Investor-State Arbitration Series, Paper No. 14
This paper sets out the range of options that appear to the author to be reasonably available to the Government of Canada and other developed democracies as they determine the policies to be adopted with respect to the reform of investor-state arbitration in existing and future international investment agreements.
Launched in November 2014, this project addresses a central policy issue of contemporary international investment protection law: is investor-state arbitration (ISA) suitable between developed liberal democratic countries? The project reviews legal and policy reactions to ISAs taking place within these countries and summarizes the substantive grounds upon which claims are being made and their impact on public policy making by governments. The project reviews, critically assesses and critiques arguments made in favour and against the growing use of ISA between developed democracies — paying particular attention to Canada, the European Union, Japan, South Korea, the United States and Australia, where civil society groups and academic critics have come out against ISA.
