Submissions and additional research material

Multilateral advisory centre

• ITA: Proposal for an ISDS Advisory Centre: Survey on the Non-State Observers' Contribution to an ISDS Advisory Centre
• IAI/ILI: Note on the costs and financing of an Advisory Centre on International Investment Law | Apuntes sobre los costos y financiamiento de un Centro de Asesoría en Derecho Internacional de las Inversiones | Note sur les coûts et le financement d’un Centre consultatif en Droit International des Investissements

Stand-alone review or appellate mechanism

• Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences – Comments on Appellate mechanism and Enforcement Issues
• Corporate Counsel International Arbitration Group and the United States Council for International Business - Comments: Appointment of Arbitrators, Appellate Mechanism, and Enforcement 

Standing first instance and appeal investment court, with full-time judges

• Europa-Institut, Saarland University: Draft Statute of the Multilateral Investment Court
• EFILA: Ensuring the Effective Recognition and Enforcement of MIC Decisions
• EFILA: Ensuring Equitable Access to All Stakeholders: Critical Suggestions for the MIC

ISDS tribunal members' selection appointment and challenge

• PCA/CPA: Mechanisms for selection and appointment of presiding arbitrators or sole arbitrators | Mécanismes de sélection et de nomination des arbitres-présidents et des arbitres uniques 
• OECD: Appointing Authorities and the Selection of Arbitrators in ISDS with consultation paper and compilation of comments

Treaty Parties' involvement and control mechanisms on treaty interpretation

• APEC: Handbook on Obligations in International Investment Treaties, APEC, Produced for the Australian Government

Strengthening of dispute settlement mechanisms other than arbitration 

• Energy Charter Secretariat: Investment mediation and dispute prevention

• Secrétariat de la Charte de l’énergie: Médiation d'investissement et prévention des différends
• Секретариат Энергетической хартии: Инвестиционная медиация и предотвращение споров
• Submission of the Western Balkans region: Dispute prevention and alternative dispute settlement
• Submission of ILI: Proposed Guide on ISDS Management

Exhaustion of local remedies

• SECO/CIDS: Study commissioned by the Swiss Confederation’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) to the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement (CIDS): Investor-State Dispute Settlement and National Courts

Multiple proceedings, reflective loss and counterclaims by respondent States

• CCIAG: Submission by the Corporate Counsel International Arbitration Group (CCIAG) to UNCITRAL Working Group III on Shareholder Claims for Reflective Loss
• OECD: Investment Treaties and Shareholder Claims: Analysis of Treaty Practice
• OECD: Investment Treaties as Corporate Law: Shareholder Claims and Issues of Consistency
• OECD: Investment Treaties and Shareholder Claims for Reflective Loss: Insights from Advanced Systems of Corporate Law
• OECD: Presentation on claims for reflective loss under investment treaties

Third-party funding

• CCSI/IIED/IISD Joint Submission: Draft Text Providing for Transparency and Prohibiting Certain Forms of Third-Party Funding in Investor-State Dispute Settlement

Implementation of the reforms: mutilateral instrument on ISDS reform

• CCSI/CAROLA/Harrison Institute for Public Law: Reforming the International Investment Regime through a Framework Convention on Investment and Sustainable Development
• CIDS research paper on whether the Mauritius Convention can serve as a model for further reforms
• CIDS supplemental report

General and cross-cutting issues

• Academic Forum: The Human Rights Remedy Gap in ISDS – The Potential of the Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights Arbitration 
• 2020 QMUL-CCIAG Survey: Investors’ Perceptions of ISDS
• Submission by the Miami International Arbitration Society (MIAS) to UNCITRAL Working Group III
• Submission by the Corporate Counsel International Arbitration Group (CCIAG) to UNCITRAL Working Group III
• Communication du Corporate Counsel International Arbitration Group (CCIAG) au Groupe de travail III de la CNUDCI
• Submission by the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) to the UNCITRAL Working Group No. III on ISDS Reforms with Respect to the Note by the Secretariat A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.168 on Advisory Centre
• CCSI/IIED/IISD Joint Submission: Draft Treaty Language - Withdrawal of Consent to Arbitrate and Termination of International Investigation Agreements
• CCSI/IIED/IISD Joint Submission: Third Party Rights in Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Options for Reform
• CCSI/IIED/IISD Joint Submission: Shaping the Reform Agenda: Concerns Identified and Cross-Cutting Issues
• ClientEarth: Aligning the Objectives of UNCITRAL Working Group III with States' International Obligations to Combat Climate Change
• Public Citizen: Recommendations for UNCITRAL ISDS Discussions
• Progress report to UNCITRAL 52nd session (16 July 2019, Vienna): Remarks from the Chair of the Working Group 
• UN Special Procedures Mandate Holders' Letter to UNCITRAL WG III on ISDS Reform  (English / French / Spanish)
• Statement of the G77 and China at the 36th Working Group III session
• PCA: Duration and Cost of State-State Arbitration Proceedings
• G77
• Friends of the Earth International
• Transport & Environment
• CCSI
• T&E, CIEL, ClientEarth, SOMO -  Reform options for ISDS
• EFILA
• ICSID: Overview of Rules Amendment Presentation
• OECD working paper on ISDS: A scoping paper for the investment policy community
• OECD working paper on international investment: Adjudicator Compensation Systems and Investor-State Dispute Settlement
• UNCTAD: IIA issues note - Special update on ISDS Settlement: facts and figures
• UNCTAD: IIA issues note - Improving Investment Dispute Settlement: UNCTAD Policy Tools
• IBA: Consistency, efficiency and transparency in investment treaty arbitration 
• RTA Exchange (ICTSD and IDB): Cutting the Gordian Knot: Investment Dispute Settlement à la Carte

For more research material see the bibliography related to investor-State dispute settlement reform.