MAKING A MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT COURT BENEFICIAL FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA?
Role: principal investigator
Investor-State dispute settlement is being reformed at UNCITRAL. For States from Sub-Saharan Africa that are part of the current system, they have to decide whether to sign up to the reformed version of ‘ISDS’, the so-called ‘Multilateral Investment Court’. Thus, this research project asks:
How could a Multilateral Investment Court be made beneficial for them?
For more details on this research project, including research outputs, please see the following link: martin-jarrett.com/mic
THE RISE OF DOMESTIC COURTS IN INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW
Role: principal investigator
According to the traditional wisdom, there is a largely self-contained system of dispute settlement for investor-State disputes in international investment law. This system used arbitration to resolve such disputes, while domestic courts were largely seen as having only a supplementary role next to arbitral tribunals. Yet, particularly over the past five years, domestic courts have increasingly found ways to become involved in investor-State disputes, thus prompting the question:
How are domestic courts changing international investment law?
For more details on this research project, including research outputs, please see the following link: martin-jarrett.com/domcourts