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A NEW STRATOSPHERE? INVESTMENT TREATY ARBITRATION AS ‘INTERNATIONALIZED PUBLIC LAW’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2015

Caroline Foster
Caroline Foster*
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The University of Auckland, New Zealand, [email protected].
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Abstract

The idea of investment treaty arbitration as public law is in tension with the concept of international law as a law between representative public agencies. This concept of international law is valuable for its capacity to progress a broad range of public policy aims in an integrated and coordinated manner, including aims extending beyond the economic sphere such as international social, environmental, cultural and related aims. The probable effect on this concept of international law of a radical ‘internationalized public law’ approach to investment treaty arbitration requires further thought, especially with regard to the potential implications of recognizing investor rights under international law.

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comparative public lawcompensationinternational public lawinvestment treaty arbitrationinvestor rightspublic lawremediesreparationState responsibility
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International & Comparative Law Quarterly , Volume 64 , Issue 2 , April 2015 , pp. 461 - 485
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Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2015 

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77 Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID Convention), open for signature 18 March 1965, entry into force 14 October 1966, 4 ILM 524 (1965); Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York 1958) (the New York Convention), open for signature 10 June 1958, entry into force 7 June 1959, 330 UNTS 38 (1959). Van Harten and Loughlin (n 36) 127–37. Van Harten (n 5) 5.

78 Schill, ‘Crafting the International Economic Order’ (n 5) 410–12.

79 Van Harten and Loughlin (n 36) 146.

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91 Schill, ‘W(h)ither Fragmentation?’ (n 11) 880, fn 23; Roberts (n 9) 37.

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95 Wälde, ‘The Specific Nature of Investment Arbitration’ (n 14) 92. This view has also been adopted by tribunals. See Corn Products International, Inc. v United Mexican States, ICSID Case No ARB (AF)/04/1 (NAFTA) Decision on Responsibility, 15 January 2008, paras 165–176; Cargill, Incorporated v United Mexican States, ICSID Case No ARB(AF)/05/2 (NAFTA), Award, 18 September 2009, paras 423–428. Interestingly the language of paras 82–83 of the Separate Opinion of Arthur W Rovine in the earlier case of Archer Daniels Midland Company and Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas, Inc. v The United Mexican States, ICSID Case No ARB (AF)/04/5 (NAFTA), Award and Separate Opinion of 26 September 2007, refers largely to investors’ rights to redress rather than to substantive rights in terms of benefitting from guaranteed standards of treatment.

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97 M Paparinskis, ‘Investment Treaty Arbitration and the (New) Law on State Responsibility’ (2013) 24(2) EJIL 617, 626. Roberts for instance writes ‘I contend that, given that both home States and investors have an interest in vindicating investment treaty obligations, and that both have been granted a procedural mechanism for doing so, we should presume that both have been granted substantive rights under investment treaties absent clear wording to the contrary.’ Roberts, ‘State-to-State Investment Treaty Arbitration’ (n 9) 39.

98 Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (n 77) art 27. Alvarez, JE, ‘Are Corporations ‘Subjects’ of International Law?’ (2011) 9 Santa Clara Journal of International Law 13–14Google Scholar.

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101 See text accompanying notes 112–123.

102 ‘By taking up the case of one of its subjects and by resorting to diplomatic protection or international judicial proceedings on his behalf, a State is in reality asserting its own rights …’. Mavrommatis Palestine Concessions Case (1924) PCIJ Ser A No 2, 12. See Douglas, ‘The Hybrid Foundations’ (n 2) 164–6.

103 The term ‘derivative’ is employed by Douglas, ‘The Hybrid Foundations’ (n 2) 162–3; Douglas, The International Law of Investment Claims (n 96) 11–32, discussing also how the derivative approach has been promoted within investment arbitration under the North American Free Trade Agreement. Braun (n 99) 87. See the overview of the state of play in McLachlan et al. (n 61) 61–5.

104 See (n 110).

105 Douglas, ‘The Hybrid Foundations’ (n 2) 164–5. Consider, for instance, Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Co. (Belgium v Spain) [1970] ICJ Rep 3.

106 eg Douglas, ‘The Hybrid Foundations’ (n 2) 153–4; Van Harten, Investment Treaty Arbitration and Public Law (n 5) 136.

