--- title: "Concept papers" summary: "Concept papers. Página institucional de Academic Forum on ISDS en la Universidad Externado de Colombia. Concept papers for Academic Forum on ISDS." description: "Concept papers for Academic Forum on ISDS." url: "https://www.uexternado.edu.co/academic-forum-on-isds/concept-papers/" type: "page" language: "es" site: "Universidad Externado de Colombia" section: "Academic Forum on ISDS" updated: "2026-04-07T19:29:23-05:00" --- Publicado: 3 de diciembre de 2025 # Concept papers Concept papers for Academic Forum on ISDS. ### ISDS AF Concept Paper – Precedent in ISDS [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ISDS-AF-Concept-Paper-%E2%80%93-Precedent-in-ISDS.pdf) * * * ### ‘Special Economic Zones and Investor-State Dispute Settlement: From Conflict To Convergence’ _Julien Chaisse, Georgios Dimitropoulos, Dominic Dagbanja, Ana P. Chuc Gamboa, Safaa Sadi Jaber, Junianto James Losari and Kehinde Olaoye_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2026/1, 18 January 2026 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/SEZs-and-ISDS_Working-Group-Paper_2026.01.18.pdf) * * * ### Mismatched Commitments: Treaty Law Solutions for Multilateral ISDS Reform _Daniel Peat, Leiden University, Oliver Hailes, LSE Law School, Chunlei Zhao, Ocean University of China_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2025/3 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/mismatched-commitments-treaty-law-solutions-for-multilateral-isds-reform-academic-forum-on-isds-concept-paper-2025-3.pdf) * * * ### The Intersection of Substance and Procedure in the Work of UNCITRAL Working Group III: The Questions of Damages, the Right to Regulate and Counterclaims _Edward Guntrip, Joshua Paine and Catharine Titi_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2/2025 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/guntrip-paine-titi-academic-forum-on-isds-working-group-20-march-25.pdf) * * * ### The Assessment and Calculation of Damages in Treaty-based ISDS _Jonathan Bonnitcha, José Manuel Alvarez-Zárate, Marcin Menkes, Josef Ostřanský and Yanwen Zhang_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2025/1 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/the-assessment-and-calculation-of-damages-academic-forum-on-isds-28-february-2025-with-cover-page.pdf) * * * ### The Role of Domestic Law in Investment Dispute Settlement _Jean Ho, Eric de Brabandere, Yuliya Chernykh, Dominic Dagbanja, Aikaterini Florou, Gabriel Lentner, Daniel Peat, Facundo Perez Aznar_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2024/1 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/wg8_theroleofdomesticlawinids_final27.3.2024.pdf) * * * ### Domestic Measures Adopted by States to Give Effect to Processes of International Dispute Settlement Volume III: Regional Human Rights Courts and Specialised Treaty Mechanisms for Investor-State Dispute Resolution _N Jansen Calamita, Stefanie Schacherer, Facundo Perez-Aznar, Aikaterini Florou_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2023/3 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/vol-3-regional-human-rights-courts-and-specialised-treaty-mechanisms-for-investor-state-dispute-resolution.pdf) * * * ### Domestic Measures Adopted by States to Give Effect to Processes of International Dispute Settlement Volume II: International and Regional Courts and Tribunals _N Jansen Calamita, Stefanie Schacherer, Facundo Perez-Aznar, Aikaterini Florou_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2023/2 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/vol-2-international-and-regional-courts-and-tribunals.pdf) * * * ### Domestic Measures Adopted by States to Give Effect to Processes of International Dispute Settlement Volume I: Treaties Establishing Dispute Settlement Frameworks _N Jansen Calamita, Stefanie Schacherer, Facundo Perez-Aznar, Aikaterini Florou_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2023/1 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/volume-i-treaties-establishing-dispute-settlement-frameworks.pdf) * * * ### Compliance with ISDS Awards: Empirical Perspectives and Reform Implications _Yuliya Chernykh, Malcolm Langford, Daniel Peat, Ole Kristian Fauchald, Szilárd Gáspár-Szilágyi, Emilia Onyema, and Sergio Puig_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2022/3 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/compliance-with-isds-awards-empirical-perspectives-and-reform-implications.pdf) * * * ### The Right to Regulate _Ted Gleason, Catharine Titi_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2022/2 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/the-right-to-regulate.pdf) * * * ### Damages and ISDS Reform: Between Procedure and Substance _Jonathan Bonnitcha, Malcolm Langford, Jose M Alvarez-Zarate, Daniel Behn_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2021/2, subsequently published as ‘Damages and ISDS Reform: Between Procedure and Substance’ in _Journal of International Dispute Settlement_ 14 (2023) 213 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/damages-and-isds-reform-between-procedure-and-substance.pdf) * * * ### Comparative Costs and Financing of Permanent Dispute Settlement Mechanisms _Catharine Titi, Freya Baetens, Robert Howse, Marcin J. Menkes, Walter Elochukwu Abah_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2022/1 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/comparative-costs-and-financing-of-permanent-dispute-settlement-mechanisms.pdf) * * * ### Preventing, mitigating