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Research paper thumbnail of Ethics in CETA.Article 8.30

Fach Gómez, Katia, " Article 8.30: Ethics in CETA" in Bungenberg / Reinisch (eds), CETA Investment Law, Article-by-Article Commentary, Beck, 2021, pp. 654-704. , 2021

This commentary focuses on Article 8.30 CETA, which is entitled ‘Ethics’ and sets ethical rules f... more This commentary focuses on Article 8.30 CETA, which is entitled ‘Ethics’ and sets ethical rules for the Members of the CETA Tribunal and the Appellate Tribunal. The European Commission presents this precept in a succinct paragraph, highlighting the key issues addressed and the main novelties with respect to the traditional ISDS system:
CETA establishes strict rules of ethical behaviour for the Members of the Tribunal which guarantee their full independence and impartiality. Situations where a Member of the Tribunal can act as a counsel or an expert in pending or new investment disputes are prohibited. Further, CETA has a binding code of conduct for the Members of the Tribunal. The code is based on the ethical rules of the International Bar Association, subject to further revision. It prevents conflicts of interest. In case a Member of the Tribunal is found not to comply with the code, he/she will be replaced. That decision is taken by an independent outside party -the President of the International Court of Justice and not by the remaining Members of the division of the Tribunal hearing the case as is often the case in existing agreements.
The commentary that begins here provides a detailed analysis of the issues emphasised by the Commission and is structured thus: a brief ‘Introduction and Overview’ is followed by the ‘Spirit and Purpose’ of the provision, after which the ‘Drafting History’ is systematized. Article 8.30 CETA is divided into four paragraphs and the same framework is used in the comprehensive analysis of the CETA’s ethics rules for adjudicators. Finally, the brief ‘Conclusion’ raises some last questions that may lead to future research with relevance for the practice of investment dispute resolution.

Research paper thumbnail of The protection of human rights and the system for the resolution of disputes derived from international investments/La protección de los derechos humanos y el sistema de resolución de controversias derivadas de inversiones internacionales

XVIII Anuario de los Cursos de Derechos Humanos de Donostia-San Sebastian, 2019

This paper reflects on the role granted to human rights in the current system of inversor-state d... more This paper reflects on the role granted to human rights in the current system of inversor-state dispute settlement. It analyzes a good number of investment awards and last-generation International Investment Agreements

Research paper thumbnail of Drafting a Twenty-First Century Code of Conduct for International Investment Adjudicators

An "ethics explosion" is emerging in the international investment arena in many different ways. A... more An "ethics explosion" is emerging in the international investment arena in many different ways. Along with the EU's strong desire to regulate the ethical aspects of adjudicators' duties in its latest generation of IIAs, whether already in force or still under negotiation, a growing number of non-European IIAs and Model Agreements also contain provisions that include references to ethics and sometimes additionally provide a code of conduct for investment adjudicators. As a logical consequence of this, ICSID, hitherto the heavyweight par excellence in the investment resolution field, has also underlined the growing importance of ethical issues in the course of its ongoing rule amendment process. In the same vein, since 2017, the UNCITRAL Working Group III has been reflecting on the need for and potential content of an Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform and has devoted special attention to ISDS court members. As the winds of change are pointing towards the creation of a Multilateral Investment Tribunal, the need

Research paper thumbnail of The Duty of Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest in International Investment Arbitration

SSRN Electronic Journal

This chapter offers some reflections on conflicts of interest in the international investment mil... more This chapter offers some reflections on conflicts of interest in the international investment milieu and their relationship with the duty of disclosure. Special attention is paid to IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration, and its present and future relevance in the investment context. The chapter also focuses on three highly controversial issues of the contemporary ISDS system: repeat appointment, issue conflict and multiple hatting.

Research paper thumbnail of The Role of Mediation in International Commercial Disputes: Reflections on some Technological, Ethical and Educational Challenges

Titi/Fach, Mediation in International Commercial and Investment Disputes, Oxford University Press, 2019., 2019

The purpose of this chapter is to reflect on the role currently played by mediation in the resolu... more The purpose of this chapter is to reflect on the role currently played by mediation in the resolution of international commercial disputes. This objective is both broad and ambitious and the chapter benefits from the fact that this book contains over a dozen contributions from prestigious authors in the mediation sector who adroitly address a broad range of aspects of international commercial mediation. The chapter’s main focus is consequently the outlining and discussing of a specific series of issues that aim to complement the analysis developed by the other contributors in this edited volume. Section II therefore explores the new meaning that some scholars have attached to the widely used acronym ADR (alternative dispute resolution). Considering mediation an important part of the ‘appropriate dispute resolution’ mechanisms available to commercial disputants suggests that a new light is shining through this important sector and the principles that it embraces, such as access to ju...

