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Remarks by Barry Appleton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Barry Appleton
Barry Appleton*
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Appleton & International Lawyers in Toronto, Canada, and Washington, DC
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Investment Disputes and Nafta Chapter 11
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 95 , 2001 , pp. 196 - 198
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2001

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References

1 Higgins, Rosalyn, The Taking of Property by the State: Recent Developments in International Law, 176 Receuii. Des Cours 259 (1982)Google Scholar.

2 See Harza Engineering Co. v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 1 Iran-U.S. Cl. Trib. Rep. 499, 504 (1982).

3 See Tippets, Abbett, McCarthy, Stratton v. TAMS-AFFA Consulting Engineers of Iran, 6 Iran-US. Cl. Trib. Rep. 219, 225 (1984) ; see also Motorola, Inc. v. Iran National Airlines Co., 19 Iran-U.S. Cl. Trib. Rep. 73,95 (1988).

4 See Harza Engineering Co., 1 Iran-U.S. Cl. Trib. Rep. at 504 (1982); ITT Industries, Inc. v. Iran, 2 Iran-U.S. Cl. Trib. Rep, 348, 349 (1983); Tippets, 6 Iran-U.S. Cl. Trib. Rep. at 255 (1984).

5 Santa Elena and Costa Rica, ICSID case No. ARB/96/1/2000, Final Award (Feb. 17, 2000), para. 77, available at <http://www.worldbank.org/icsid/cases/awards.htm>; see arso Bilhoune Marine Drive Comlex, Ltd. v. Ghana Investment Centre and Government of Ghana, 95 ILR 183, 209 (1993).

6 Plurilateral treaties such as the NAFTA go even further than customary international law. See, e.g., North American Free Trade Agreement, Dec. 8-17, 1992, Can.-Mex.-U.S., reprinted in 32 ILM 605 (1993).

7 Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Canada, Interim Award (NAFTA Ch. 11 Arb. Trib., June 26, 2000), available at <http://www.dfait-maici.gc.ca/tna-nac/nafta-e.asp>.

8 Metalclad Corp. v. Mexico, ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)/97/l (Aug. 30, 2000), para. Ill, available at <http://www.naftaclaims.com>.

9 Id. para. 103.

10 For example, the Partial Award made by the NAFTA Tribunal in Re: S.D. Myers and Canada, Nov. 13, 2000, cited with approval the Pope & Talbot view on measures tantamount to expropriation. See para. 286 of the majority award, available at <http://www.appletonlaw.com>.