The ICSID Arbitral Tribunal issued a partial ruling in the dispute between ConocoPhillips and Venezuela regarding the latter's 2007 taking of ConocoPhillips oil assets located in the country....
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October 04, 2013
October 04, 2013
A tribunal convened at the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled that former settlement agreements protected Chevron from paying to Ecuador a $19 billion fine for polluting the Amazon basin region...
October 04, 2013
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a District Court finding that Argentina had waived its immunity under the implied waiver and arbitral award exceptions to the Foreign...
October 01, 2013
The International Labour Organization's (ILO) Domestic Workers Convention came into force on September 5, 2013. The Convention was adopted by the ILO in 2011 and required ratification by two ILO...
September 27, 2013
A special Chamber convened by order of the Vice-President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has, by two to one, upheld a defense motion for disqualification...
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights adopted Resolution 234 concerning the right to nationality. The Commission reaffirmed that the right to nationality is a fundamental human right...