The IAI Working Groups were first launched by Professor Emmanuel Gaillard as a platform to discuss, research and provide recommendations and normative proposals to the international arbitration community on various topics of interest. The IAI plays a key role in identifying, restating and developing norms of international arbitration law to ensure that international arbitration meets the expectations of users and stakeholders as a predictable, efficient, legitimate, autonomous and truly international form of dispute resolution.

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Working Group 1 was established in 2019 under the leadership of Professors Nicolas Angelet and Benjamin Rémy and began its work in 2019.

The Working Group prepared a Note to estimate the costs of establishing and operating an Advisory Centre on International Investment Law  that provides assistance to States in handling treaty-based investor-State disputes and to identify possible sources of finance for the Centre’s operation. This Note was submitted to UNCITRAL.

Prof. Nicolas Angelet & Prof. Benjamin Rémy 

1: Financing States in Investor-State Arbitrations

Working Group 2 was established in December 2022 under the leadership of Judge Dominique Hascher and began to conduct its work in February 2023. 

This Working Group assesses the extent to which international rules that are specific to international arbitration exist and operate at various stages of the arbitral process, provides key examples and illustrations, and promotes the application of such rules by judges, arbitrators, and arbitration practitioners.

2: Why does international arbitration need international arbitration rules?

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