Research paper thumbnail of Legal Obstacles to International Investments in Venezuela and Anti-Corruption Policy (Obsttculos Legales a Las Inversiones Internacionales En Venezuela Y Polltica Anticorrupciin)

SSRN Electronic Journal

This article begins by presenting some recent statistical data on rule of law, investment, and co... more This article begins by presenting some recent statistical data on rule of law, investment, and corruption in Venezuela. It focuses afterwards on analysing the 2014 Venezuelan Anti-Corruption Law, and it develops various arguments that may lead to question this Law ́s real objectives from an international investment ́s perspective. The paper reflects on whether the current Venezuelan government might use this 2014 Anti-Corruption Law against foreign investors. The cataclysm that the country is currently experiencing does not bode well for international investments.

Research paper thumbnail of Comparative Law for Spanish–English Speaking Lawyers

Comparative Law for Spanish–English Speaking Lawyers, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of The US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: should it leave a door open for non-legal arbitrators

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 2016

This article reflects on the suitability of including non-legal arbitrators in certain investment... more This article reflects on the suitability of including non-legal arbitrators in certain investment arbitrations. It presents different mechanisms that have been used in the investment arbitration context to aid legal arbitrators with scientific-technical issues and contemplates the drawbacks of this external competence. After analyzing various sectors in which non-legal experts provide internal competence (international inspection boards, specialized national courts, commercial arbitration tribunals, and interstate arbitration tribunals), the article concludes that incorporating arbitrators with scientific-technical competence into international investment tribunals on an ad casum basis may not be such a farfetched idea. Finally, several lege ferenda proposals that would achieve the common goal of not barring non-legal " judges " from the future US-EU Investment Court are put forward.

Research paper thumbnail of Enforcing global law: international arbitration and informal regulatory instruments

The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 2015

This paper starts from the assumption that international arbitration easily fits in with a plural... more This paper starts from the assumption that international arbitration easily fits in with a pluralist conception of global law. Globalization has created new informal instruments of regulation, and arbitration is an efficient tool for enforcing them. First, the paper presents a brief analysis of the most noteworthy international initiatives in the area of transnational legal indicators. It will become clear how these indirect regulatory instruments are contributing to the creation of a new regulatory profile in the area of arbitration. Second, a number of examples will show that both commercial and investment arbitration are receptive to the multiple appearances of legal pluralism in the arbitration arena. Arbitral awards are turning ever more frequently to instruments created and managed by the private sector-i.e., codes of conduct, economic indexes, economic indicators, financial premiums, valuation methods, audits-to resolve the complex disputes arising from international business. Third, sectorial arbitrations are striking examples of how private sector initiatives implement sophisticated private conflict resolution mechanisms. The paper will present a particularly detailed analysis of the international sports sector, in which an interesting symbiosis can be discerned: on the one hand this non-state sector has unilaterally created a large number of new instruments of global regulation-i.e., sports constitutions, charters, statutes, codes-that are resorting to arbitration to increase their independence from the public sector. On the other hand, sports arbitration-essentially, the CAS-is meanwhile significantly contributing to the sector's maturity by actively participating in the consolidation of lex sportiva by means of its awards. Finally, the paper concludes with some reflections and ideas for further discussion.

Research paper thumbnail of The Transformative Potential of Technology in Higher Education: The Shortcomings of MOOC's, the Benefits of Face-to-Face Learning and the Hybrid Model as a Possible Optimal Solution (a 2013 Spanish case study). Rengel-Fach

Research paper thumbnail of Informe del Comité Asesor sobre Política Económica Internacional respecto del Modelo estadounidense de Tratado Bilateral de Inversiones

ARBITRAJE: Revista de arbitraje comercial y …, 2010

Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Base de datos de artículos de revistas, ...

Research paper thumbnail of Algunas consideraciones en torno al convenio de Unidroit sobre bienes culturales robados o exportados ilegalemente

Anuario español de Derecho Internacional …, 2004

Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Base de datos de artículos de revistas, ...

