Digest of ICSID Awards and Decisions: 2003-2007

Richard Happ is a German-trained Attorney (Rechtsanwalt) in Hamburg/Germany. He specialises in international arbitration and public international law. He advises and represents both states and investors in investment disputes, is frequently appointed as an expert witness and also serves as an arbitrator.Trained in the United States, Noah Rubins is a Partner within Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's international arbitration and public international law practice groups in Paris. He frequently advises investors and states in investment arbitration cases, and also serves as an arbitrator in both investment and commercial arbitration proceedings.

• PART I: ICSID DECISIONS 2003-2007; PART II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ICSID JURISPRUDENCE FROM 2003-2007

Given the increasing number of awards, and the typical length of awards of 80-250 pages, the task for the practitioner or scholar who seeks to keep abreast of the jurisprudence is daunting. It is this need that the Happ and Rubins volume admirably fulfils, providing in a single location 96 awards over the stated six-year period.In the writer's view, there are few persons seriously interested in investor-state arbitration, whether experienced lawyers and arbitrators, neophytes or academics, who would not benefit from having this volume available for consultation.