Abaclat and others V Ar­gen­tine Re­pub­lic: ICSID, the BIT and Mass Claims

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

H. van Houtte and B. McAsey ex­am­ine the re­la­tion­ship between ICSID, the bi­lat­er­al in­vest­ment treaty (BIT) and mass claims in the con­text of the dis­pute between Abaclat and the Ar­gen­tine Re­pub­lic.

The veri­fied scope is lim­ited to bring­ing these issues to­geth­er within the con­text of in­ter­na­tion­al in­vest­ment ar­bit­ra­tion. The avail­able ma­ter­i­al does not sup­port a fur­ther as­sess­ment of the au­thors’ method or con­clu­sions.