and managing investor-state disputes _Mavluda Sattorova, Jonathan Bonnitcha, Yuliya Chernykh, Josef Ostřanský_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2021/1 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/preventing-mitigating-and-managing-investor-state-disputes.pd) * * * ### Excessive Costs and Recoverability of Cost Awards in Investment Arbitration _Gabriel Bottini, Jlien Chaisse, Marko Jovanovic, Facundo Pérez Aznar and Catharine Titi_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/1 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1-exceccive-costs.pdf) * * * ### Duration of ISDS Proceedings _Anna De Luca, Crina Baltag, Daniel Behn, Holger Hestermeyer, Gregory Shaffer, Jonathan Bonnitcha, José Manuel Alvarez-Zarate, Loukas Mistelis, Malcolm Langford, Clara López Rodríguez and Simon Weber_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/2 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2-duration.pdf) * * * ### Lack of Consistency and Coherence in the Interpretation of Legal Issues _Julian Arato, Yas Banifatemi, Chester Brown, Diane Desierto, Fabien Gelinas, Csongor Istvan Nagy, Federico Ortino_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/3 [Read more](https://www.cids.ch/images/Documents/Academic-Forum/3_Inconsistency_-_WG3.pdf) * * * **[Version 2, January 2020](https://www.jus.uio.no/ior/english/research/projects/copiid/academic-forum/papers/2020/3-parsing.pdf)** ### Responding to Incorrect ISDS Decision-Making: Policy Options _Anna De Luca, Mark Feldman, Martins Paparinskis and Catharine Titi_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/4 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/4-responding.pdf) * * * ### The Diversity Deficit in International Investment Arbitration _Andrea K. Bjorklund, Daniel Behn, Susan Franck, Chiara Giorgetti, Won Kidane, Arnaud de Nanteuil and Emilia Onyema_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/5 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/5-diversity.pdf) * * * ### Independence and Impartiality in Investment Dispute Settlement: Assessing Challenges and Reform Options _Chiara Giorgetti, Steven Ratner, Jeffrey Dunoff, Shotaro Hamamoto, Luke Nottage, Stephan Schill and Michael Waibel_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/6 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/6-independence.pdf) * * * ### Empirical Perspectives on Investment Arbitration: What do we know? Does it matter? _Daniel Behn, Malcolm Langford and Laura Létourneau-Tremblay_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/7 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/7-empirical.pdf) * * * ### A Code of Conduct for Arbitrators and Judges _Chiara Giorgetti and Mohamed Abdel Wahab_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/8 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/giorgetti-wahab-code-of-conduct-af-isds-paper-8-final-14-oct-2019-1.pdf) * * * ### Reforming Shareholders Claims in ISDS _Julian Arato, Kathleen Claussen, Jaemin Lee & Giovanni Zarra_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/9 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/arato-reforming-shareholder-claims-isds-af-9-2019.pdf) * * * ### Selection and Appointment in International Adjudication: Insights from Political Science _Olof Larsson, Theresa Squatrito, Øyvind Stiansen, and Taylor St John_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/10 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/larsson-selection-and-appointment-isds-af-10-2019.pdf) * * * ### Selection and Appointment of International Adjudicators: Structural Options for ISDS Reform _Andrea K. Bjorklund, Marc Bungenberg, Manjiao Chi, Catharine Titi_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/11 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/11-bjorklund-et-al-selection-and-appointment-isds-af-11-2019.pdf) * * * ### The Quadrilemma: Appointing Adjudicators in Future Investor-State Dispute Settlement _Malcolm Langford, Daniel Behn, and Maria Chiara Malaguti_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/12 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/langford-behn-malaguti-models-trade-offs-isds-af-isds-paper-12-draft-14-october-2019.pdf) * * * ### Third-Party Financing in ISDS. A Framework for Understanding Practice and Policy _Stavros Brekoulaki and Catherine Rogers_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/13 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/13-rogers-brekoulakis-tpf-isds-af-13-2019-version-2.pdf) * * * ### An Advisory Centre on International Investment Law: Key Features _Karl P. Sauvant_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/14 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/sauvant-advisory-center-isds-af-14-2019.pdf) * * * ### Mediation in Future Investor-State Dispute Settlement _Catherine Kessedjian, Anne van Aaken, Runar Lie, Loukas Mistelis_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2020/15 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/isds-af-mediation-paper-16-march-2020.pdf) * * * ### Investor Accountability: Indirect Actions, Direct Actions by States, and Direct Actions by Individuals _Martin Jarrett, Sergio Puig, Steven Ratner_ Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2021/16 [Read more](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/16_investor_accountability.pdf) * * *