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OF INVESTMENT DISPUTES Freeport-McMoRan Inc. v Republic of Peru (Decision on jurisdiction)

ICSID · Investment (ICSID and treaty) · International · 4 July 2022

Why it matters

OF INVESTMENT DISPUTES Freeport-McMoRan Inc. v Republic of Peru is an investment-treaty arbitration, in which a foreign investor argued that a state had fallen short of the protections it had promised under a treaty. It is dated 4 July 2022. Disputes of this kind turn on the balance between an investor's protections and a state's freedom to regulate in the public interest. The tribunal's full reasoning, and any sum awarded, are set out in the original.

Summary

This is the decision on jurisdiction in OF INVESTMENT DISPUTES Freeport-McMoRan Inc. v Republic of Peru, dated 4 July 2022. It is a published arbitration document, most often from an investment or commercial dispute, gathered into a public collection so that it can be read rather than lost from view. The matter proceeded administered by ICSID. The award is reproduced from the arbitration.org collection with that source named; the tribunal's reasoning, and any sum it ordered, are set out in the document itself.

The detail

Parties: OF INVESTMENT DISPUTES Freeport-McMoRan Inc. v Republic of Peru

Case number: See arbitration.org record

Outcome: Decision on jurisdiction. The disposition is set out in the original.

Applicable law: The applicable arbitration rules and governing law; see the original.

Issues in play: The parties' substantive dispute, resolved by arbitration rather than in the courts.

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