Research paper thumbnail of La contaminación transfronteriza en derecho internacional privado: Estudio de derecho aplicable

Acceso de usuarios registrados. Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario Contraseña. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Die j"ungste konkursrechtliche Rechtsprechung des EuGH: Schritte zu mehr Rechtssicherheit

Research paper thumbnail of La nueva regulación de las obligaciones extracontractuales y del derecho de cosas en derecho internacional privado alemán

Revista española de derecho internacional, 1999

Acceso de usuarios registrados. Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario Contraseña. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Extrajudicial Resolution of International Consumer Disputes in the EU (Resolución Extrajudicial de Conflictos de Consumo Transfronterizos en la Unión Europea)( …

Research paper thumbnail of Construyendo Un Nuevo Derecho Internacional De Las Inversiones: Las Propuestas Del Instituto Internacional Para El …

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++ Esta investigación se ha llevado a cabo gracias a una Ayuda concedida en el año 2009 por el Mi... more ++ Esta investigación se ha llevado a cabo gracias a una Ayuda concedida en el año 2009 por el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Canadá (Programa “Understanding Canada”). El presente artículo se concluyó en el mes de agosto de 2009 y en él se incluyen referencias ...

Research paper thumbnail of Propuesta de reglamento del parlamento europeo y del consejo, relativo a la ley aplicable a las obligaciones extracontractuales (" Roma II")

Cuestiones actuales del derecho mercantil …, 2005

Información del artículo Propuesta de reglamento del parlamento europeo y del consejo, relativo a... more Información del artículo Propuesta de reglamento del parlamento europeo y del consejo, relativo a la ley aplicable a las obligaciones extracontractuales ("Roma II").

Research paper thumbnail of Transposición de la directiva 94/47: Multipropiedad (timesharing)

Noticias de la Unión Europea, 2000

Acceso de usuarios registrados. Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario Contraseña. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Proponiendo un decálogo conciliador para Latinoamérica y CIADI

Revista Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, 2010

En Latinoamérica se viene apreciando una actitud crecientemente hostil hacia el sistema de soluci... more En Latinoamérica se viene apreciando una actitud crecientemente hostil hacia el sistema de solución de conflictos en materia de inversiones internacionales auspiciado por CIADI. Este artículo reflexiona sobre esta realidad y propone un decálogo de medidas que permitirían conciliar la existencia de ICSID con las reclamaciones de Latinoamérica en pos de un sistema que sea más favorable para los países en vía de desarrollo. Palabras clave: Latinoamérica, inversiones internacionales, arbitraje de inversiones, Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias Relativas a Inversiones, órgano arbitral regional.

Research paper thumbnail of Ethics in CETA.Article 8.30

Fach Gómez, Katia, " Article 8.30: Ethics in CETA" in Bungenberg / Reinisch (eds), CETA Investment Law, Article-by-Article Commentary, Beck, 2021, pp. 654-704. , 2021

This commentary focuses on Article 8.30 CETA, which is entitled ‘Ethics’ and sets ethical rules f... more This commentary focuses on Article 8.30 CETA, which is entitled ‘Ethics’ and sets ethical rules for the Members of the CETA Tribunal and the Appellate Tribunal. The European Commission presents this precept in a succinct paragraph, highlighting the key issues addressed and the main novelties with respect to the traditional ISDS system:
CETA establishes strict rules of ethical behaviour for the Members of the Tribunal which guarantee their full independence and impartiality. Situations where a Member of the Tribunal can act as a counsel or an expert in pending or new investment disputes are prohibited. Further, CETA has a binding code of conduct for the Members of the Tribunal. The code is based on the ethical rules of the International Bar Association, subject to further revision. It prevents conflicts of interest. In case a Member of the Tribunal is found not to comply with the code, he/she will be replaced. That decision is taken by an independent outside party -the President of the International Court of Justice and not by the remaining Members of the division of the Tribunal hearing the case as is often the case in existing agreements.
The commentary that begins here provides a detailed analysis of the issues emphasised by the Commission and is structured thus: a brief ‘Introduction and Overview’ is followed by the ‘Spirit and Purpose’ of the provision, after which the ‘Drafting History’ is systematized. Article 8.30 CETA is divided into four paragraphs and the same framework is used in the comprehensive analysis of the CETA’s ethics rules for adjudicators. Finally, the brief ‘Conclusion’ raises some last questions that may lead to future research with relevance for the practice of investment dispute resolution.

