Professor of Public International Law @UCLLaws. Member 🇺🇳 International Law Commission. Also @UNECE_Water @EURightsAgency @CILDialogues
Mar 14, 2019 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
The great minds of international law @philippesands@PietEeckhout@Lorand_Bartels@usualcaveat have already weighed in on the law of treaties on fundamental change of circumstances. I have nothing more to contribute on substance but do want to add a historical wrinkle. 1/n
For the last 150 years, the UK has been a great – greatest? -- opponent of the doctrine of fundamental change of circumstances. Three examples: 2/n
Sep 10, 2018 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
As always, very impressive, a real public service. If I could be contrarian for a bit, Chevron v Ecuador is, in boring formalist PIL terms, almost entirely unexciting, if with some smaller points of interest:
As per the Tribunal, Ecuador cannot simultaneously (via its courts) say that Chevron has an investment, and then object in investment arbitration that it does not. Seems prima facie plausible but raises a number of technical points.
