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The History of ICSID. By Antonio R. Parra. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. lii, 436. Index. $140, £75.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Monique Sasson
Monique Sasson*
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Institute for Transnational Arbitration
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 107 , Issue 4 , October 2013 , pp. 980 - 984
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References

1 Schreuer, Christoph H., With Malintoppi, Loretta, Reinisch, August, & Sinclair, Anthony, The ICSID Convention: A commentary (2d ed. 2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 The doctrine, intended to restrict diplomatic protection, advocates nonintervention and “the absolute equality of foreigners with nationals, who could seek redress for grievances only from the local authorities” (p. 55).

3 Bolivia denounced the Convention in 2007; Ecuador in 2010; Venezuela in 2012. See ICSID, List of Contracting States and Other Signatories of the Convention (May 20, 2013), at https://icsid.worldbank.org/ICSID/ FrontServlet?requestType=ICSIDDocRH&actionVal=Contractingstates&ReqFrom=Main).

4 Tokios Tokelés v. Ukraine, Procedural Order, ICSID No. ARB/02/18 (July 1, 2003), 11 ICSID REP. 310 (2007).

5 Indeed, Parra also does not comment on whether the quality of ICSID awards has risen in the later period or whether public international law scholars have produced more satisfactory ICSID decisions than arbitrators who have derived most of their experience in the commercial arbitration field.

6 See Kaufmann-Kohler, Gabrielle, Annulment of ICSID Awards in Contract and Treaty Arbitrations: Are There Differences? in Annulment of Icsid Awards 189, 221 (Gaillard, Emmanuel & Banifatemi, Yas eds., 2004)Google Scholar.