"Investor-State LawGuideTM enables you to utilize a methodical approach when researching investment treaty arbitration jurisprudence and provides an efficient means to improve the comprehensiveness of your research:"
A really useful and broad database which allows searching of the text of various important doctrines in International Commercial Arbitration, sometimes even in different years of enactment, it is a comprehensive tool.
The information provided here is to give the user a glimpse of the available items within the website and the ability to easily navigate to them without finding each respective treaty on the world wide web.
"Navigate through an electronic directory of investment treaty law that lays out subjects in branches and sub-branches of ever increasing detail."
Allows the user to browse subjects alphabetically or search within the index.
"Instantly see how specific legal instruments relevant to investment treaty law have been interpreted by investment treaty arbitral tribunals."
Allows the user to keyword search or browse by Arbitration Rules, International Treaties & Rules, Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITS), Free Trade Agreements (FTAS), NAFTA, Regional/Sectoral Agreements, and Other.
"Instantly see how decisions and awards have been treated by subsequent investment treaty arbitral tribunals."
Allows the user to search for a particular award or decision, or by three categories of citator: NAFTA Jurisprudence, Investment Treaty Jurisprudence, and by Non-Investment Treaty Jurisprudence.
"Examine how terms and phrases contained in treaty texts have been elaborated upon by investment treaty arbitral tribunals."
Allows the user to search by explicit definition of terms or phrases, can browse by letter, or alphabetically.
"Search the entire document collection (i.e., all documents listed under the Treaties & Rules and Dispute Documents tabs) by a term or phrase."
"Browse the text of all legal instruments relevant to investment treaty law in both XML and PDF formats.
Keyword search investment treaties, arbitration rules and other instrument, or by arbitration rules, International Treaties & Rules, Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITS), Free Trade Agreements (FTAS), NAFTA, Regional/Sectoral Agreements, and Other.
"View and filter all publicly available investment treaty decisions and awards."
Keyword search for a particular dispute document, or filter by Applicable Treaty, Respondent State, Applicable Rules, Document Language. Browsing also available, however, the document must be publicly available