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Based on the 2006 UNCITRAL Model Law (“Model Law”), the law brings “something new” that goes beyond the Model Law provisions. However, it was important to bear in mind that the new law only applied to international commercial arbitrations, and not domestic arbitrations to which the old law would still apply.
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2001-4, Partial Award, 17 March 2006. Precedent is particularly important in ISDS practice because its ongoing reform is a focus of the international law community, and citation to other forms of jurisprudence may be a way for ISDS to “borrow” legitimacy from other less contested regimes. 2001-4, Partial Award, 17 March 2006.
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