Chal­len­ging investment-treaty ar­bit­ral awards in do­mest­ic courts on ac­count of in­vestor mis­con­duct

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Martin Jar­rett’s art­icle in Ar­bit­ra­tion In­ter­na­tion­al ad­dresses how al­leg­a­tions of in­vestor mis­con­duct are ad­vanced by States before do­mest­ic courts in investment-treaty ar­bit­ra­tion. It sur­veys States’ chal­lenges to investment-treaty awards, tracks their suc­cesses and fail­ures, and maps the emer­ging case law; the ab­stract’s bottom line is that do­mest­ic courts are seldom re­cept­ive to such al­leg­a­tions and that the de­vel­op­ing jur­is­pru­dence tends to favour in­vestors.