22-10-21 / Shane Doyle KC, Sarah Spottiswood — Arbitration, International
This presentation formed part of ACICA's Australian Arbitration Week 2021 program. Shane Doyle QC and Sarah Spottiswood (Level Twenty Seven Chambers) and Chiann Bao (Arbitration Chambers) explored the situations where an arbitrator might be said to have performed its office so as to be (wholly or as to particular aspects…
1-6-21 / Sarah Spottiswood — Appellate, International, Judicial Review & Administrative
Justices of the High Court of Australia have a broad discretion to follow foreign judicial decisions based on whether they consider a decision to be persuasive. But it is difficult to assess what it is about a foreign decision that makes it likely to be followed by the High Court.…
4-3-21 / Sarah Spottiswood — Arbitration, International
Investment arbitration awards often give the impression that investment treaties are designed to reflect the interests of two actors: “investors” and “states”. There are in fact a myriad of actors, or “voices”, behind each word in an investment agreement. This chapter identifies three broad categories of voices: voices inside, outside…
8-1-21 / Sarah Spottiswood — International
Public participation in the investment treaty-making process has increased over time. Historically, public participation has been the subject of scholarly discussion in the field of democratic theory and has been most commonly observed in societies and political systems giving effect to the ‘rule by the people’ principle. Public participation has…
30-12-19 / Sarah Spottiswood — International
‘International Dispute Settlement from the Standpoint of States’, International Law Association Regional Seminars Series, University of East Anglia, December 2019.
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