I will present on the above topic at the monthly meeting of the International Law Research group (kokusaiho kenkyukai) on Saturday 26 September 2026 1.15-3pm at the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law (Building No 3) – the day before I return to the University of Sydney to work a year before my next six-month stint annually in Tokyo on tenured cross-appointment. The paper will be published this year in a special issue of the Griffith Law Review, freely available in Open Access, with the [slighted edited] Abstract below and and summary powerpoints available here:
Abstract: This article outlines Australia’s renewed stance against investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) arbitration in international investment agreements (IIAs) (Part 2). This intensifies the Labor Government’s anti-ISDS position over 2011-13, mirrored by New Zealand’s Labour Government over 2017-2023. Concerns have also been raised in Europe over the last 10-15 years about ISDS procedures and IIAs, as developed economies experienced inbound ISDS claims. From 2015, the European Union (EU) promoted an investment court alternative. Part 3 examines experiences in significant economies in Asia, with net or large outbound stocks of foreign direct investment (FDI) that typically favour the stronger IIA provisions, and net FDI-importing economies. Most remain open to agreeing to ISDS, while agreeing to an investment court in IIAs with the EU. Part 4 details antipodean negotiations with the EU, and two mega-regional treaties involving also Southeast Asia [with RCEP including Japan] where ISDS is subject to ongoing work programs. Part 5 concludes that Australia and New Zealand have an opportunity to join with some Asian states [including potentially Japan] in seriously considering an investment court alternative to traditional ISDS, or at least key features thereof, as a more sustainable compromise way forward to concluding balanced trade and investment agreements regionally and even multilaterally.
Keywords: international investment law, arbitration, ISDS, Australasia, Asia, European Union
第４５２回東大国際法研究会
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（日時）２０２６年９月２６日（土）１３：１５～
（場所）東京大学法学部研究室（法学部3号館）203会議室、及びZoomによるハイブリッド形式
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（報告者・題目） Luke Nottage 氏（東京大学／シドニー大学） “Evolving Antipodean, Asian and European Ambivalence Around ISDS Arbitration: A Compromise Way Forward?”
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