Research paper thumbnail of The protection of human rights and the system for the resolution of disputes derived from international investments/La protección de los derechos humanos y el sistema de resolución de controversias derivadas de inversiones internacionales

XVIII Anuario de los Cursos de Derechos Humanos de Donostia-San Sebastian, 2019

This paper reflects on the role granted to human rights in the current system of inversor-state d... more This paper reflects on the role granted to human rights in the current system of inversor-state dispute settlement. It analyzes a good number of investment awards and last-generation International Investment Agreements

Research paper thumbnail of Drafting a Twenty-First Century Code of Conduct for International Investment Adjudicators

An "ethics explosion" is emerging in the international investment arena in many different ways. A... more An "ethics explosion" is emerging in the international investment arena in many different ways. Along with the EU's strong desire to regulate the ethical aspects of adjudicators' duties in its latest generation of IIAs, whether already in force or still under negotiation, a growing number of non-European IIAs and Model Agreements also contain provisions that include references to ethics and sometimes additionally provide a code of conduct for investment adjudicators. As a logical consequence of this, ICSID, hitherto the heavyweight par excellence in the investment resolution field, has also underlined the growing importance of ethical issues in the course of its ongoing rule amendment process. In the same vein, since 2017, the UNCITRAL Working Group III has been reflecting on the need for and potential content of an Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform and has devoted special attention to ISDS court members. As the winds of change are pointing towards the creation of a Multilateral Investment Tribunal, the need

Research paper thumbnail of The Duty of Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest in International Investment Arbitration

SSRN Electronic Journal

This chapter offers some reflections on conflicts of interest in the international investment mil... more This chapter offers some reflections on conflicts of interest in the international investment milieu and their relationship with the duty of disclosure. Special attention is paid to IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration, and its present and future relevance in the investment context. The chapter also focuses on three highly controversial issues of the contemporary ISDS system: repeat appointment, issue conflict and multiple hatting.

Research paper thumbnail of The Role of Mediation in International Commercial Disputes: Reflections on some Technological, Ethical and Educational Challenges

Titi/Fach, Mediation in International Commercial and Investment Disputes, Oxford University Press, 2019., 2019

The purpose of this chapter is to reflect on the role currently played by mediation in the resolu... more The purpose of this chapter is to reflect on the role currently played by mediation in the resolution of international commercial disputes. This objective is both broad and ambitious and the chapter benefits from the fact that this book contains over a dozen contributions from prestigious authors in the mediation sector who adroitly address a broad range of aspects of international commercial mediation. The chapter’s main focus is consequently the outlining and discussing of a specific series of issues that aim to complement the analysis developed by the other contributors in this edited volume. Section II therefore explores the new meaning that some scholars have attached to the widely used acronym ADR (alternative dispute resolution). Considering mediation an important part of the ‘appropriate dispute resolution’ mechanisms available to commercial disputants suggests that a new light is shining through this important sector and the principles that it embraces, such as access to ju...

Research paper thumbnail of Legal Obstacles to International Investments in Venezuela and Anti-Corruption Policy (Obsttculos Legales a Las Inversiones Internacionales En Venezuela Y Polltica Anticorrupciin)

SSRN Electronic Journal

This article begins by presenting some recent statistical data on rule of law, investment, and co... more This article begins by presenting some recent statistical data on rule of law, investment, and corruption in Venezuela. It focuses afterwards on analysing the 2014 Venezuelan Anti-Corruption Law, and it develops various arguments that may lead to question this Law ́s real objectives from an international investment ́s perspective. The paper reflects on whether the current Venezuelan government might use this 2014 Anti-Corruption Law against foreign investors. The cataclysm that the country is currently experiencing does not bode well for international investments.

Research paper thumbnail of Comparative Law for Spanish–English Speaking Lawyers

Comparative Law for Spanish–English Speaking Lawyers, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of The US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: should it leave a door open for non-legal arbitrators

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 2016

This article reflects on the suitability of including non-legal arbitrators in certain investment... more This article reflects on the suitability of including non-legal arbitrators in certain investment arbitrations. It presents different mechanisms that have been used in the investment arbitration context to aid legal arbitrators with scientific-technical issues and contemplates the drawbacks of this external competence. After analyzing various sectors in which non-legal experts provide internal competence (international inspection boards, specialized national courts, commercial arbitration tribunals, and interstate arbitration tribunals), the article concludes that incorporating arbitrators with scientific-technical competence into international investment tribunals on an ad casum basis may not be such a farfetched idea. Finally, several lege ferenda proposals that would achieve the common goal of not barring non-legal " judges " from the future US-EU Investment Court are put forward.

