Table of Contents:
  • The juridical foundations of investment treaty arbitration
  • Applicable laws
  • Taxonomy of preliminary issues relating to jurisdiction and admissibility in investment treaty arbitration
  • Consent to the arbitration of investment disputes
  • Investment
  • Jurisdiction ratione materiae
  • Jurisdiction ratione personae
  • Jurisdiction ratione temporis
  • The obligation to accord most-favoured-nation treatment and the jurisdiction of an investment treaty tribunal
  • Admissibility : contractual choice of forum
  • Admissibility : shareholder claims
  • Admissibility : dispositions relating to the legal and beneficial ownership of the investment
  • Admissability : denial of benefits.