Reasoning with Previous Awards in International Investment Arbitration : Charles University in Prague Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2021/II/3
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Reasoning with Previous Awards in International Investment Arbitration : Charles University in Prague Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2021/II/3
Original language description
The non-existence of the stare decisis doctrine in international investment law creates a potential for development of contrasting awards articulating opposing results for fundamentally same issues. Despite the non-existence of the stare decisis doctrine, tribunals do frequently rely on previous awards in order to maintain predictability of the international investment law. Arbitrators in international disputes, however, come from different legal cultures. This cultural background possibly influences how they approach previously rendered awards and how they reason with them. In 2013, Professor Jan Komárek published a study where he distinguished two types of reasoning with previous decisions: case-bound technique and legislative technique. Professor Komárek linked the two techniques to common law and civil law culture respectively. This article applies those two general techniques to several international investment awards. By doing so, the article demonstrates that arbitrators in international treaty arbitration use both techniques when reasoning with the same awards and reaching decisions on similar matters. The article then considers whether one of the techniques is better suited than the other in leading towards a consistent case law in the environment of investment treaty arbitration.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50501 - Law
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Prague Law Working Paper Series [online]
ISSN
2336-5811
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Volume of the periodical
2021
Issue of the periodical within the volume
II
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
3
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