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Part I Overview, 3 Dispute Resolution Provisions

From: International Investment Arbitration: Substantive Principles (2nd Edition)

Campbell McLachlan, Laurence Shore, Matthew Weiniger

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 25 March 2023

Subject(s):
Consent to jurisdiction — Transparency — BITs (Bilateral Investment Treaties) — Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties — Applicable law — UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules — Treaty claim

Chapter 3 examines those aspects of dispute resolution provisions commonly found in bilateral investment treaties (BITs), with particular emphasis on four fundamental issues in the settlement of investment disputes through arbitration: (1) the clauses in investment treaties that provide for investor–State arbitration, focusing on the issue of the existence and limits of the consent to arbitrate; (2) transparency and the extent to which non-parties may be heard in the process; (3) the legal nature of the rights contained in investment treaties within the choice of law framework applicable to investment arbitration, in which both international law and host State law have a role to play; and (4) the overall approach to be taken to the interpretation of BITs under the general rule of interpretation provided in the Vienna Convention. The chapter concludes by discussing the role precedent plays in the development of investment treaty law.

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