Arbitral Award, Reasoned Awards

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Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)

Most arbitration agreements in the international realm require arbitrators to produce a “reasoned” or “fully reasoned” award. However, relatively little has been written on why such awards are necessary and what constitutes a reasoned award in a legal regime that includes elements of both the common and civil law. On one level, the question of…

Argentina, BIT, Consent, ICSID Arbitration, ICSID Convention, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

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Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)

On November 17, 2014, the tribunal in Alemanni v. Argentine Republic issued its long-anticipated decision on jurisdiction and admissibility. Alemanni is the third in a series of large-scale arbitrations arising out of Argentina’s default on its sovereign debt, and the most recent decision bears some resemblance to the preliminary awards rendered in the other two…