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Sébastien Manciaux
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"Existence d'un différend et compétence ratione temporis du CIRDI : réflexions à propos de quelques décisions récentes"
2006
International audience
Cirdi, Chronique des sentences arbitrales
2011
International audience; Chronique portant sur l'arbitrage Cirdi en 2010. Cette chronique commence par une description de l'activité du Cirdi en 2010 : état des adhésions et dénonciations, nombre et nature des affaires enregistrées, des décisions et sentences rendues. Suit après un panorama faisant le point sur quelques questions d'actualité : -la dénonciation de la Convention de Washington et ses effets; -les demandes de récusation d'arbitres; -la compétence du Cirdi; -le recours en annulation contre les sentences Cirdi; -la détermination du droit applicable par les arbitres Cirdi. La troisième partie de la chronique est dédiée au commentaire plus approfondi de quelques décisions.
The notion of Investment : New controversies
2008
International audience
Some Thoughts on the Independence of Party-Appointed Expert in International Arbitration
2021
Participation of experts in both commercial arbitration proceedings and investment arbitration proceedings is a well-known phenomenon for decades. A trend asking for parties-appointed experts to be independent is under development since the end of the twentieth century. The aim of this chapter is, at first, to make the point on this issue by analysing some of the most important current rules dedicated to international arbitration. The observation to be made is that the evolution described is not that developed so far in international arbitration. In a second time the need and relevance of this new requirement are addressed. It appears then that the meaning of this demand is far from being c…
"L'implication d'investisseurs étrangers dans certaines violations des droits de l'homme"
2006
National audience
The Full Protection and Security Standard in Investment Law: A Specific Obligation?
2019
This chapter aims to demonstrate that full protection and security and fair and equitable treatment are two different standards that don’t apply under the same circumstances and have different legal status. After a historical overview (Sect. 1) intended to show how the conflation between the two has emerged over the centuries, emphasis is put on the nature and the scope of application of the full protection and security standard when compared to the fair and equitable treatment standard (Sects. 2 and 3). The next section of the current chapter introduces the idea that full protection and security is to be read in light of another provision often found in international investment agreements:…
Using GATS Article II to Resort to Investment Arbitration
2020
It is widely known that links between international investment law and World Trade Organization (WTO) rules—which are part of competition law at the global level—are numerous. But is it possible to use a WTO rule to resort to investment arbitration? This is what a corporation from Luxembourg attempted to do recently as a consequence of a dispute arising from an investment made in the airport sector in Senegal. Since Luxembourg had no investment treaty with the investor’s host state, the claimant sought to establish the jurisdiction of an investment tribunal by combining the most-favoured-nation clause provided in General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) Article II and the investor-stat…