Cofola International 2021. International and National Arbitration – Challenges and Trends of the Present and Future

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Abstrakt

The contribution deals with two debates that are taking place within the EU. Internally inside the EU about a possible alternative to ISDS, if any is needed. Specifically, the questions are: what are the possibilities? And how does the progress in the EU looks like? Externally, with non-EU countries via bilateral agreements, free trade agreements and globally within UNCITRAL.

Klíčová slova

ISDS; Reform of International Investment Arbitration; EU; BIT; FDI; Achmea; Intra-EU; Extra-EU; FTA; ICS; CETA; UNCITRAL; MIC.


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