Transparency and Representation of the Public Interest in Investment Treaty Arbitration

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This chapter addresses one of the crucial tensions facing modern investment arbitration: that between confidentiality and privacy, on the one hand, and transparency and inclusiveness, on the other. It begins by reviewing how investment arbitration frameworks have addressed this tension so far, noting the traditional focus on confidentiality and privacy and the more recent trend towards transparency and inclusiveness of proceedings before ICSID and/or NAFTA tribunals. The chapter then compares domestic public law approaches to questions of transparency and public interest representation. Having reviewed US, English, French, German, and Greek law, it shows that domestic public law seems to accept the principle of transparency and provides for various forms of indirect public interest representation (e.g., through amicus curiae briefs) but also different forms of public interest claims. While this approach cannot be directly transposed to investment arbitration, it clearly can, and arguably should, guide the approach of investment lawyers.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Investment Law and Comparative Public Law
EditorsStephan W. Schill
Number of pages30
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date01.01.2011
Pages787-816
Article number25
ISBN (print)978-0-19-958910-4
ISBN (electronic)9780191595455
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.01.2011

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    Research areas

  • Law - Investment Arbitration, confidentiality, transparency, public interest representation, standing, judicial review, amicus curiae, briefs, privacy, inclusiveness, locus standi

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