RESEARCH ESSAY QUESTIONS

Q1. In 2016, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (“UNCITRAL”) entrusted Working Group III with a broad mandate to work on the possible reform of investor-State dispute settlement (“ISDS”). Do you agree with suggestions that an “investment court” should be created to replace the current system of ad hoc arbitral tribunals for the resolution of investment disputes? If so, how should that body be designed? Critically discuss, including with reference to the materials that are before UNCITRAL’s Working Group III.