Suggestions for the creation of permanent investment courts have been formulated for decades, but only recently they started taking actual institutional form. In particular, the European Commission has been pushing for a court-like mechanism for investment disputes in several recent trade negotiations. Such a framework was included in the EU treaties with Vietnam and Canada,...
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Rules of Ethics and Qualifications of EU Investment Court Judges
This paper focuses on the new rules on qualifications of, and ethics applicable to, the members of investment tribunals to be established under the investment chapters of various free trade agreements (FTAs), such as the CETA the TTIP proposal, and EU – Vietnam FTA. This paper first seeks to identify whether the rules live up...