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Katia Fach Gómez, Key Duties of International Investment Arbitrators: A Transnational Study of Legal and Ethical Dilemmas, New York, Springer, 2019, 222 pp, €114.39, ISBN 978-3-319-98127-7

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2020

Jose Gustavo Prieto Munoz
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , September 2020 , pp. 819 - 822
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© Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law 2020

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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Turin - Law Department (Project Dipartimento di Eccellenza MIUR 2018–2022), [[email protected]].

References

1 Speech by H.E. Mr. Abdulqawi A. Yusuf, President of the International Court of Justice, on the Occasion of the Seventy-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly, 25 October 2018.

2 Ibid.

3 N. Bernasconi-Osterwalder and M. D. Brauch, Is “Moonlighting” a Problem? The role of ICJ judges in ISDS (2017).

4 Ibid.

5 K. Fach Gómez, Key Duties of International Investment Arbitrators: A Transnational Study of Legal and Ethical Dilemmas (2019), 191–203.

6 Ibid., at 11.

7 See, for instance, W. Alschner, ‘The Global Laboratory of Investment Law Reform Alternatives’, (2018) AJIL Unbound, 237–43, at 240; C. Titi, ‘Who’s Afraid of Reform? Beware the Risk of Fragmentation’, ibid., 232–6, at 233.

8 A. Roberts and T. St. John, ‘Uncitral and Isds Reforms: Battles over Naming and Framing’, EJIL:TALK!, 30 April 2019, available at www.ejiltalk.org/uncitral-and-isds-reforms-battles-over-naming-and-framing/.

9 UNCTAD United Nations Conference On Trade And Development, IIA 2013, Issue Note No. 3: Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: In Search of a Roadmap (2013).

10 The author refers to the approach as studying ‘duties in any ‘systematic sense’ (p 7).

11 See Art. 8.30, Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada, of the one part, and the European Union and its Member States, of the other part, OJ L 11 (14.1.2017), available at www.ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ceta/ceta-chapter-by-chapter/.

12 A version of the text can be found at www.globalarbitrationreview.com/digital_assets/820bcdd9-08b5-4bb5-a81e-d69e6c6735ce/Draft-Model-BIT-NL-2018.pdf.

13 Supra note 5, at 79.

14 Ibid., at 123–5.

15 Ibid., at 161–6.

16 Ibid., at 177.

17 Ibid., at 26.

18 Ibid., at 191–203.

19 Ibid., at 120–54.

20 Ibid., at 199.

21 For an analysis and critique of public law approaches in International Investment Law see J. E. Alvarez, ‘“Beware: Boundary Crossings” – a Critical Appraisal of Public Law Approaches to International Investment Law’, (2016) 17 Journal of World Investment and Trade.

22 A. Bogdandy and I. Venzke, In Whose Name? A Public Law Theory of International Adjudication (2014), 85–90.

23 For instance, see the Resolution on Judicial Ethics Adopted by the Plenary ECtHR on 23 June 2008, available at www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Resolution_Judicial_Ethics_ENG.pdf.