Investor-State Law Guide

Following a Dispute or Dispute Document

You can simply and effectively stay up to date with how specific decisions have been treated by subsequent investment treaty tribunals, by following the document of interest within the Dispute Document Library. Following a document will allow you to receive in-app notifications and opt-in to email notifications for when investment treaty decisions and awards have been referred to by subsequent tribunals or when a new analysis of the selected dispute document has been published.

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Following a dispute from the document library

From within the Document Library, you can follow a dispute to get notified either when new dispute documents associated with the dispute are published or when a newly published analysis of an investment treaty decision or award containing a reference to a document from the dispute is published.

To follow a dispute:

  • From the document library page, scroll to the dispute of interest
  • Select the ‘+’ icon to expand the dispute details and see all associated dispute documents
  • Open the Actions menu at the top right of the dispute card

Actions Menu

  • Click Follow Topic

The dispute has now been added to your followed topics. 

Following a dispute document from the document library

From within the Document Library you can follow a decision or award to get notified: of newly published analysis of an Investment treaty decision or award containing a reference to the dispute document; or when new analysis of the selected dispute document has been published.

There are two types of jurisprudence citator references: general references (a reference to the decision or award as a whole or “generally”) and specific references (a reference to a specific passage or paragraph of the decision or award). When following a dispute document in this way, you will receive notifications for general references to the decision or ward AND specific references to the decision or award. 

To follow a dispute document:

  • From the document library page, scroll to the dispute of interest
  • Select the ‘+’ icon to expand the dispute details and see all associated dispute documents
  • Find the dispute document you would like to follow
  • Open the Actions menu at the top right of the dispute document card
  • Click Follow Topic

Actions menu dropdown

The dispute document has now been added to your followed topics. 

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Receiving and managing your notification preferences

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