Martin Jarrett
About/Bio
Martin Jarrett is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. His research profile focuses on international investment law, particularly the topic of investor misconduct. He is the author of Contributory Fault and Investor Misconduct in Investment Arbitration, published by Cambridge University Press.
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Germany’s Trusteeship over Gazprom Germania: A Brewing Expropriation Claim?
June 6, 2022
Martin Jarrett
Background If it were not so serious, it would be funny: In March 2022, the part-time DJ and fledgling YouTuber Dmitry Tseplyaev (purportedly) became the ultimate controller of Gazprom’s gas-distribution network and gas-storage facilities in Germany. The German authorities did not see any humour in this situation. On 4 April 2022, they imposed…
New Options for Investor Accountability in ISDS
ISDS emerged in the twentieth century to empower foreign investors to assert legal claims against host states without the intervention of their home state. But this understanding of international investment law (IIL) – investor rights and host state duties – is now a relic of the past. Yet because of their current asymmetrical nature, ISDS and IIL do…
Popular articles by Martin Jarrett
Germany’s Trusteeship over Gazprom Germania: A Brewing Expropriation Claim?
June 6, 2022
Martin Jarrett
Background If it were not so serious, it would be funny: In March 2022, the part-time DJ and fledgling YouTuber Dmitry Tseplyaev (purportedly) became the ultimate controller of Gazprom’s gas-distribution network and gas-storage facilities in Germany. The German authorities did not see any humour in this situation. On 4 April 2022, they imposed…
New Options for Investor Accountability in ISDS
ISDS emerged in the twentieth century to empower foreign investors to assert legal claims against host states without the intervention of their home state. But this understanding of international investment law (IIL) – investor rights and host state duties – is now a relic of the past. Yet because of their current asymmetrical nature, ISDS and IIL do…