
International Arbitration in Latin America: Energy and Natural Resources Disputes

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International Arbitration in Latin America is a pioneering book furnishing a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of critical issues arising from energy and natural resources contracts and disputes in the region, covering a wide range of procedural, substantive, and socio-legal issues. Energy projects in Latin America are a major contributor to economic growth worldwide. This book also sheds light on how states have shifted from passive business partners to more active controlling players.
What’s in this book:
This detailed book focuses on the entire Latin American region and elucidates the extensive treatment and examination of arbitration practice particularities, including arbitrability, public order, enforcement, and the complex public-private nature of energy transactions. Penned down by the most experienced and respected arbitration practitioners in the energy and arbitration market, the book explicates the following issues and topics:
- state-owned entities as co-investors or contracting parties;
- role of environmental law, indigenous rights and public participation;
- issues related to political changes, corruption, and quantification of damages;
- climate change, renewable energy, and the energy transition;
- force majeure, hardship, and price reopeners;
- arbitration in the electricity sector;
- take-or-pay contracts;
- recognition and enforcement of awards;
- tension between stabilization clauses and human rights;
- mediation as a method for dispute settlement in the energy and natural resources sector; and
- different comparative approaches taken by national courts in key Latin American jurisdictions.
The book also highlights the impact of COVID-19 on the arbitration process, emerging laws, political circumstances’ changes, global economic trends in the oil & gas market, the energy transition, and the rise of new technologies.
How this will help you:
This remarkable book will prove invaluable to in-house lawyers, government officials, academics, and the rest of the arbitration community involved in international arbitration with a particular interest in the energy and natural resources sector.
Publish Date | 04/23/2021 |
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Product Line | Kluwer Law International |
ISBN | 9789041199720 |
SKU | 10063680-0002 |
Editors
Contributors
Foreword
Part I
Actors, Procedural and Substantive Issues
CHAPTER 1
States as International Actors in Energy and Natural Resources Disputes: The Latin-American Experience
Mélida N. Hodgson & Pablo Garrido Cardozo
CHAPTER 2
Complex Procedural Issues Arising from Energy and Natural Resources Disputes
Eduardo Zuleta-Jaramillo & Rafael Rincón-Ordóñez & Juan Ignacio Guerra-Toro
CHAPTER 3
Complex Substantive Issues Arising from Energy and Natural Resources Disputes
Eduardo Damião Gonc¸alves, Flávio Spaccaquerche Barbosa & Caio Gabra & Ana Clara Nascimento
Part II
Sector-by-Sector Analysis
CHAPTER 4
Petroleum Contracts, Applicable Laws and Lex Petrolea in Latin America
Enrique A. Jaramillo & Marlon M. Meza-Salas
CHAPTER 5
Gas and Liquefied Natural Gas Disputes in Latin America, Issues of Force Majeure, Hardship, and Price Reopeners
Emmanuel E. Kaufman & Sofia Svinkovskaya
CHAPTER 6
International Investment Arbitration in the Latin-American Electricity Sector
Alvaro Galindo & Catalina Echeverri
CHAPTER 7
Renewable Energy Arbitration in Latin America
John Adam
Part III
Relevant Issues Affecting the Outcome of an Energy Dispute
CHAPTER 8
Corruption in Energy and Natural Resources Investment Disputes in Latin America
Mélanie Riofrio Piché & Patricia Saiz
CHAPTER 9
Damages in Energy and Natural Resources Arbitrations in Latin America
Noiana Marigo & Michael Seelhof
CHAPTER 10
Recognition and Enforcement of National and International Arbitration Awards in Latin America: Energy and Natural Resources Disputes
Adrián Magallanes & Montserrat Manzano & Claus Von Wobeser
Part IV
A Particular Zoom into the Brazilian Practice
CHAPTER 11
Arbitration in Brazilian-Related Energy and Natural Resources Disputes
Felipe V. Sperandio
CHAPTER 12
Disputes in the Brazilian Electricity Market
Renato Stephan Grion
CHAPTER 13
Take-or-Pay Contracts in Project Finance: Focus on Gas-Supply Contracts in Brazil
Peter Christian Sester
Part V
Lessons, Reflections and Social Justice in Energy and Natural Resources Disputes
CHAPTER 14
Three Notable Issues from the Venezuela Experience
Hugh Carlson & Anton Chaevitch & Liz Snodgrass
CHAPTER 15
Intimate Enemies: Are Stabilization Clauses and Human Rights Compatible under International Law?
Fabio Núñez del Prado & Eugenia Simo García & José Ignacio García Cueto
CHAPTER 16
Measuring Public Participation in International Investment Treaty Law: A Study of the Latin American Extractive Industries
Gloria M. Alvarez & Ilias Kazeem
CHAPTER 17
Enabling Frameworks for Energy Investment in Latin America: A Global Perspective
Ernesto Bonafé
Part VI
The Energy Transition and Climate Change in International Arbitration
CHAPTER 18
Achieving Latin America’s Energy Transition: Looking into the Roles of International Arbitration and Dispute Avoidance
Eric Franco & Alejandra Verdera
CHAPTER 19
Climate Change and International Arbitration in Latin America
Daniela Páez-Salgado & Emily Westphalen
Part VII
Mediation in the Energy Sector
CHAPTER 20
Mediation in the Energy and Natural Resources Sector: The Latin-American Experience
Fernando Navarro & Joe Tirado
Concluding Thoughts on the Energy Arbitration in Latin America
Mélanie Riofrio Piché & Celia Cañete & Gloria M Alvarez