Part IV International Regulation, 18 The Settlement of International Investment Disputes

This chapter concentrates on the procedural issues associated with international dispute settlement as a method of resolving differences between MNEs and host states. It is primarily concerned with the leading system for the settlement of international investment disputes set up by the World Bank, under the Washington Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes Between States and Nationals of Other States 1965 (the ICSID Convention), which established the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).1 As noted in the previous chapter,...