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Emily Sipiorski, Good Faith in International Investment Arbitration, Oxford University Press, 2019, 304 pp., ISBN 9780198826446, £125.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2020

Gustavo Minervini
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , December 2020 , pp. 1053 - 1056
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© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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PhD Candidate in International Law, University of Naples Federico II; Adv. LL.M. in Public International Law (cum laude), Leiden University; J.D. (summa cum laude), University of Naples Federico II [[email protected]].

References

1 M. Kotzur, ‘Good Faith (Bona fide)’, in R. Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (2008, online edition, available at opil.ouplaw.com/home/mpil); R. Kolb, ‘Principles as Sources of International Law (With Special Reference to Good Faith)’, (2006) 53 Netherlands International Law Review 1.

2 E. Sipiorski, Good Faith in International Investment Arbitration (2019), at v.

3 A. R. Ziegler and J. Baumgartner, ‘Good Faith as a General Principle of (International) Law’, in A. D. Mitchell, M. Sornarajah and T. Voon (eds.), Good Faith in International Economic Law (2015), 9, at 14–17; A. F. M. Maniruzzaman, ‘The Concept of Good Faith in International Investment Disputes – the Arbitrator’s Dilemma’, (2012) 89 Amicus Curiae: Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies 16.

4 B. Cremades, ‘Good Faith in International Arbitration’, (2012) 27 American University International Law Review 761.

5 Sipiorski, supra note 2, at 18.

6 Sipiorski, supra note 2, at 45.

7 However, one has to consider that, according to B. Cheng, General Principles of International Law as Applied by International Courts and Tribunals (1953), 105: ‘[w]hat exactly this principle implies is perhaps difficult to define’.

8 Sipiorski, supra note 2, at 47.

9 Metal-Tech LTD v. Republic of Uzbekistan, ICSID Case No. ARB/10/3, Award, 4 October 2013, paras. 421–2.

10 Corona Materials, LLC v. Dominican Republic, ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)/14/3, Award, 31 May 2016, paras. 271–9.

11 See J. Commission and R. Moloo, Procedural Issues in International Investment Arbitration (2018), 182 ff.

12 B-Mex, LLC and Others v. United Mexican States, ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)/16/3, Partial Award, 19 July 2019, para. 271.

13 Itisaluna Iraq LLC and Others v. Republic of Iraq, ICSID Case No. ARB/17/10, Award, 3 April 2020, paras. 253–61.

14 Sipiorski, supra note 2, at 234.

15 Ibid., at 235.

16 Ibid., at 238.

17 As for the relationship between good faith and FET, see passim F. M. Palombino, Fair and Equitable Treatment and the Fabric of General Principles (2018) (particularly, Ch. 4 on Legitimate Expectations).

18 T. Voon, ‘Emily Sipiorski, Good Faith in International Investment Arbitration, 2019’, (2019) 30 European Journal of International Law 1447, moves a similar criticism.

19 G. Zarra, Parallel Proceedings in Investment Arbitration (2016), 3.

20 Sipiorski, supra note 2, at 137.

21 H. Wehland, The Coordination of Multiple Proceedings in Investment Treaty Arbitration (2013), para. 1.06.

22 See C. Schreuer, ‘Multiple Proceedings’, in A. Gattini, A. Tanzi and F. Fontanelli (eds.), General Principles of Law and Investment Arbitration (2018), 152; Zarra, supra note 19, at 117–21.

23 See J. Crampin, ‘Emily Sipiorski, Good Faith in International Investment Arbitration’, (2019) 20 Journal of World Investment & Trade 935, at 955.

24 Ampal-American Israel Corporation and Others v. Arab Republic of Egypt, ICSID Case No. ARB/12/11, Decision on Jurisdiction, 1 February 2016.

25 Orascom TMT Investments Sàrl v. People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, ICSID Case No ARB/12/35, Award, 31 May 2017.

26 Caratube International Oil Company LLP and Mr Devincci Salah Hourani v. Republic of Kazakhstan, ICSID Case No ARB/13/13, Award, 27 September 2017.

27 Orascom, supra note 25, at para. 542.

28 Sipiorski, supra note 2, at 238.

29 Ibid., at 81.

30 Ibid., at 238.