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The interest in using mediation for investor-state dispute is growing, writes Anna Howard, postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.

Volume 21 (2020): Issue 2-3 (Jun 2020): Special Issue: UNCITRAL and Investment Arbitration Reform: Matching Concerns and Solutions, edited by Malcolm Langford, Michele Potestà, Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler and Daniel Behn, in The Journal of World Investment & Trade.

Volume 18 (2019): Issue 3 (Feb 2020): Special Issue: Reforming International Investment Arbitration in The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, edited by Freya Baetens and Régis Bismuth.

The UNCITRAL Secretariat and the ISDS Academic Forum organized a webinar on the 4 June on the topic of treaty interpretation and control by States Parties over the interpretation of their investment treaty in the context of ISDS. 

The UNCITRAL Secretariat and the ISDS Academic Forum organized a webinar on 18 June on the topic of mediation. 

The UNCITRAL Secretariat, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the ISDS Academic Forum organized a webinar on 2 July on the topic of shareholder claims and reflective loss in the context of ISDS. 

The UNCITRAL Secretariat and the ISDS Academic Forum organized a webinar on the topic of a multilateral instrument on ISDS reform on 23 April 2020.

The UNCITRAL Secretariat and the Academic Forum has organized a webinar on the establishment of an advisory centre with a focus on the potential scope of services and beneficiaries. 

At the end of May, Nicola Strain presented her paper titled "The Murky Waters of Jurisdiction and Applicable Law in International Economic Disputes" at the 8th SIEL PEPA Conference at King's College, London.

LEGINVEST and PluriCourts, in collaboration with Monash University and the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, are organizing an international symposium on the legitimacy and increasingly important role for international investment law and arbitration in the protection of international human rights.

LEGINVEST and PluriCourts, in collaboration with Monash University and the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, are organizing an international symposium on the legitimacy and increasingly important role for international investment law and arbitration in the protection of international human rights.

The ISDS Academic Forum, together with PluriCourts Centre for Excellence (LEGINVEST) and Forum for Law & Social Science at the University of Oslo, will host a workshop on reforming international investment arbitration in Oslo 1-2 February 2019. 

International investment law and arbitration is the subject of growing empirical inquiry. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines and different qualitative, quantitative and computational methods, the research has shed light on burning public policy debates, puzzles in actor behavior, and trends in institutional and legal developments.

The conference is hosted by LEGINVEST, a Research Council of Norway-financed project, Pluricourts Centre of Excellence, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo in collaboration with iCourts and the German Development Institute. 

PhD fellow Tarald Gulseth Berge investigates the politico-economic causes and effects of the international regime for regulating international investors.

New research from PluriCourts reveals a tight network of actors shifting between the roles of lawyer and arbitrator in investment treaty arbitration. 

New research from PluriCourts reveals a tight network of actors shifting between the roles of lawyer and arbitrator in investment treaty arbitration.