CIL Research Associate Daniel Nicholas Pakpahan contributed a note article on the “UNCITRAL Code of Conduct for Arbitrators in International Investment Dispute Resolution, 7th December 2023, OXIO 766” published in Oxford International Organizations, Oxford University Press. This article reports on the background, content, and impact of the adoption of the UNCITRAL Code of Conduct for Arbitrators in International Investment Dispute Resolution (‘Code’), an instrument the text of which has been prepared by and adopted in the framework of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group III: Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform. Of relevance to the law of international organisations and investor-state arbitration, the article analyses the design of the Code as a non-binding instrument and the consequences resulting therefrom, as well as the institutional dynamics between UNCITRAL and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in their collaboration for the development of the Code.

CIL has been an official observer to Working Group III since 2017.