Following a Legal Instrument

You can simply and effectively stay up to date with newly published, relevant analysis related to a legal instrument of interest by following the instrument within the Article Citator tool. Following a legal instrument, or a particular provision within that instrument, will allow you to receive in-app notifications and email notifications when investment treaty decisions and awards have referred to the instrument or provision in question.

There are two types of instrument references: all references (any reference to the legal instrument, whether it to be the instrument as a whole or specific provision within the instrument) and specific references (a reference to a specific provision within the legal instrument).

This article contains the following topics:

Following a legal instrument
Following a specific provision within a legal instrument

Receiving and Managing Notifications
How to view your followed topics

Following a legal instrument

From within the Article Citator tool, you can follow a legal instrument to get notified when newly published analysis of an investment treaty decision or award contains a reference to the instrument.

When following a legal instrument in this way, you will receive notifications for all references to the legal instrument, including references to the instrument as a whole and to specific provisions within the legal instrument.

To follow a legal instrument:

From the Article Citator page, scroll to the legal instrument you would like to follow
Open the Actions menu at the top right of the legal instrument card

Actions Menu

Click Follow topic

Actions menu dropdown

The legal instrument has now been added to your followed topics.

Following a specific provision within a legal instrument

From within the Article Citator tool, you can follow a specific provision within a legal instrument to get notified when newly published analysis of an investment treaty decision or award contains a reference to a selected provision within the legal instrument.

To follow a specific provision within a legal instrument:

From the Article Citator page, scroll to the legal instrument you would like to follow
Select the ‘+’ icon to expand the legal instrument card
By default, below the instrument details you will see a list of all instrument provisions with references
- See ‘Getting Started with the Article Citator’ to learn more about the legal instrument card
Select See All under the provision label for the provision of interest to view the references to the provision

Provision Label Follow

Open the Actions menu within the references toolbar

Provisions Actions Menu

Click Follow Topic

Actions menu dropdown

The selected provision of the legal instrument has now been added to your followed topics.

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Receiving and Managing Notifications

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Following a Legal Instrument

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Following a legal instrument

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Following a Legal Instrument

This article contains the following topics:

Related articles:

Following a legal instrument

To follow a legal instrument:

Following a specific provision within a legal instrument

To follow a specific provision within a legal instrument:

Related Resources

Receiving and Managing Notifications

How to View your Followed Topics

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