegates. Please find the relevant agenda and resources for this preparatory session below.

Day 1 Agenda: 

• Diving Deeper into the Nature of an investment court – Design elements 
  • Designing a Multilateral Investment Court: Issues and Options, with Rob Howse, New York University School of Law
  • Diving Deeper into the Nature of an Investment Court – Design Elements, with Theresa Squatrito, London School of Economics
• Appellate Options 
  • Finding the “sweet – spot” between yesterday’s WTO & today’s ISDS?, with Joost Pauwelyn, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and Georgetown University Law Center.
  • Gabrielle Marceau, Office of Legal Affairs, WTO
• Adjudicator Selection and appointment
  • David Gaukrodger, OECD
  • Selection and Appointment in International Adjudication, with Taylor St John, University of St. Andrews
  • Michael Waibel, University of Vienna

Day 2 Agenda: 

• Enforcement issues and combination options 
  • The Challenge of Enforceability: Appellate Mechanisms and Investment Courts, with Jansen Calamita, National University of Singapore
• Panel discussion on structural reform options: focus on issues and concerns relevant to developing countries
  • Structural Reform of ISDS: The Establishment of a Multilateral Investment Court, with Colin Brown, European Commission
  • Structural Reforms of the Dispute Settlement System under the OIC Investment Treaty, with Mouhamadou Kane, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
  • Kinda Mohamadieh, Third World Network
  • Theresa Squatrito, London School of Economics

Relevant Materials

• Adjudicators
  • Andrea Bjorklund, Marc Bungenberg, Manjiao Chi, Catharine Titi, Selection and Appointment of International Adjudicators: Structural Options for ISDS Reform, Academic Forum Concept Paper (2019)
  • David Gaukrodger, Adjudicator Compensation Systems and Investor-State Dispute Settlement, OECD Working Paper (2017)
  • David Gaukrodger, Appointing Authorities and the Selection of Arbitrators in Investor-State Dispute Settlement: An Overview, OECD Consultation Paper (2018)
  • Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler and Michele Potestà, The Composition of a Multilateral Investment Court and of an Appeal Mechanism for Investment Awards, CIDS Supplemental Report (2017)
  • Malcolm Langford, Daniel Behn, and Maria Chiara Malaguti, The Quadrilemma: Appointing Adjudicators in Future Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Academic Forum Concept Paper (2019)
  • Olof Larsson, Theresa Squatrito, Øyvind Stiansen, Taylor St. John, Selection and Appointment in International Adjudication: Insights from Political Science, Academic Forum Concept Paper (2019)
  • Michael Waibel, Arbitrator Selection: Towards Greater State Control
  • Michael Waibel and Yanhui Wu, Are Arbitrators Political? Evidence from ICSID Arbitration (2019)
• Enforcement
  • August Reinisch, Will the EU’s Proposal Concerning an Investment Court System for CETA and TTIP Lead to Enforceable Awards? — The Limits of Modifying the ICSID Convention and the Nature of Investment Arbitration (2016)
  • Albert Jan van den Berg, Appeal Mechanism for ISDS Awards: Interaction with the New York and ICSID Conventions, ICSID Review (2019)
• First Instance Court and Appellate Mechanism
  • The Legitimacy of International Trade Courts and Tribunals, Rob Howse, Hélène Ruiz-Fabri, Geir Ulfstein, Michelle Q. Zang, eds. (2018)
  • Colin M. Brown, A Multilateral Mechanism for the Settlement of Investment Disputes. Some Preliminary Sketches, ICSID Review (2017)
  • Submission of the European Union and its Member States to UNCITRAL Working Group III: Establishing a standing mechanism for the settlement of international investment disputes (WP.159 and Add.1) (2019)
  • Germany in cooperation with the European Commission, The Case for a Multilateral Investment Court: Why it is needed and how it could be structured, 16 Questions and Answers
  • Rob Howse, Designing a Multilateral Investment Court: Issues and Options, Yearbook of European Law (2017)
  • Theresa Squatrito, Resourcing Global Justice: The Resource Management Design  of International Courts, Global Policy (2017)
• Reform Implementation Mechanisms
  • Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler and Michele Potestà, Can the Mauritius Convention serve as a model for the reform of investor-State arbitration in connection with the introduction of a permanent investment tribunal or an appeal mechanism? Analysis and roadmap, CIDS (2016)
  • Stephan W. Schill and Geraldo Vidigal, Designing Investment Dispute Settlement à la Carte: Insights from Comparative Institutional Design Analysis, Law &  Practice of Int’l Courts &  Tribunals (2019)
  • UNCITRAL Secretariat, Multilateral Instrument on ISDS reform (WP.194) (2020)
• Short Reflection Pieces
  • David Gaukrodger, Who chooses the judges (and should they)?: The selection of adjudicators in investor-state dispute settlement, OECD On the level (2018)
  • Nico Krisch, Institutionalizing Subsidiarity in the Reform of Investment Adjudication (2020)
  • Xuechan Ma and Shuai Guo, Are ICJ judges biased? Leiden Law Blog (2018)
  • Gus Van Harten, ISDS in the Revised CETA: Positive Steps, But Is It a “Gold Standard”? CIGI (2016)
  • FDI Perspectives
    • Herfried Wöss, Legitimacy in WTO law and investment arbitration: the role of the contracting parties (No. 144, 2015)
    • Anna Joubin-Bret, Why we need a global appellate mechanism for international investment law (No. 146, 2015)
    • Joachim Karl, An appellate body for international investment disputes: How appealing is it? (No. 147, 2015)
    • John P. Gaffney, When is investor-state dispute settlement appropriate to resolve investment disputes? An idea for a rule-of-law ratings mechanism (No. 149, 2015)
    • Nicolás M. Perrone and Gustavo Rojas de Cerqueira César, Brazil’s bilateral investment treaties: More than a new investment treaty model? (No. 159, 2015)
    • Anthea Roberts and Richard Braddock, Protecting public welfare regulation through joint treaty party control: a ChAFTA innovation (No. 176, 2016)
    • M. Sornarajah, An International Investment Court: panacea or purgatory? (No. 180, 2016)
    • Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler and Michele Potestà, Challenges on the road toward a multilateral investment court (No. 201, 2017)
    • Julien Chaisse and Matteo Vaccaro-Incisa, The EU investment court: challenges on the path ahead (No. 219, 2018)
    • Rishi Gulati and Nikos Lavranos, Guaranteeing the independence of the judges of a Multilateral Investment Court: A must for building the Court’s credibility (No. 262, 2017)
    • Orlando F. Cabrera C., The US-Mexico-Canada Agreement: the new gold standard to enforce investment treaty protection? (No. 269, 2020)