International Energy Investment Disputes Settlement Involving Asian States

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.215How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Asian States, Settlement of Investment Disputes, Energy Charter, Energy Investment

Abstract

This article aims to describe a comprehensive map of the legal framework for investor-state relations in the international energy industry, since it has been re-established by the tremendous growth of international investment law in recent years. It would then proceed to provide assessment of the emergence of international energy investment disputes involving Asian states, whether international investment law had developed only limited tools for the protection of investors in energy sector. However, recent arbitral awards have shown an increasing awareness of the need to protect investors as well as states. Arbitrators have not only considered investment related values in the context of international energy investment disputes, but also balanced the different values at stake. This article asks whether in this legal setting the extensive protections in international energy law are able to keep stability for Asian states by means of case studies of disputes between investors and contracting parties of Energy Charter. This article seeks to provide a possible look forward and a concluding assessment, albeit provisional one. It addresses new challenges that are emerging in investor-state relations in areas of Asia. Finally, the concluding assessment to this study consider whether the various steps taken have in fact lead to an improvement of international energy investment disputes settlement among Asian states.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhengyi Zhang
AU  - Qiwei Wu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - International Energy Investment Disputes Settlement Involving Asian States
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 549
EP  - 558
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.215
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.215
ID  - Zhang2021
ER  -