Time-Bar Defenses in Enforcement Proceedings: Analyzing the Rusoro Decision by the Paris Court of Appeals

摘要

Venezuela's 2011 nationalization of its gold-mining industry resulted in three arbitral awards, all grounded in the Canada-Venezuela Bilateral Investment Treaty and rendered by tribunals constituted according the ICSID Additional Facility, a set of arbitration, conciliation and fact-finding rules for parties that fall outside of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes' Convention.