CIAO DATE: 10/2010
September 2010
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
In his recent article, “Thinking twice about a gold rush: Pacific Rim v. El Salvador” (Columbia FDI Perspectives, No. 23, May 24, 2010), Professor Gus Van Harten uses the PacRim v. El Salvador arbitration, pending at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), as the basis for asserting a number of criticisms against the overall system of arbitration under investment treaties.
Resource link: Mining for facts: PacRim Cayman LLC v. El Salvador [PDF] - 77K