Research paper thumbnail of Enforcing global law: international arbitration and informal regulatory instruments

The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 2015

This paper starts from the assumption that international arbitration easily fits in with a plural... more This paper starts from the assumption that international arbitration easily fits in with a pluralist conception of global law. Globalization has created new informal instruments of regulation, and arbitration is an efficient tool for enforcing them. First, the paper presents a brief analysis of the most noteworthy international initiatives in the area of transnational legal indicators. It will become clear how these indirect regulatory instruments are contributing to the creation of a new regulatory profile in the area of arbitration. Second, a number of examples will show that both commercial and investment arbitration are receptive to the multiple appearances of legal pluralism in the arbitration arena. Arbitral awards are turning ever more frequently to instruments created and managed by the private sector-i.e., codes of conduct, economic indexes, economic indicators, financial premiums, valuation methods, audits-to resolve the complex disputes arising from international business. Third, sectorial arbitrations are striking examples of how private sector initiatives implement sophisticated private conflict resolution mechanisms. The paper will present a particularly detailed analysis of the international sports sector, in which an interesting symbiosis can be discerned: on the one hand this non-state sector has unilaterally created a large number of new instruments of global regulation-i.e., sports constitutions, charters, statutes, codes-that are resorting to arbitration to increase their independence from the public sector. On the other hand, sports arbitration-essentially, the CAS-is meanwhile significantly contributing to the sector's maturity by actively participating in the consolidation of lex sportiva by means of its awards. Finally, the paper concludes with some reflections and ideas for further discussion.

Research paper thumbnail of The Transformative Potential of Technology in Higher Education: The Shortcomings of MOOC's, the Benefits of Face-to-Face Learning and the Hybrid Model as a Possible Optimal Solution (a 2013 Spanish case study). Rengel-Fach

Research paper thumbnail of Informe del Comité Asesor sobre Política Económica Internacional respecto del Modelo estadounidense de Tratado Bilateral de Inversiones

ARBITRAJE: Revista de arbitraje comercial y …, 2010

Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Base de datos de artículos de revistas, ...

Research paper thumbnail of Algunas consideraciones en torno al convenio de Unidroit sobre bienes culturales robados o exportados ilegalemente

Anuario español de Derecho Internacional …, 2004

Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Base de datos de artículos de revistas, ...

Research paper thumbnail of La contaminación transfronteriza en derecho internacional privado: Estudio de derecho aplicable

Acceso de usuarios registrados. Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario Contraseña. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Die j"ungste konkursrechtliche Rechtsprechung des EuGH: Schritte zu mehr Rechtssicherheit

Research paper thumbnail of La nueva regulación de las obligaciones extracontractuales y del derecho de cosas en derecho internacional privado alemán

Revista española de derecho internacional, 1999

Acceso de usuarios registrados. Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario Contraseña. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Extrajudicial Resolution of International Consumer Disputes in the EU (Resolución Extrajudicial de Conflictos de Consumo Transfronterizos en la Unión Europea)( …

Research paper thumbnail of Construyendo Un Nuevo Derecho Internacional De Las Inversiones: Las Propuestas Del Instituto Internacional Para El …

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++ Esta investigación se ha llevado a cabo gracias a una Ayuda concedida en el año 2009 por el Mi... more ++ Esta investigación se ha llevado a cabo gracias a una Ayuda concedida en el año 2009 por el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Canadá (Programa “Understanding Canada”). El presente artículo se concluyó en el mes de agosto de 2009 y en él se incluyen referencias ...

Research paper thumbnail of Propuesta de reglamento del parlamento europeo y del consejo, relativo a la ley aplicable a las obligaciones extracontractuales (" Roma II")

Cuestiones actuales del derecho mercantil …, 2005

Información del artículo Propuesta de reglamento del parlamento europeo y del consejo, relativo a... more Información del artículo Propuesta de reglamento del parlamento europeo y del consejo, relativo a la ley aplicable a las obligaciones extracontractuales ("Roma II").

Research paper thumbnail of Transposición de la directiva 94/47: Multipropiedad (timesharing)

Noticias de la Unión Europea, 2000

Acceso de usuarios registrados. Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario Contraseña. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Proponiendo un decálogo conciliador para Latinoamérica y CIADI

Revista Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, 2010

En Latinoamérica se viene apreciando una actitud crecientemente hostil hacia el sistema de soluci... more En Latinoamérica se viene apreciando una actitud crecientemente hostil hacia el sistema de solución de conflictos en materia de inversiones internacionales auspiciado por CIADI. Este artículo reflexiona sobre esta realidad y propone un decálogo de medidas que permitirían conciliar la existencia de ICSID con las reclamaciones de Latinoamérica en pos de un sistema que sea más favorable para los países en vía de desarrollo. Palabras clave: Latinoamérica, inversiones internacionales, arbitraje de inversiones, Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias Relativas a Inversiones, órgano arbitral regional.