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Mongolia: Investment Related Developments in the Mining Sector

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More recent advancements in Mongolia’s international investment initiatives include the Canada-Mongolia BIT (2016) and Japan-Mongolia Economic Partnership Agreement (2015) (which replaced and superseded the Japan-Mongolia BIT (2001) ). million in 2015. million to $4.5 billion in 2013 and further dropping to less than $95.0

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

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However, as the pervasive abuses of direct awards under the emergency conditions generated by the covid pandemic evidenced in virtually all jurisdictions, dispensing with those requirements, checks and balances comes with a very high price tag for taxpayers in terms of corruption, favouritism, and wastage of public funds.

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Examining the Delegation of the Power to Determine Arbitrability: Insights from Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd. v. Cypress Semiconductor Corp.

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Notably, Fujitsu partially breaks with precedent in other jurisdictions on how carve-out provisions influence the delegation of arbitrability. It also examined the implications of incorporating Japanese arbitration rules—with permissive, not mandatory, language stating arbitrators “may” rule on their own jurisdiction—on delegation.

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CBAr 23rd International Arbitration Conference: Arbitration and Infrastructure

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13,129/2015 , which expanded arbitration’s scope, especially in infrastructure-related disputes involving public administration. Professor Armesto highlighted the 2015 Paris Agreement (also reported here ), noting the difficult position of Latin American countries that must balance infrastructure development with environmental protection.

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2024 PAW: Affaires d’Etats Vol. 3 – Amplifying the Voices of Developing States in ISDS Reform

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Mehranvar noted that these observations underscore a concerning trend where countries with greater influence in the creation of the ISDS regime are once again re-writing the (asymmetric) rules, paving the way for the re-legitimization of an inherently flawed system. Canada and E.U.

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Cross-Fertilisation in International Commercial Arbitration, Investor-State Arbitration and Mediation: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?

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It teases out some connections or influences among ICA, investor-State arbitration (“ISA”), and international and domestic mediation, which I have also sought to represent visually in the graphic below. My address will take an even more encompassing view (and will be available as a full paper here after the public lecture).

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LIDW 2024: Bank Collapse and ISDS: Arbitration Strategy and Dramatis Personae

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Cameron Miles underscored that circumstances have changed since 2015 (see e.g. Po š tov á Banka v. More from our authors: Dealing with Bribery and Corruption in International Commercial Arbitration: To Probe or Not to Probe by Emmanuel Obiora Igbokwe € 190 Arbitration in Egypt: A Practitioner's Guide by Ibrahim Shehata € 190

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