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Article: Finality versus consistency: does investor-state arbitration need an appellate system?
- Article from:
- Journal of Appellate Practice and Process
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
- Author:
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I. INTRODUCTION
Investor-state arbitration is so new that the vast majority of claims and decisions in this area have only occurred in the last six or seven years, and many areas of the law and procedure remain to be developed. The combination of international commercial arbitration procedure (1) and the substantive obligations arising under public international law (2) has created many challenges for those interested in the development of this new and fast-growing area of the law. Many of these challenges relate to the application of fundamental principles of the administration of justice. One such challenge is deciding whether there is a need for an appellate ...