DISPUTES DIGEST

Week of February 24, 2025

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Week of February 20, 2025

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• The Updated Energy Charter Treaty aims at balancing Investment Protection and Climate Goals, here
• Legal Crossfire: How the EU Shut Down Russia’s Arbitration Blockade, here and here
• Enforcement of Arbitral Awards in Switzerland, here

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In a Tales of the Tribunal exclusive, we provide an audio version of the 32nd Wilhelm C. Vis Moot Case Problem. The same will be loaded on our forthcoming YouTube Channel.

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Track List for Vis Problem (2024-2025)

• Intro – Vis Moot Case File
• Intro 2 (The Problem Description)
  1. 00h 00m 39s
• Letter by Langweiler – July 31, 2024
  1. 00h 01m 37s
• Request for Arbitration
  1. 00h 04m 00s
• Claimant’s Exhibit 1 (CE1) – Request for Quotation, Equatoriana Ren Power
  1. 00h 32m 26s
• Claimant’s Exhibit 2 (CE2) – Purchase and Service Agreement
  1. 00h 39m 09s
• Claimant’s Exhibit 3 (CE3) – Article from Transition News
  1. 00h 51m 24s
• Claimant’s Exhibit 4 (CE4) – Email from GreenHydro dated August 26, 2023
  1. 00h 56m 19s
• Claimant’s Exhibit 5 (CE5) – Witness Statement of Poul Cavendish
  1. 00h 59m 37s
• Claimant’s Exhibit 6 (C6) – Letter from GreenHydro dated 29 February 2024
  1. 01h 11m 19s
• Claimant’s Exhibit 7 (C7) – Letter from GreenHydro dated 25 May 2024
  1. 01h 14m 09s
• FAI Letters beginning 31 July, 2024
  1. 01h 16m 14s
• Letter from Fastrack dated 14 August 2024
  1. 01h 23m 07s
• Answer to Request for Arbitration
  1. 01h 24m 37s
• Respondent Exhibit 1 (RE1) – Witness Statement of Johanna Ritter
  1. 01h 38m 10s
• Respondent Exhibit 2 (RE2) – Email from GreenHydro dated 12 July 2023
  1. 01h 46m 38s
• Respondent Exhibit 3 (RE3) – Email from GreenHydro dated 10 July 2023
  1. 01h 49m 38s
• Respondent Exhibit 4 (RE4) – Article from Vindobona Legal
  1. 01h 52m 05s
• Letter by Langweiler dated 14 August 2024 to FAI making Objection
  1. 01h 55m 22s
• Claimant’s Exhibit 9 (CE8) – Witness Statement of August Wilhelm Deiman
  1. 01h 59m 18s
• Letter by FAI dated 15 August 2024 regarding Procedure
  1. 02h 02m 48s
• Letter by FAI, dated 27 August 2024 concerning decisions of the Board
  1. 02h 07m 34s

• Letter by FAI, dated 6 September 2024 – Confirming Appointment of Arbitrators
  1. 02h 10m 57s
• Letter by FAI, beginning 20 September 2024, concerning Appointment of Presiding Arbitrator
  1. 02h 13m 06s
• Letter by Greenhouse date 27 September 2024
  1. 02h 25m 48s
• Procedural Order No. 1
  1. 02h 27m 35s
• Procedural Order No. 2
  1. 02h 34m 05s
• Outro
  1. 02h 55m 55s