107 LaGrand (Germany v United States of America), Judgment of 27 June 2001 (Merits) [2001] ICJ Reports 466. The relevant provision, art 36(1)(b) of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, provides that: ‘[I]f he so requests, the competent authorities of the receiving State shall, without delay, inform the consular post of the sending State if, within its consular district, a national of that State is arrested or committed to prison or to custody pending trial or is detained in any other manner. Any communication addressed to the consular post by the person arrested, in prison, custody or detention shall be forwarded by the said authorities without delay. The said authorities shall inform the person concerned without delay of his rights under this subparagraph.’ Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 1963, 596 UNTS 261, open for signature 24 April 1963, entry into force 19 March 1967. (Emphasis added.)

108 Crawford, J, The International Law Commission's Articles on State Responsibility: Introduction, Text and Commentaries (CUP 2002) 210Google Scholar, para 4 of the Commentary to art 3. (Emphasis added.)

109 Crawford, J, ‘The ILC's Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts: A Retrospect’ (2002) 96(4) AJIL 874, 887Google Scholar. Crawford has also observed that the character of investor rights will depend on the treaty in question. Crawford, J, ‘International Law as an Open System’ in Crawford, J, International Law As an Open System: Selected Essays (Cameron May 2002) 17, 36Google Scholar.

110 Parlett (n 94) 108. Parlett instances the Energy Charter Treaty, art 13(2), 17 December 1994, entry into force 16 April 1998, 2080 UNTS 100. This provision sets out a right to prompt review in domestic law in case of expropriation. Energy Charter Treaty, 17 December 1994, entry into force 16 April 1998, 2080 UNTS 100. Douglas has referred to the Austria model BIT provision on expropriation, also stating that an investor ‘shall have the right to prompt review of its case, including the valuation of its investment and the payment of compensation’. Art 5(3) Austria model BIT, vol VII International Investment Agreements: A Compendium (UNCTAD 2002) 262. Douglas, ‘The Hybrid Foundations’ (n 2) 183; Douglas, The International Law of Investment Claims (n 96) 35.

111 Paparinskis, ‘Investment Treaty Arbitration and the (New) Law on State Responsibility’ (n 97).

112 Part Two of the Articles, dealing with the content of State responsibility, is written without prejudice to any such rights. Art 33(2) of the ILC Articles, above n 158, states that ‘This Part is without prejudice to any right, arising from the international responsibility of a State, which may accrue directly to any person or entity other than a State’. See also Commentary to art 28, para (3), Crawford, above n 108, 193, and Commentary to Chapter I of Part II, General Principles, para 2, Crawford, above n 108, 192. Crawford observes that ‘Responsibility is no longer an exclusively bilateral, inter-State matter.’ Crawford, ‘International Law as an Open System’ (n 109) 29.

113 Douglas, ‘The Hybrid Foundations’ (n 2); Douglas (n 97). Crawford observes that ‘A new legal relation, directly between the investor and the responsible State, is thereby formed, if it did not already exist.’ Crawford, ‘A Retrospect’ (n 109) 888. (Emphasis added).

114 Douglas ‘The Enforcement of Environmental Norms’ (n 2) 419–20; Douglas, The International Law of Investment Claims (n 96) 35. See, previously, Douglas, ‘The Hybrid Foundations’ (n 2) 184.

115 Douglas, The International Law of Investment Claims (n 96) 35. See, previously, Douglas, ‘The Hybrid Foundations’ (n 2) 184.

116 Douglas, The International Law of Investment Claims (n 96) 35. See, previously, Douglas, ‘The Hybrid Foundations’ (n 2) 184.

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121 Douglas, ‘The Hybrid Foundations’ (n 2) 169–70, canvassing instances where States’ submissions to arbitral tribunals have been rejected. Douglas, The International Law of Investment Claims (n 96) 17–19.

122 On satisfaction as a form of reparation, see arts 34 and 37 of the International Law Commission's Articles on State Responsibility (n 109).

123 As discussed engagingly by Paparinskis (n 97).

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143 Douglas, ‘The Enforcement of Environmental Norms’ (n 2) 242.

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147 G Van Harten, ‘Investment Treaty Arbitration, Procedural Fairness, and the Rule of Law’ (n 39) 633; Schill, ‘Deference’ (n 30) 591.

148 Kingsbury, Krisch and Stewart (n 53).

149 Van Harten and Loughlin (n 36).

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151 Kingsbury declines to take a commitment to national democracy as a starting point in developing a concept of international law, in part because globalization threatens this democracy. Kingsbury, ‘International Law as Inter-Public Law’ (n 124) 193–6.

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