Nwamaka R. Okany

🇪🇺 Commission calls on Member States to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty
energy.ec.europa.eu/news/january...

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👉 TDM ECT Specials:
1️⃣ Article 26 www.transnational-dispute-management.com/journal-brow...
2️⃣ #ECT www.transnational-dispute-management.com/journal-brow...

On the arbitration between the UK and Rwanda: the treaty signed between the UK and Rwanda in Art. 22 provides for disputes to go to the Joint Committee, if that doesn't work after 21 days there's 21 days of consultations and then the possibility to arbitrate under PCA rules.

I'm actually a bit surprised at the lawsuit since the agreement, as far as I know, is a MOU. Perhaps a reminder that the title of an int'l agreement says nothing about its legally binding nature?

Ah - the MoU was replaced by a treaty. But I for one thought it was one weird MoU

I'm actually a bit surprised at the lawsuit since the agreement, as far as I know, is a MOU. Perhaps a reminder that the title of an int'l agreement says nothing about its legally binding nature?

Text of the national court questions, full text in the link

CJEU, tech law

Request from a national court to interpret the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, for the first time AFAIK - concerns use of AI re an expert court report eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

📢 Young-OGEMID Seminar on Global Voices from the South: Rethinking Engagement with #ISDS
🗓 February 2026 (Starts Feb 16th)
🔗 www.transnational-dispute-management.com/young-ogemid...

🔴 Cecilia Azar
🔴 Funke Adekoya, SAN
🔴 Mairée Uran Bidegain
🔴 Professor Julien Chaisse

💬 Moderators: Aayushi Singh

PanAfrican Energy Tanzania v #Tanzania and Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation #ICSID Case No. ARB/25/44
December 17, 2025 - Further to the parties' agreement, the Secretary-General issues a procedural order taking note of the discontinuance ...
icsid.worldbank.org/cases/case-d...

Give peace a billion Kenya’s president wants more money – for multinational security interventions – but not from the usual donors.

At the African Union-European Union summit in Luanda last week, Kenyan President William Ruto urged his peers to shun charity, but also proposed increasing the continent’s Peace Fund to $1-billion. It currently sits at about $610-million.

Zelenskyy says Ukraine won’t cede territory to Russia The Ukrainian president ruled out territorial concessions amid talks with European leaders in London.

Zelenskyy says Ukraine won’t cede territory to Russia

Quote: “The subsequent ‘win’ by almost 98% of the vote amounts to illegitimate retention of government power similar in effect to a coup.”

Tanzania’s 🇹🇿 2025 vote reveals how power can be secured without a military coup.

EDWARD KAHUTHIA MURIMI (@acil-uva.bsky.social) on why the African Union must see rigged elections as unconstitutional rule.

verfassungsblog.de/african-unio...

Quote: “The Commission’s proposal may be defensible under international and European law, though it remains on precarious legal ground.”

The EU’s proposed Reparations Loan – using immobilised Russian assets to support Ukraine – raises major legal and financial questions.

PETER VAN ELSUWEGE analyses the risks, Belgium’s objections, and what’s at stake ahead of the December European Council.

verfassungsblog.de/on-the-legal...

The NAFTA-math: Kinnear looks at Chapter 11's legacy  In the 40th Freshfields lecture, Meg Kinnear spoke about the aftermath and legacy of NAFTA Chapter 11, the

"NAFTA passed away on July 1st 2020, at the age of 26. But not before it changed the international investment law landscape forever":
The Legacy of NAFTA's Chapter 11 @GARalerts
globalarbitrationreview.com/article/the-...

Is the use of military force by external powers to restore democracy abroad legal under int'l law? Has ECOWAS acquired a lex specialis right to intervene militarily to halt democratic backsliding in a country? Engaging analysis by J.Niyo in @AJIL_andUnbound www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

COP30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Arbitration and the Rule of Law
🗓 2 Dec
🌐 @qmul.bsky.social
🔗 www.transnational-dispute-management.com/news/2025-12...

🔴 Sir Robin Knowles CBE, Dr Crina Baltag
🔵 Sir Bernard Eder, Peter Griffin, Hilary Heilbron KC, Wendy Miles KC, Khawar Qureshi KC
🔴 Dr C. Baltag, Robert Price
🔵 C. Pereira, B. Leon

What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.

Sanctions and access to justice - a Russian lawyer's perspective: Jacomijn Haersolte-van Hof, Vladimir Khvalei and others debate at GAR Live London, 15 October
globalarbitrationreview.com/article/russ...

Interesting (and timely!) topic on the agenda today at the #KNVIR - State Immunity in Civil Proceedings - comparative analysis (with Legaltree's Max van Leyenhorst speaking on immunity from execution) knvir.org