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Mr. Jeremy Sharpe

Mr. Jeremy Sharpe
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Board of the United Nations Register of Damage (UNRoD)

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International Economic Law
Foreign Investment
Fair and Equitable Treatment
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International Economic Law
Foreign Investment
Fair and Equitable Treatment

A. Legal Instruments

Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice, San Francisco, 26 June 1945.

Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights, Tehran, 15 August 1955, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 284, p. 93.

Treaty for the Promotion and Protection of Investments, Bonn, 25 November 1959, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 457, p. 24.

Comprehensive Trade and Economic Agreement between Canada and the European Union, Brussels, 30 October 2016.

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, Santiago, 8 March 2018.

B. Jurisprudence

Mexico/USA General Claims Commission, L.F.H. Neer and Pauline Neer (U.S.A.) v. United Mexican States, 15 October 1926.

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, ADF Group Inc. v. United States of America, ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)/00/1, Award of 9 January 2003.

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, Técnicas Medioambientales Tecmed, S.A. v. The United Mexican States, ICSID Case No. ARB (AF)/00/2, Award of 29 May 2003.

Arbitral Tribunal, Saluka Investments B.V. v. The Czech Republic, Partial Award of 17 March 2006.

International Court of Justice, Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy: Greece intervening), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 2012, p. 99

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, Electrabel S.A. v. Republic of Hungary, ICSID Case No. ARB/07/19, Award of 25 November 2015.

International Court of Justice, Certain Iranian Assets (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 2023, p. 51.

C. Documents

Draft Convention on Investments Abroad, April 1959.

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, “Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard in International Investment Law,” OECD Working Papers on International Investment, No. 2004/03, 2004.

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, “Fair and Equitable Treatment: A Sequel”, 2012.

D. Doctrine

N. Angelet, “Fair and Equitable Treatment”, in Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2023.

R. Dolzer, “Fair and Equitable Treatment: A Key Standard in Investment Treaties”, in International Lawyer, vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 87-106, 2005.

P. Dumberry, Fair and Equitable Treatment: Its Interaction with the Minimum Standard and Its Customary Status, Brill, Leiden, 2017.

R. Kläger, Fair and Equitable Treatment in International Investment Law, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011.

U. Kriebaum, R. Dolzer & C. Schreuer, Principles of International Investment Law, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022.

C. McLachlan, L. Shore & M. Weiniger, International Investment Arbitration: Substantive Principles, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017.

M. Paparinskis, The International Minimum Standard and Fair and Equitable Treatment, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013.

D. Purisch, “Fair and Equitable Treatment, Non-Impairment and Effective Means Protections: The ICJ’s Judgment in Certain Iranian Assets,” ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal, Vol. 39, Issue 3 (2024)

A. Reinisch & C. Schreuer, International Protection of Investments: The Substantive Standards, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020.

S. W. Schill, “Fair and Equitable Treatment under Investment Treaties as an Embodiment of the Rule of Law,” in International Law and Justice Working Paper, 2006/6 (Global Administrative Law Series).

S. W. Schill, “Fair and Equitable Treatment, the Rule of Law, and Comparative Public Law”, in S. W. Schill (ed.), International Investment Law and Comparative Public Law, Oxford University press, Oxford, 2010.

J. K. Sharpe, “The Minimum Standard of Treatment, Glamis Gold, and Neer’s Enduring Influence,” in M. Kinnear and al. (eds.), Building International Investment Law: The First 50 Years of ICSID, Wolters Kluwer Law International, Alphen aan den Rijn, 2016.

I. Tudor, The Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard in the International Law of Foreign Investment, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008.
K. Vandevelde, The First Bilateral Investment Treaties, Oxford university Press, Oxford, 2017.

E. Additional references

Searchable database of international investment awards, decisions, and related material: italaw.com

international law and arbitration material and search engine: jusmundi.com

United nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD) searchable database of International Investment Agreements: International Investment Agreements Navigator