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International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes: Desert Line Projects Llc V. Republic of Yemen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Eckhard R. Hellbeck
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International Legal Materials , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , February 2009 , pp. 79 - 128
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2009

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* Eckhard Hellbeck is an attorney with White & Case LLP in Washington, D.C. His practice focuses on international dispute resolution, in particular investment treaty arbitration.

* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text appearing at the text appearing at Arbitration Database website: (visited February 10, 2009)< <http://arbitration.fr/resources/ICSID-ARB-05-17.pdf>>

1 Desert Line Projects LLC v. Republic of Yemen, ICSID Case No. ARB/05/17, Award (Feb. 6, 2008), at< http://icsid.worldbank.org/ICSID/FrontServlet?requestType=CasesRH&actionVal=showDoc&docId=DC791_En&caseId=C62> [hereinafter Desert Line Award].

2 Id. ¶ 193.

3 Id. ¶ 215.

4 Id. ¶ 92.

5 Id. ¶¶ 100-01 (citing the preamble of the Oman-Yemen BIT).

6 Id. ¶ 101.

7 The Tribunal here made reference to the decisions of other ICSID tribunals interpreting the clause “according to its laws and regulations” found in the definition of the protected investment in many BITs. See Desert Line Award, supra note 1, ¶ 104 (citing Inceysa Vallisoletana S.L. v. Republic of El Salvador, ICSID Case No. ARB/03/26, Award (Aug. 2, 2006), at<http://ita.law.uvic.ca/documents/Inceysa_Vallisoletana_en_000.pdf>; Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide v. Republic of the Philippines, ICSID Case No. ARB/ 03/25, Award (Aug. 16, 2007), at< http://ita.law.uvic.ca/documents/FraportAward.pdf>).

8 Desert Line Award, supra note 1, ¶ 106.

9 Id. ¶ 119.

10 Id. ¶¶ 172-73 (citing Diffe´rend Industrie Vicentine Elettro- Mecchaniche (T.V.E.M.), 13 U.N. Rep. Int. Arb. Awards 324 (1952); Diffe´rend Wagon-Citernes, 13 U.N. Rep. Int. Arb. Awards 212 (1950); Gowen&Copeland case, in 4 John Bassett Moore, History and Digest of International Arbitrations to Which the United States Has Been a Party 3354 (1898)).

11 Desert Line Award, supra note 1, ¶ 171.

12 Id. ¶ 174.

13 Id. ¶ 181.

14 Id. ¶ 186.

15 Id. ¶ 194.

16 Id. ¶ 286.

17 Id. ¶ 289.

18 Id. ¶ 290.

19 Id. (citing Lusitania, U.S. v. Germany, Nov. 1923, 7 U.N. Rep. Int. Arb. Awards 32, 42 (1956)).