Precedent in Investment Treaty Arbitration— A Citation Analysis of a Developing Jurisprudence

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Jeffery P. Commission’s article in the Journal of International Arbitration examines developing investment treaty arbitration jurisprudence through quantitative and qualitative citation analysis. It surveys the role of precedent in 207 publicly available decisions, awards, and orders issued since 1972, including decisions of ICSID, ICSID (AF), and certain non-ICSID investment treaty tribunals, as well as the sources of law cited in those decisions.