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August 28, 2012

Montenegro signs ICSID Con­ven­tion

The signing ceremony which took place on 19 July 2012 was attended by Srdjan Darmanović, Ambassador of Montenegro to the United States and Marija Petrović, First Secretary of the Embassy of Montenegro to the United States and, on behalf of the Convention, by Meg Kinnear, Secretary-General of ICSID.

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November 14, 2011

Pre­ced­ence in In­vest­ment Ar­bit­ra­tion

In recent decades, investment arbitration has continued to be an expanding category of public international law. This growth is fueled by the fact that the law applied to international investment disputes is derived from numerous sources. Examples include bilateral investment treaties (“BITs”),…

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June 1, 2011

Re­vi­sion of Ar­bit­ral Awards due to Newly Dis­covered Facts or Evid­ence: A Cyc­list’s Tour de Suisse

In a judgment dated 6 October 2010, Bakker vs. Union Cycliste Internationale, the Federal Swiss Supreme Court (“Supreme Court”) refused to grant the revision of two arbitral awards rendered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (“CAS”) involving a Dutch professional cyclist (“Applicant”). In the…

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