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Evolution of Kosovo’s Investment Arbitration Law: Defining the Foreign Investor and the State’s Role in Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

Notably, it broadens the definition of foreign investors while removing the principle of dual nationality, eliminates open consent to arbitration, and grants Kosovo the right to seek compensation for damages caused by investors.

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Telling the Truth Comes at a Cost for Indian Journalists and Human Rights Defenders – Could a Whistleblowing Framework Help?

Whistleblower Network News

At the Constitutional and Unity Conference in Bangalore in February, participants in a closed-door session on whistleblowing emphasized the need to incorporate human rights defenders and journalists, among other groups, into whistleblower-organizing efforts and a comprehensive whistleblower protection law.

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Arbitration With Public Entities in Brazil: Must Regulatory Agencies Participate?

Kluwer Arbitration

The STJ decision ruled not only on the possibility – and necessity – of a regulatory agency participating in arbitration proceedings between a concessionary and the relevant state entity but also on the limits of extending the effects of an arbitral award over a non-participating third party.

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The Story of India’s “First Whistleblower:” Stalled Progress in the Wake of Satyendra Dubey’s 2003 Murder

Whistleblower Network News

Satyendra was murdered over 20 years ago upon exposing corruption involved in the construction of India’s largest highway project at the time, which resulted in poor quality of work and the looting of public money. Workshop participants hope that progress can begin at the state level.

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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

Article 8, for example, warns the procuring agency, “when first soliciting the participation of. contractors in the procurement proceedings, shall declare whether the participation of suppliers or contractors in the procurement proceedings is limited,” and any “such declaration may not later be altered.”

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The Implications of Koch v. Canada for Emissions Trading Schemes

Kluwer Arbitration

KS&T was a market participant in OCTP with tracking accounts for emission allowances in Ontario and California. Relying on this definition, the Claimants argued that KS&T’s emission allowances constituted “property” and therefore qualified as an investment under NAFTA. The Koch v. Emission Allowances as “Property”?

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2025 Canadian Trade Outlook: Trade Remedies

Import and Trade Remedies

The complainant alleges that goods assembled/completed in Vietnam are “like goods” that otherwise meet the product definition in the February 2022 CITT finding initiating measures against chassis from China. Similar to other trade remedy proceedings, interested parties may make representations throughout an administrative review.

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