Concept papers
Concept papers for Academic Forum on ISDS.
ISDS AF Concept Paper – Precedent in ISDS
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Right to Regulate
Ted Gleason, Catharine Titi
Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2022/2
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
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
Preventing, mitigating and managing investor-state disputes
Mavluda Sattorova, Jonathan Bonnitcha, Yuliya Chernykh, Josef Ostřanský
Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2021/1
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Code of Conduct for Arbitrators and Judges
Chiara Giorgetti and Mohamed Abdel Wahab
Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/8
Reforming Shareholders Claims in ISDS
Julian Arato, Kathleen Claussen, Jaemin Lee & Giovanni Zarra
Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/9
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
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
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
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
An Advisory Centre on International Investment Law: Key Features
Karl P. Sauvant
Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2019/14
Mediation in Future Investor-State Dispute Settlement
Catherine Kessedjian, Anne van Aaken, Runar Lie, Loukas Mistelis
Academic Forum on ISDS Concept Paper 2020/15
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
