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EU Member States reach agreement on ECT arbitration clause

On 26 June 2024, 26 EU Member States and the EU signed a declaration regarding the non-applicability of the investor-state arbitration clause in the ECT intra-EU (Declaration). The Declaration also sought to disapply the...more

United Kingdom to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty

On 22 February 2024, the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) announced that the UK would withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) after a recent failed attempt to modernise its text....more

German court exercises universal jurisdiction: Implications for corporate criminal liability under international law

On 24 February 2021, the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) of Koblenz sentenced a former Syrian secret police officer to a prison term of four and a half years for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity (judgment...more

Beyond Brexit transition – bilateral investment treaties

Unlike the majority of EU Member States, the UK decided not to sign an agreement to terminate its intra-EU BITs earlier this year. Those treaties remain in force for the moment; however, infringement proceedings brought by...more

CJEU judgment changes landscape for investor-State arbitration in the EU

On 6 March 2018 the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) issued its judgment in Case C-284/16 Slovak Republic v Achmea BV.  The CJEU ruled that investor-State arbitration clauses in investment treaties concluded...more

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