INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE

Amici are professors of law and lawyers currently or previously engaged in the field of international arbitration, whose work (as counsel, arbitrators, or scholarly commentators) has included the arbitration of investment disputes under bilateral or multilateral investment treaties.1

The primary interest of amici is in the orderly operation of investment treaty arbitration, a system of international dispute resolution that has become an important component of international commerce. Amici believe that the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, by substituting a de novo interpretation of a treaty between two sovereign states for that of the arbitrators, could seriously disrupt the established system for resolving threshold issues in this type of arbitration.