Symposium on International Investment Law & Contemporary Crises – Part 1 of 8
What Empirical Trends Suggest about the Future of the Field

To mark the anniversary of the BIICL (British Institute of International and Comparative Law) and Comparative Law’s landmark empirical study on investment protection in global banking and finance, AHALI Dispute Resolution is proud to launch an eight-part online symposium with Opinio Juris.

In this opening contribution, Arif Hyder Ali and Christine Carpenter introduce the Report’s key findings—drawn from 149 publicly available banking and finance ISDS cases—and explore what the data reveals about:

- How financial crises drive investment disputes
- The real-world strength and limits of treaty protections
- State regulatory powers during periods of economic emergency
- What recent global turbulence may mean for the next wave of disputes

With crises from Argentina to Greece historically clustering around investment claims—and a typical three-year lag from breach to filing—the post-Covid financial landscape may signal a new cycle of cases.

Empirical evidence suggests that investment protections in the financial sector are meaningful—but far from absolute. The balance between investor rights and State regulatory authority remains central to the future of the system.

Read the introduction here: https://lnkd.in/e7Afxtbm