Articles

Gunjan Sharma has written an article in the Indian Journal of Arbitration Law.  The article, titled “The Continuing Backlash against Investor-State Arbitration may Call for the Increasing Use of Contract Terms to Protect Energy Investment”.  Please click here.

Graham Coop, Partner, together with Florentine Vos, Associate at Volterra Fietta, wrote an article entitled “Anti-satellite missile tests: What are the legal consequences?”, published by Global Military Communications.  To read the article, please click here.    

Robert Volterra, Partner, together with Gunjan Sharma, Counsel at Volterra Fietta, wrote an article on “Space Debris” that was published by The Times. The article explores how, under current international law, satellite owners may not be fully compensated for damage done by space debris. To read a copy of the article, please click here. 

Graham Coop, Partner at Volterra Fietta,  was recently credited by ThomsonReuters in relation to the publication of an article entitled “Modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty” in ThomsonReuters’ Practical Law Energy and Practical Law Arbitration series. The article is available here.      

Robert Volterra published an article with Brill, in which he reviews “The Syrian Conflict’s Impact on International Law” by Michael P. Scharf, Milena Sterio and Paul R. Williams. Robert’s article is titled “Book Review” and can be found here.

Robert Volterra contributed an article to The House, the in-house publication of the House of Commons, on the practicalities of signing a trade deal. The article, titled “Negotiating trade deals doesn’t have to take this long”, can be found here.

Volterra Fietta Partner Robert Volterra and Counsel Álvaro Nistal have published an article on GAR concerning the ground-breaking ICSID award recently issued in Interocean v. Nigeria, which addresses legal issues that are highly relevant to numerous other investor-State disputes.  The article, which can be found here, provides useful guidance on the public international law norms

This article first appeared in Petroleum Review, September 2020, published by the Energy Institute. Read the article here.  

By Robert G Volterra and Álvaro Nistal   The COVID-19 pandemic cannot properly be described as unprecedented.  In the 20th century alone, three influenza pandemics caused a total estimate of between 22 to 58 million deaths.  Similarly, several major epidemics have already marked the 21st century.  Old diseases like cholera, plague and yellow fever have

Robert Volterra and Graham Coop have contributed an article titled “Increased control of foreign investment in response to COVID-19” which can be found here.    

The Financial Times has published a podcast interview in which Robert Volterra, Partner at Volterra Fietta, discusses how governments and investors should be careful to manage disputes arising from COVID-19 regulation, so as to avoid a wave of investment treaty arbitrations. You can listen to the podcast here.

Partner Graham Coop and Counsel Álvaro Nistal were recently cited in an article titled “COVID-19 Claims May Test Tribunals With Thorny Questions”. The article, published on 30 April 2020 by Law360, can be found here.

Partner Graham Coop and Associate Maria Fogdestam-Agius published an article with Commercial Dispute Resolution, titled “Who’s at fault with the cobalt?”. To read about the repercussions of class actions against corporate end users for supply chain working conditions in the mining industry click here.

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Graham Coop and Gunjan Sharma co-authored an article in the Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration. The article, titled “Procedural Innovations to ISDS in Recent Trade and Investment Treaties: A Comparison of the USMCA and CETA” is available to read here

Graham Coop was quoted in an article in the Egypt Oil & Gas Newspaper titled “Politics, economics, and energy security: How pipeline negotiations play a key role”. Graham’s comments focused on the political connotations of pipeline negotiations, the shifting power dynamics between pipeline planning and construction and the challenges of taking all parties’ economic interests

Graham Coop co-authored a chapter on “ECT and States’ Right to Regulate” in “International Arbitration in the Energy Sector” edited by Maxi Scherer and recently published by Oxford University Press.  For further details on this text, click here.

Robert Volterra co-authored an article in the Indian Journal of Arbitration Law.  The article, titled “India and Brazil: Recent Steps Towards Host State Control in the Investment Treaty Dispute Resolution Paradigm”, is available here.

Robert Volterra authored a chapter on “The Effect of Brexit on the UK’s Trade with Non-EU Member States Under the EU’s Mixed Free Trade Agreements” in “Negotiating Brexit” by John Armour and Horst Eidenmüller and recently published by Hart Publishing. Robert’s chapter explores the status of the parties of mixed EU FTAs, and the scope of application

Robert Volterra was quoted in an article in The Financial Times titled “US oil groups feel Russia sanctions freeze more than Europeans”.  Robert’s comments focused on sanctions against Russia, and the divergence in approach between EU and US companies. The article can be accessed here.

Following Robert’s participation in the “Negotiating Brexit” conference at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford on 17 March 2017, a summary of his comments has been published on the Oxford Business Law Blog. Robert’s contribution, available here, focuses on “The Impact of Brexit on the UK’s Trade with Non-EU Member States Under the EU’s Mixed Free Trade Agreements”.