Contract Interpretation in Investment Treaty Arbitration A Theory of the Incidental Issue
For the first time, a monograph provides a systematic, in-depth account of contract interpretation in investment treaty arbitration and offers a conceptual paradigm that would enhance the quality of the tribunals' reasoning
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Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
Sprache: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2022
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Ausgabe: | 1st ed |
Schriftenreihe: | International Litigation in Practice Series
v.12 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Figures and Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1 Setting the Scene
- Chapter 1 Overview of Contract Interpretation in Investment Treaty Arbitration
- 1.1 Interpretative Material: Contracts and Contractual Provisions
- 1.2 Interpretative Occasions
- 1.2.1 Jurisdiction
- 1.2.2 Attribution
- 1.2.3 Expropriation
- 1.2.4 Fair and Equitable Treatment
- 1.2.5 National Treatment and Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment
- 1.2.6 The Umbrella Clause
- 1.2.7 Compensation
- 1.3 Procedural Setting
- 1.4 Patterns for Contract Interpretation
- 1.5 Conclusion
- Part 2 Defining a Relevant Legal Frame
- Chapter 2 National Laws and Contract Interpretation
- 2.1 What Do We Know: Comparative Scholarship
- 2.2 The Concept of Contract Interpretation
- 2.3 Regulation
- 2.4 Interpretative Approaches: Good Faith and Predictability
- 2.5 Limits of Subjective-Objective and Other Dichotomies
- 2.6 Conclusion
- Chapter 3 International Law and Contract Interpretation
- 3.1 The Concept of International Law
- 3.2 Treaties
- 3.2.1 Rules on Treaty Interpretation
- 3.2.2 International Investment Agreements
- 3.2.3 Uniform Private Law Conventions
- 3.3 Customary International Law
- 3.4 General Principles of Law
- 3.5 Subsidiary Means for Determining the Content of International Law
- 3.5.1 Judicial Practice
- 3.5.2 Scholarly Publications
- 3.6 Conclusion
- Part 3 Enabling National Law
- Chapter 4 The Power of Treaty-Based Tribunals to Interpret Contracts
- 4.1 Theory and Foundation
- 4.1.1 The Concept and Types of Tribunal Powers
- 4.1.2 Contract Interpretation as an Inherent Power
- 4.1.3 Contract Interpretation as an Implied Power
- 4.2 Exercise
- 4.2.1 Contract Interpretation or Fact-Finding
- 4.2.2 Contract Interpretation or Doctrinal Assessment of Contractual Provisions under International Law
- 4.2.3 Deference
- 4.3 In a Broader Context
- 4.3.1 Similar Powers
- 4.3.1.1 The pcij
- 4.3.1.2 The icj
- 4.3.1.3 The ECtHR
- 4.3.2 Unsuitable Analogies
- 4.4 Conclusion
- Chapter 5 Contract Interpretation as the Incidental Issue
- 5.1 Incidental Issues in Private International Law
- 5.2 National Law Incidental Issues in Investment Treaty Arbitration
- 5.2.1 The Predisposition to Conceptualise Incidental Issues
- 5.2.2 Scholar Attempts to Conceptualise National Law Issues as Incidental Issues
- 5.2.3 Other Supporting Considerations (1): Direct Conceptualisation - National Law Incidental Issues before Other Public International Law Courts
- 5.2.4 Other Supporting Considerations (2): Reverse Conceptualisation - Public International Law Incidental Issues in Domestic Contexts
- 5.2.5 Contribution of Conceptualising National Law Issues as Incidental Issues
- 5.3 Contract Interpretation as the Incidental Issue in Investment Treaty Arbitration
- 5.3.1 A Legal Issue
- 5.3.2 A Separable Legal Issue
- 5.3.3 Playing a Subsidiary Role to the Principal Cause of Action
- 5.3.3.1 The Case of Contract Termination
- 5.3.3.2 The Case of Implied Terms
- 5.3.4 Posing a Question about the Applicable Law
- 5.3.5 Additional Consideration: Cases with Compound Jurisdiction
- 5.4 National Law in Operation through the Concept of an Incidental Issue
- 5.4.1 Jura Novit Curia
- 5.4.2 Expert Testimony
- 5.4.3 Why Does It Matter?
- 5.5 Conclusion
- General Conclusion
- Future Research
- List of Annexes
- Annexes
- Annex i All Known Treaty- Based Cases as of 30 January 2019
- Annex ii Cases Excluded from Assessment (Publicly Unavailable Awards and Decisions, or Available Awards and Decisions in Languages Other than English or Russian)
- Annex iii Cases with Publicly Available Awards and Decisions in English or Russian Language (the Basis for Assessment)
- Annex iv Cases with Elements of Contract Interpretation
- Annex v Cases with the Application of National Law to Contract Interpretation (interpretative rules of national laws)
- Annex vi Cases with the Application of National Law to Contract Interpretation (interpretation in light of various other rules of national laws)
- Annex vii Model bits as of 30 January 2019
- Annex viii List of Analysed bits
- Annex ix Provisions of Some Relevance for Contract Interpretationin the Selected Uniform Private Law Conventions
- Annex x iias with Reference to Conflict of Laws of the Host State
- Bibliography
- Books
- Book Chapters
- Journal articles
- Research and Working Papers
- Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law
- Lectures and Courses
- Dissertations
- Encyclopedia
- Databases
- Websites
- Reports, Preparatory Works, Various Studies and Notes
- Blogs
- Table of Legislation and Other Normative Sources
- Multilateral International Agreements
- EU Acts
- National Legislation1
- Judicial Clarifications
- List of International and Domestic Cases (Non-isds) Cases
- ECtHR
- ecj
- pcij
- icj
- Iran-USA Claims Tribunal
- Other Arbitration Cases
- Mixed Claim Commissions
- Domestic Cases
- Arbitration Rules
- Miscellaneous
- Index