UNCTAD 2020 Cases: 212 Investor-State Arbitration Awards

212 international arbitration cases were selected from the UNCTAD database, all rendered in favor of investors up to the end of 2020. The dataset is a 10.6 MB PDF file authored by Yachao Wang and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license on figshare. It was last updated on April 18,我们发现了一个问题。

Use Cases

• Analyze legal reasoning in awards favoring investors based on the case descriptions.
• Study the evolution of arbitration principles up to 2020 based on the temporal coverage.
• Identify common themes or arguments in successful investor claims based on the case text.

Strengths

• Contains 212 specific legal cases.
• Explicitly covers cases up to the end of 2020.
• All cases share the common outcome of being in favor of investors.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect selection bias inherent to the source and criteria.

Provenance

Source

UNCTAD database.

Collection Method

Selected cases covering both ICSID and non-ICSID awards.

Time Range

Cases up to the end of 2020.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-18 04:19:20; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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