Uluslararasi Yatirim Tahkiminde Vatandaşlik Meselesine (Yeniden) Bakiş: Serafin Garcia Armas V Venezuela

Development summary

Aysun Bolaca’s study examines the importance of an investor’s nationality for jurisdiction in international investment arbitration and the issues arising when the investor also holds the nationality of the host State. It analyzes Serafin Garcia Armas v Venezuela as the first published international arbitral award allowing a dual-national investor to initiate treaty-based arbitration against their own State and discusses its possible impact on future arbitral disputes.